John Greiner-Ferris

I do not believe that life, and therefore art, is a spectator sport. Pictures are something you engage with. The worst thing I can think could happen to my art is if someone looked at it and then said, “That’s nice. Do you want to get some ice cream?” Art should be talked about. It should be fought over. 

I value materials and process and spontaneity within the process for what it allows the materials to reveal. 

I am inspired and influenced by street art. Decay. Torn wallpaper in an abandoned house. Graffiti on freight cars.  Memory, remorse, and anger. And advertising.