Thursday, February 16th at 4pm in the CU Art Museum
Come join us to learn more about local artist Johnny Plastini's practice in printmaking and how he builds community. Free and open to everyone.
Johnny Plastini received his BA in visual art with a painting emphasis from the University of California, Santa Cruz and received his MFA in printmaking from the Tyler School of Art, Temple University. In addition to teaching, he has also worked professionally in the museum world at the Museum of Art and History in Santa Cruz, California and at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Johnny currently is an associate professor and area coordinator of printmaking at Colorado State University where his advisement ranges from introductory undergraduate courses to graduate level theses. Johnny’s current research focuses on issues of interaction, intra-action, transaction, and transmission through the lens of contemporary art and art history. His pluralistic approaches to exploring both dichotomies and kinships of erudition and neo-mysticism specifically with regard to hypermodernism, dromology, vital materialism, and agential realism have been exhibited extensively at museums, multidisciplinary conferences, art fairs, and galleries, nationally and internationally. He has been featured in numerous fine art publications including CRED, Studio Visit, and New American Paintings. Johnny’s work is held in the permanent public collections of Zayed University, United Arab Emirates, and in the Zuckerman Museum of Art at Kennesaw State University. His work is also held in various private collections across the United States.
His work can be found on Instagram @jplastini
Images courtesy of Johnny Plastini.