Hosted by The Eubie Blake Center

Casual attire

Free admission

COLOR FISSION is visual art exhibit featuring the work of John Bodkin

John Bodkin is a classically trained, highly accredited artist who has been professionally painting for 52 years. He has a BFA from Ringling School of Art, and an MFA from the University of Tulsa. He has taught in several Universities & multiple State colleges as well as schools in China. Bodkin has exhibited widely in the United States in cities such as Los Angeles, New York, Washington D.C., Miami and Baltimore. In the last ten years he’s had eleven solo exhibitions, with the last one being in China. His paintings have been selected by the Department of State to hang in multiple U.S. Embassies to represent American art and artists to other countries. Bodkin’s work is in more than one hundred and sixty corporate, institutional and private collections. His dedication to his practice – painting and drawing everyday – is evident upon visiting John in his Gambrills home and studio where he lives & works with his partner & wife Beth.

ARTIST STATEMENT

I explore with my work, probing the depths of each visual. First as a flash of light, a color, an emotion, a pattern, a time. The path that guides me flows like a river to its destiny. This river moves slowly, over time.