Craig Johns
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Craig Johns born in Philadelphia into a family of outstanding artists including his uncle Arthur B. Carles, the renowned early 20th century American abstractionist.
Mr. Johns in the summer of 1947 studied painting at the Hans Hofmann School in Provincetown, MA. After earning a BA degree from Columbia University, he spent a year at the Royal Acandemy de Beaux Arts in Brussels. Upon his return from Europe, he became an art director at Time Inc. where he worked until 1987. During that time he participated in group shows of abstract painters at the Signa Gallery in East Hampton, New York.
He had a one-man show at the Westerly Gallery where his work was reviewed by New York Times art critic John Canaday: "A group of exercises in the reduction of landscape to near total abstractions of its structure. The paintings are very agreeable, but the drawings tell best. A careful, deliberate intelligence and a good hand and eye are obviously at work here."
After taking early retirement from Time Inc. in order devote full time to his life-long desire to paint, he had a one-man show in 1998 at the Garuda Gallery in Sharon CT. The paintings, consisting of landscapes and stillifes, showed a direction away from the abstract toward almost total naturalism. A number of observers however noted that the artist's early concern for abstract pictorial demands were still an integral part of his current work.
In 1999 he was invited to show a number of his paintings in the Salisbury Association's annual Moore Brook Art Exhibit "Art Inspired by Nature"
In 2002-5 his paintings have been seen at the Junior League of Eastern Fairfield County Invitational Art Show and the Beacon Hill Country Club of Summit N.J. group shows.
His work has been shown at the Haddad Gallery in Hudson N.Y. for the past 6 years and more recently at the Haddad/Lascano Gallery in Great Barrington MA as well as the Segalas Gallery in Bernardsville, N.J.
Mr. Johns has been nominated for membership in the National Academy of Design in New York City. He is a lifetime member of the Art Students League.
His work is included in numerous private collections including the Australian Parliament, ABC Television, and the Marisa Driscoll Collection.
