Artists
John Ancheta
Drawing from his background in set design for theatre and film, John Ancheta’s paintings coalesce scientific imaging, landscape, and digital abstraction in large-scale cinematic mise-en-scènes. Ancheta works primarily from found images culled from open source digital archives and film stills, but in the process of painting, he transmutes these images into imagined fragmentary topographies that imbue the cartographic quotidian with a near mythological significance. Often working with variations of a single image, Ancheta orchestrates serial compositions that explore the psychic dimensions of temporal and spatial simultaneity.
Born in Long Beach, California in 1973, John Ancheta spent much of his childhood on a communal farm in rural Northern British Columbia. Ancheta studied sound engineering at the Institute of Communication Arts in Vancouver, BC (1993) and Fine Arts (1997-2000) and Philosophy (2004-2007) at Concordia University. He currently lives and works in Montreal, Canada.
Exhibitions
Publications
Aquacades
Artist: John Ancheta
ISBN: 978-2-9810857-4-0
Published: 2010
Price: $20.00
Dimensions: 23cm x 43cm
Details: soft cover; 32 pages; colour plates
Essay: gwynne fulton • Translation: Monica Haim, Ingrid Thompson • Graphic Design: Feed • Photography: Éliane Excoffier • Image processing: Photosynthèse.
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Fielding the Uncanny
Artists: John Ancheta and Stephen Talasnik
Published: 2010
Price: Free
Dimensions: 7" x 9.5"
Details: soft cover; 16 pages; black & white plates
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Press
Underwater with John Ancheta, or notes on an opening (TONIGHT!)
Written by Kit Malo
Published in Inside the Frozen Mammoth, February 25, 2010
...(John Ancheta) been one of my absolute favourite painters, nay artists, for years. His dedication to his craft, understanding of place within a vast historical context, and unwillingness to settle for a certain set or style of aesthetics never ceases to astound me. The fact that I always, always want to take my clothes off and get it on with his canvases is just a bonus.
See complete text: http://www.thefrozenmammoth.com/2010/02/25/underwater-with-john-ancheta-or-notes-on-an-opening-tonight/
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