JOHN W. MCCREA
1947 TO PRESENT
BORN IN 1947 IN SOUTH CAROLIINA
ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO 1972 / BFA
WORKED AT NBC-TV- COURT SKETCH ARTIST
MOVED TO SANTA FE, N. MEXICO 1985- TO TUCSON AZ. 1996 TO PRESENT
Just recently John has produced a number of oil paintings that has changed the
way people look a southwest patterns. He's created abstract paintings combining
white and black to suggest the idea of light as a prime form. John is absorbed with this
challenge to expressthis define and limited space. His composition of form as an actual
framework but to create an atmosphere of shapes through shading.
