Meet Artist John-Mark Gleadow

Join us as we welcome John-Mark Gleadow to LaMantia Gallery, Friday, May 19th, 5:30-7:30, and Saturday, May 20th, 2:00-5:00 pm.

John-Mark Gleadow is a  contemporary American artist specializing in hyperrealistic oil paintings of books. He is  renowned for his skill as a draftsman and ability for creating hyper realistic oil paintings.  Beginning with still lives, John-Mark’s paintings  have portraiture as their backbone. With his mastery of the medium, his trademark use of vibrant colors has come to the fore – an element of his work made the more fascinating due to his having to cope with his own colorblindness. His most recent series has fused the centuries-old theme of painting book spines with his love of doing figurative work and has allowed him to broaden the thematic horizons of his paintings. He has gone on to garner various awards, solo shows, and grants and has been met with commercial success in the numerous galleries carrying his work from coast to coast in the United States and beyond.