John Vokoun
Exhibitions —
David Richard Gallery
Horizons / Structures, Solo exhibition, 2017
New Mexico Museum of ARt
Alcoves, Invitational Exhibition, 2016
Wlliam Siegal Gallery
Liniar Funcations, solo, 2015
ARt Santa Fe
Elements of Duplicity, 2014
Honors —
ARTiST IN RESIDENCE
Chaco Canyon National Park, 2016
ARTiST Talk
New Mexico Museum of Art, 2016
ARTiST Lecture
Marion Center, Santa fe, NM, 2005
Publications —
Pasatiempo, April 2017
"Making art off the grid: John Vokoun"
TREND Magazine, Fall 2015
"A1s + 0s = Art: John Vokoun bends CORRUPTED.."
THE Magazine, August 2015
"John Vokoun: Liniar Funcations"
Pasatiempo, October 2014
"Full Spectrum: John Vokoun takes Data to New Places"
Bio
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. Vokoun resides in Santa Fe, New Mexico. His work has shown at David Richard Gallery, William Siegal Gallery, and he recently exhibited at the New Mexico Museum of Art.
“Just as Cezanne made us rethink our perception of a bowl of apples... Vokoun finds artistic integrity, beauty, and even spirituality in what goes awry...”