Direct-observation image-objects on Mylar

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John Hancock art

ELIZABETHTOWN, PA (01/23/2014)(readMedia)-- Since 2000, John Hancock has lived, made art and taught in the shadow of the Blue Ridge Mountains of central Virginia. Prior to relocating, he lived, studied and worked throughout the Southeast and Midwest.

Hancock regularly exhibits his art around the country and has shown in England.

The artist exhibits at Elizabethtown College, from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Friday and 1 to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday through February 28, and will be on campus for a reception and talk at 4 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 27.

His image-objects started for this exhibit, as most of his work does, with direct observation. Through editing, abutment and overlays organic and geometric passages interrupt realism with abstraction. In this way, these works on Mylar disrupt most of the conventions of landscape, still life and portraiture. "My paintings, drawings and collages are an exploration of the natural world and our place in it." His observation-based landscape work has been executed on large and small paper formats as well as panels.

Hancock, an adjunct associate professor of art at Blue Ridge Community College in Weyers Cave, Va., received his bachelor's degree in fine art from Valdosta State University, Valdosta, Ga., and his master's degree from East Carolina University, Greenville, N.C. He is a member of the McGuffey Art Center as well as the Virginia, North Carolina and Southern Watercolor Societies.Besides making art and teaching, Hancock takes an avid interest in walking through old neighborhoods and the countryside; bird watching, reading and cooking. He has judged art shows and curated exhibitions of contemporary work and is always creating new work and working at getting exhibitions.

Most of his art has been created in drawing or painting. In painting, he prefers watercolor or includes watercolor with other material. He has expanded his drawing from working on paper to the use of larger, installation sized drawing on Mylar.

The exhibit is free and sponsored by the Department of Fine and Performing Arts.

See more of Hancock's work.

Contact: Milt Friedly at friedlmd@etown.edu or 717-361-1385.

Elizabethtown College, located in historic Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, is a private coed institution offering more than four dozen liberal arts, fine and performing arts, science and engineering, business, communications and education degrees. Learn more: http://www.etown.edu/about/

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