John Obuck

Artist Statement:

Sometimes it’s painfully obvious to find the path where the painting has traveled. Sometimes it’s a stumble and fall, sometimes it’s a full flat canvas to cement. Always with the exchange is always the thing and the abstraction is the key.

John Obuck, 2025

Artist Biography:

John Obuck lives and works in New York City. He has exhibited his work nationally and internationally, and has been awarded the Rome Prize Fellowship in Painting, the Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant, and the Louis Comert Tiffany Grant. His work is included in the collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, the Cincinnati Art Museum, Chase Manhattan Bank and General Electric Corporation. His work at Flatbed Press explored forms derived from north-African, Islamic patterns, and combines his interests in patterning and symbols.

AAA:

Member Since: 1992

Painting entitled Untitled by John Obuck — John Obuck – *Untitled*, 2020, oil on canvas, 24 x 24 inches

Painting entitled Window by John Obuck — John Obuck – *Window*, 2020, oil on canvas, 24 x 24 inches

Painting entitled Untitled 2 by John Obuck — John Obuck – *Untitled 2*, 2023, oil on canvas, 24 x 24 inches

Painting entitled New York by John Obuck — John Obuck – *New York*, 2020, oil on canvas, 20 x 20 inches

Painting entitled Square by John Obuck — John Obuck – *Square*, 2022, oil on canvas, 24 x 24 inches

Painting entitled Stacked by John Obuck — John Obuck – *Stacked*, 2022, oil on canvas, 24 x 24 inches

Painting entitled City by John Obuck — John Obuck – *City*, 2019, oil on canvas, 24 x 24 inches

Painting entitled Untitled 3 by John Obuck — John Obuck – *Untitled 3*, 2020, oil on canvas, 12 x 24 inches