John Boone

PROVENANCE: Courtesy of the Artist

Too True is one of eight paintings made in May of this year as a response to the global moment.Too True is also a response to the skewed use of “truth” in our world using an idiom as an exclamation.

Born in Princeton, NJ in 1951.  I designed the current version of a digital alphabet in 1990 and have been using it for all my studio work.  My paintings are made from digitalized idioms used as reflections of states of mind and other stimuli.  Because of my neutralized alphabet I have a freedom like a newspaper or a radio station to comment on anything.  Over the years I have shown art in NYC, around the country as well as in Germany, Italy and the UK.  In addition to paintings I have had several public commissions in different parts of the world, flying a sign over Berlin, a street mural in Prague, eight murals in glass block for the Hudson Bergen Light Rail in Jersey City, a compass in granite in the Key West Botanical Garden.  Recently, I designed large banners for the entry of the Boca Raton Museum of Art along with a one man show of studio work.  I live and work in Brooklyn, NY and Stonington, CT.  I am married to Jenny Dixon, the former director of the Noguchi Museum.