i keep my visions to myself

John Vitale was born 1979. He is a largely self-taught abstract painter, based in Brooklyn, NY, where he lives with his partner and works in his studio in Sunset Park. He has exhibited in Taiwan, up and down the West Coast, in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and New York City. His work is in public and private collections in many parts of the world.
Vitale’s paintings are explorations of the human experience that blend organic shapes, lines, plateaus and rich color palettes into captivating visual narratives. What unfolds from his investigations are isolated experiments, each embodying textured negative space. He is meticulous in his intention; After weeks of unresolved work, a single minor mark- or the erasure of one- a small color change or shift in a shape’s boundary can realize the finality of a painting. Using a combination of acrylic, house paint, enamels, pencils, canvas scrap and oil sticks to create his works, Vitale layers materials to create tangible archives of time and experience.
Vitale’s work aims to deconstruct and compartmentalize the chaos that imbues society daily. He views each painting as a learning experience- an exploration of the environment that encompasses him. A meditation on complex human problems, and a search for answers to these conundrums. This process is how he learns to make sense of the incessant inventory of information that one must ingest.