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Number 51 on the New Times “100 Creatives” list.
“Good work should always … have small isolated figures, fragmented heads, shadow play, words, flowers and small animals.”   Click here to read interview.

“My earliest exposure to visual art involved visits to the Art Institute of Chicago. Growing up near Chicago the earliest work that influenced me was the “Chicago Imagist” art of Jim Nutt, Roger Brown and Karl Wirsum.” Click here to read.

(A Public Art Project by John Randall Nelson and Joe Willie Smith). Fabricated steel fences, gates, cast concrete posts and shade structures. Sited at Matthew Henson HOPE VI Housing Project, Phoenix, AZ. 2013. “Fifty-two sculptural finials with fifty-two unique concrete posts combine to effect jarringly comical juxtapositions of objects and form.  Spinning whirligigs and rustic weathervanes create an overall art garden environment that stands like a symbol of locality and remembrance.”   Click here to read.

“This Arizona artist’s mixed-media panels call to you from across a room with colorful forms and bold symbols. But when you draw closer, they whisper, with layers of texture and half-hidden words.” Seattle Times by Lynn Jacobson.   Click here to read.

” Profuse with signs and heavy with ambiguity; the works rejoice in materiality. These are objects, part of the sensual world.”   Click here for AP Review.

“unmatched in ethereal, scrappy dada, and the echoing jangles that were so strange yet magnetic.”
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