John Guzman: Solo Exhibition at Real Artways

Oct 17 – Dec 17
OPEN 7 days: 2-9 PM

John Guzman’s drawings and paintings are a byproduct of experiences and reflections of the artist’s environment,  growing up in San Antonio’s Southside.  While growing up, John witnessed the psychological and physical deterioration of his peers suffering from various forms of self destructive behaviors. In those early works, Guzman abstracted the human form in a way that reflected the mental and bodily harm endured by those close to him, in turn, portraying the unrecognizable transformations caused by years of punishment, relapse, and self-destruction.

After moving to Connecticut in 2021, these fragmented human forms remained a central theme in his work. However, Guzman’s focus shifts inwardly, reconfiguring anatomies as a tool for obsessive investigations of his own art practice. By cutting, gouging, and carving into heavy bodied paint with charcoal, pastel, and graphite, Guzman excavates new narratives from previous marks and aesthetic choices.  Throughout his process, Guzman creates a past to uncover, and a future to, in turn, reinterpret and ultimately cover again.

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