John Vokoun
Biography:
A child of the personal computer era, John Vokoun has been fascinated with the computer as an art medium since he attended programming camp at age 9. From his first green and black CRT drawings on an Apple II to his present-day interaction with a variety of computerized machines, the computer’s influence on his work is only matched by the color field paintings of Albers, Itten, Kelly, and Rothko. With computer data and geometry, he seeks to channel the chaos of the Information Age into simple forms. Founder of Fire Dragon Color, a fine art printing company that has helped produce numerous award-winning books, Vokoun resides in Santa Fe, New Mexico. His work has shown at William Siegal Gallery and recently exhibited at the New Mexico Museum of Art.
Résumé:
Born 1976, St. Louis, Missouri
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2016 John Vokoun: Alcoves Exhibition
New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2015 Linear Functions
William Siegal Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2014 Elements of Duplicity
Art Santa Fe, New Mexico
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2016 Drawn That Way
Offroad Productions Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2015 Renaissance Pixels
AHA Progressive Arts Fair, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2005 Tangents
Read Johnson Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1998 Composite Manipulations
Bingham Gallery, Columbia, Missouri
1997 Negative Space
Cecille R. Hunt Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri
AWARDS / HONORS / RESIDENCIES
2016 Artist-in-residence, National Parks Art Foundation
Chaco Canyon National Park, New Mexico
2006-current Founder/Owner of Fire Dragon Color, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Prepress and production for dozens of award-winning art books,
including: Ed Moses; Donald Judd; Al Taylor; 112 Greene Street
GUEST LECTURER
2016 Symbolism and Meaning
Chaco Canyon National Park, New Mexico
2016 Artist Talk: Automorphic Form, Alcoves Exhibition
New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2005 Fractured Nature: A 10-year project on artifacts of technology
Marion Center, Santa Fe, New Mexico
PUBLICATIONS
Farmington Times, December 2016. “National parks art program ends first year,” Mike
Easterling.
Pasatiempo, “Alcoves 16/17 #4 at the New Mexico Museum of Art,” Michael
Abatemarco.
TREND Magazine, September 2015. “1s + 0s = Art: John Vokoun bends corrupted
digital data into fields of wondrous color,” Devon Jackson.
THE Magazine, August 2015. “John Vokoun: Linear Functions,” Jon Carver.
Pasatiempo, October 2014. “Full Spectrum: John Vokoun takes data to new places,”
Michael Abatemarco.
EDUCATION
1999 BFA, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri