I am John Bittinger Klomp, Visual Artist, creating acrylics, mixed media distressed digital images, graphics, pastels and graphite paintings and drawings. My work can.be found in my blog, The Art of John Bittinger Klomp, http://jbkart.blogspot.com, and on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/JohnKlomp.
Twentierh Century masters like Pablo Picasso and Georgia O’Keefe experimented in various techniques and media. While I cannot compare myself to those two masters, I have had my share of Andy Warhol’s ‘fifteen minutes’ in several areas as seen in “Career Events” below. I worked a double career as artist and art educator for thirty-eight years, teaching K–12 and college level,“Computer and Digital Technology as Applied to Art Education.” I completed my Doctor of Arts, Art Education at New York University in 2000. Since retirement I am free to fulfill my passion of art production.
StatementThere are as many ways of seeing these artworks as there are people. However, as the artist I play with a sci-fi notion of infinite universes charted by a super-intergalactic civilization (Far, far away in both time and space). I also use the artworks as spiritual tool or charm in meditation. Additionally, they are based in my identity as a gay man. They do so by referencing the spectrum and rainbow using color transparency in digital prints, brushed acrylic paint and stencils. But perhaps the best description I can make as the artist follows in verse, an excerpt from “The Initial Singularity” written March 26, 2022.
…There is no such thing as One initial singularity. / It Happened, / Happened again – And / Still, / Again. / It happens now, And will happen In another now / And again – / And each time / Folded into itself In extra dimensions – / Matter and energy / Condensed into A soup of / No thing / And, the Nothing of Another space / And then Reborn each time – / Every time! / A thousand Eternities! / Another thousand, / And another – / And still others – / Space / time / Is overfilled / With possibility. / An infinity!
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