Artist Talk | John Raux

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ARTIST TALK | JOHN RAUX

Join John Raux on Saturday, December 12, from 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM for an artist talk about Ellipses…, exploring how memory, experience, emotion, and life's complexities come together in his abstract paintings.

Free and open to the public.

John Raux

Ellipses

November 6 - January 29, 2027

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John Raux | Ellipses…

Three dots trail off and allude to this sensation that we are always in the middle of things.

Between fading memories, active presence, and projections into desired futures, these paintings are a turning point, an elliptical habit of seasons and experiences emerging together into some gestural forms.

Mechanical stencils that could produce near perfect pixels of color instead are layered into the gestures as the texture of tools without the idealized biases of perfection and efficiency that arrive as promises of technological advancement.

This work celebrates the cluster of unreducable humanity and life that is rich and complicated in relationship to and expression of love and pain and work and play and humor and worry and contradiction and flow and horror and beauty and idiocy and brilliance and and and…

So too are the fragments of words that are found in the place of titles. Sometimes the phrasings are smashed together in surprising juxtaposition while also spread apart… in somewhat unsatisfactory omissions.

All the while sharing some mysterious poetic that beyond our own predictability and temptation to manipulate or reduce, the tempestuous collective movements of life find their ways around all impulses to coerce and control.

The Ellipses series is a dance of pigment and sentiment with the audacity to not know and still strive to be

Artist Bio:

Born in Dakar, Senegal and raised in Kansas City, John Raux is a run on sentence with no drivers license cultivating abstract multi-media art exhibitions (Broadworks in London, Takt in Berlin, Jaaga in Bangalore, Leedy-Voulkos in Kansas City…), large scale murals (Sike Style Industries), collaborative installations (Middle of the Map Fest, Rockcottage Glassworks), international hospitality and relations (International Visitors Leadership Program) and publications (Footballzine) to inspire and provoke individuals and isolated communities from stasis and apathy into active cultural exchange and restored poetic imagination all the while traveling the globe on foot and by bicycle with his backpack full of art supplies and food made for sharing.