John Tomlinson Artist in Drawing & Motion Drawing Video
John is an artist of drawing with a professional practice spanning almost 40 years.
During the past several years he has combined his drawings with animation in digital video to
create narrative motion drawings with soundworks. One such work, "small gestures
Modes of Escape", was presented at the DIGit Media Arts Exposition in Narrowsburg, NY, in
August 2006, and at the Black Bear Film Festival in Milford, PA, in October 2006.
(Short Flash excerpts are at top and bottom left)
His works in progress are short motion drawing digital videos with soundworks with the theme
of the passing of time, small tribulations of life and other varied themes of human interaction.
Exhibitions
He has exhibited his paintings and drawings in New York City and throughout the U.S.,
including at the Delaware Valley Arts Alliance in Narrowsburg, NY, and has received reviews in
several publications, including Arts Magazine and The New York Times.
His 1980s portrait works were exhibited in a show of portraits and self-portraits by 80 artists at
the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center in Vermont entitled "As Others See Us", from November 2008
through February 2009.
His one-person show of drawings, motion drawing videos and soundworks,
"So Much to Say [not enough time] " was at the Alliance Gallery of the Delaware Valley Arts Center
in Narrowsburg, NY., from June 12 through July 4, 2009, coinciding with the opening of the
6th annual DIGit Media Arts Exposition.
Tomlinson received a Fellowship for Visual Artists and Craftspersons grant from the Delaware
Valley Arts Alliance in 2005.
Teaching
He was professor of drawing in the Fine Arts Department of Parsons the New School for Design
from 1980 to 2001 and has been the director of the New York Studio Program of the 36 U.S. and
4 Canadian colleges of the Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design since 1992.
Community
John is a founding member of both the DIGit Media Arts Exposition in Narrowsburg, NY and the
Barryville Area Arts Association. He is also a founding board member of the Upper Delaware
Preservation Coalition (UDPC), an environmental advocacy group whose mission is to protect
and preserve the Upper Delaware River Valley of New York State and Pennsylvania.
Education
John Tomlinson was born and educated in Boston and has lived in New York since 1961. He has
a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Cooper Union School of Art.
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To see a Flash slideshow of four decades of his drawings click on this link.
To see John Tomlinson's videos, soundworks and poetry click on this link.
To buy his books, Drawings: A Compilation, Videographics and Portraits, click on this link.
