| JOHN BIANCHI |
Born in 1979, New York-based sculptor and installation artist John Bianchi earned a B.F.A. from The Cooper Union, New York, in 2003, and is currently working toward an M.F.A. at Yale University. He has exhibited his work in Miami at Placemaker, The House, and Fredric Snitzer Gallery; and at Art in General and the Guild and Greyshkul Gallery in New York. Bianchi’s work is in the collections of Nest Magazine, John Friedman, Hernan Bas, and Edsel Williams, among others.
Untitled (Tornado #1) and Untitled (Tornado #2) were part of a site-specific installation Bianchi created at Placemaker Gallery in Miami in 2005, entitled The Sky is a Big Responsibility. The Tornado drawings were hung in a panoramic display throughout the installation and, according to the artist, were “inspired by the intense relationship between man and nature occurring directly outside the doors of the gallery…[in their] evocation of an ominous and sublime atmosphere.” “I find many imbedded contradictions in the drawings,” he wrote, “equal parts hope and dread as their peaceful cerulean blue and cotton candy innocence give way to the utter indifference of nature, embodied in violent eruptions of destructive acts.”
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