“Every person is a unique and autonomous person, and actually, considered independently, the greatest artwork of all time… ~ Thomas Bernhard
John Walter is a Brooklyn based artist and actor. He was born in Troy N.Y. and moved to New York City in 1982. He moved there for its beautiful madness and man-made canyons, not to mention it’s incredible night club scene (at that time). He worked the doors of many of the downtown clubs and began acting and modeling. He appeared in GQ and several other magazines. John made his Off-Broadway debut playing the best man in the hit show Tony n’ Tina’s Wedding. He has also appeared in several short films, a few features and a handful of television shows. John started painting around 15 years ago on an epiphanic whim and hasn’t stopped since. His art is a channeling of the constant stream of signs and images that the city relentlessly throws at him. His small scale pieces are like bite sized chunks of the madness made palpable through humor. His work is often inspired by language and symbols which strive to give us just the brute facts, and often fail, sometimes miserably and comically. The frequent use of black and white lends a certain austerity and noise reducing relief to our current condition. John’s application of text in his pieces draws from his philosophy that words are images and images are words.
John has exhibited his work at galleries in Brooklyn & Manhattan, and recently worked on an exclusive project for Moncler (New York and L.A.).