This biography from the Archives of AskART:
|  John Asaro is known for his colorful and light-filled paintings of the female figure. His subjects range from women in garden scenes to beach scenes to most recently female dancers.
Asaro studied at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California from 1955 to 1958. He next attended the Art Students League in New York in 1959 studying with Frank Reilly. Asaro worked as an illustrator in Detroit, Los Angeles, and New York City from 1960 to 1973. The artist returned to Art Center College of Design as in instructor of painting until 1981 when Asaro decided to devote himself to his own fine art.
Source: American Artist, March 2004 |
Biography from Claggett/Rey Gallery:
| A native Californian of Sicilian decent, John Asaro grew up some twenty miles from the picturesque beaches at Point Loma and the visually stimulating, multi-cultural city of San Diego. The artist began to experiment with a combination of palette knife and brush techniques to attain on canvas the fleeting essence found in nature. Going outdoors to sketch briskly the essentials of a transitory scene, Asaro finishes most of his paintings in the studio as he listens to recorded Gregorian chants, the classical music of Puccini and Verdi or the energetic voices of Luciano Pavarotti & Leontyne Price.
The distinguished paintings of John Asaro capture immediate fleeting impressions rather than permanent aspects of a subject. His sumptuous, flowing brushwork allows the viewer to explore nuances reality and truth. Within layers of beautifully orchestrated pigments, Asaro's virile strokes of paint dash, swish, swirl and leash out to represent light, atmosphere, motion of direct and reflected colors in open air and the complexity of the human condition.
Patricia Jobe Pierce |
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