John Seery (born 1941) is an American artist who is associated with the

lyrical abstraction Lyrical abstraction arose from either of two related but distinct art movement, trends in Post-war Modernist painting: * European ''Abstraction Lyrique'': a movement that emerged in Paris, with the French art critic Jean José Marchand being cr ...

movement.
retrieved June 2, 2010 He was born in

Maspeth, New York Maspeth is a residential and commercial community in the Borough (New York City), borough of Queens in New York City. It was founded in the early 17th century by Dutch and English settlers. Neighborhoods sharing borders with Maspeth are Woodside ...

, was raised in

Flushing, Queens Flushing is a neighborhood in the north-central portion of the New York City Borough (New York City), borough of Queens. The neighborhood is the fourth-largest central business district in New York City. Downtown Flushing is a major commercial ...

and as a teen, moved to

Cincinnati, Ohio Cincinnati ( ; colloquially nicknamed Cincy) is a city in Hamilton County, Ohio, United States, and its county seat. Settled in 1788, the city is located on the northern side of the confluence of the Licking River (Kentucky), Licking and Ohio Ri ...

Biography

He studied at

Miami University Miami University (informally Miami of Ohio or simply Miami) is a public university, public research university in Oxford, Ohio, United States. Founded in 1809, it is the second-oldest List of colleges and universities in Ohio, university in Ohi ...

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, from 1959 to 1963 then continued his studies at the

Art Academy of Cincinnati The Art Academy of Cincinnati is a private college of art and design in Cincinnati, Ohio. It was founded as the McMicken School of Design in 1869, and was a department of the University of Cincinnati, and later in 1887, became the Art Academy ...

and

Ohio State University The Ohio State University (Ohio State or OSU) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Columbus, Ohio, United States. A member of the University System of Ohio, it was founded in 1870. It is one ...

Columbus Columbus is a Latinized version of the Italian surname "''Colombo''". It most commonly refers to: * Christopher Columbus (1451–1506), the Italian explorer * Columbus, Ohio, the capital city of the U.S. state of Ohio * Columbus, Georgia, a city i ...

. He was on the faculty of the

Massachusetts College of Art and Design Massachusetts College of Art and Design, branded as MassArt, is a public college of visual and applied art in Boston, Massachusetts. Founded in 1873, it is one of the nation's oldest art schools, and the only publicly funded independent art sch ...

Boston Boston is the capital and most populous city in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States. The city serves as the cultural and Financial centre, financial center of New England, a region of the Northeas ...

and was a visiting lecturer at

Harvard University Harvard University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1636 and named for its first benefactor, the History of the Puritans in North America, Puritan clergyma ...

during the 1980s. He currently lives in Florida.

Public collections

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York The Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, CA Museum Of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale, FL Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, Wisconsin Picker Art Gallery, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio Honolulu Academy of Art, Honolulu, HI Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio Julius Baer Art Collection, Switzerland

References

Sources

* Brandl, Mark Staff, ''John Seery'', Richterswil, Kunsthaus Richterswil, 1998. * Galerie Andre Emmerich and

Peter Schjeldahl Peter Charles Schjeldahl (; March 20, 1942 – October 21, 2022) was an American art critic, poet, and educator. He was noted for being the head art critic at ''The New Yorker'', having earlier written for ''The Village Voice'', ''ARTnews'', and ...

, ''John Seery: Paintings'', Zurich March, 1975. * The

Madison Art Center The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art (MMoCA), formerly known as the Madison Art Center, is an independent, non-profit art museum located in downtown Madison, Wisconsin. MMoCA is dedicated to exhibiting, collecting, and preserving modern and c ...

, ''John Seery: Paintings'', Madison, Wisconsin Madison Art Center, 1974.

External links

John Seery at the National Gallery of Australia

Interview with John Seery 2010, Whitewall Magazine
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