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Created and Sold by John Randall Nelson
Dreamland - Paintings
Featured In Sue Greenwood Fine Art, Laguna Beach, CA
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“Faux-naïf artist John Randall Nelson has crafted an idiosyncratic but instantly identifiable symbolic language. His paintings, prints, and sculptures feature cartoon-like images of humans, wolves, birds, teardrops, desert plants, and polka dots. In his two-dimensional work, Nelson often collages layers of motifs together with bits of appropriated text.
His work touches on Neo-Expressionism and American Folk Art, emphasizing simplified images. For Nelson, the unconscious is like a reservoir; themes emerge, some that are humorous, others that are cryptic and vague.” Artsy, 2023
In his most recent exhibition appropriately titled “Dreamland,” the subject of the work changes from piece to piece, but the core stems from a long developed personal lexicon. If there’s a theory behind Nelson’s work, it’s semiotics: the theory of signs. In semiotic theory images can function like words in a sentence, the meaning of each image dependent on how it is paired with other symbols.
His work touches on Neo-Expressionism and American Folk Art, emphasizing simplified images. For Nelson, the unconscious is like a reservoir; themes emerge, some that are humorous, others that are cryptic and vague.” Artsy, 2023
In his most recent exhibition appropriately titled “Dreamland,” the subject of the work changes from piece to piece, but the core stems from a long developed personal lexicon. If there’s a theory behind Nelson’s work, it’s semiotics: the theory of signs. In semiotic theory images can function like words in a sentence, the meaning of each image dependent on how it is paired with other symbols.