JOHN WILTON
JOHN WILTON
ARTIST
Painting
Collage
Digital Art
Photography
Sculpture
Video
My initial influences came from American Pop Art, particularly the appropriated and serially
repeated images from popular culture.
I take those banal, commercial sources and use
digital technologies and traditional painterly
techniques to transform them into
something resembling high art.
Consequently, my process mixes several mediums,
as well as stylistic conventions, even within
a single work. In addition to painterly
handling, there are machine-generated
patterns, apparent repetitions, and
abstract forms in combination with
sleek photographic stereotypes.
This free-association collage of anonymous digital precision and hand-crafted, painterly
expressiveness underscores the abrupt shifts
of context evident in most contemporary art,
to say nothing of those we encounter
in our own lives.