John Hood

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About John Hood

John Hood (born in Norman, Oklahoma, 1966). John was raised from an early age in Los Angeles where he began is lifelong fascination for the sea. He is considered a non-objective painter perhaps best-known for his highly textured mixed-media surfaces with meditative forms. Hood began his artistic journey after moving back to the mid-west in the early 1980’s, where his academic studies took him in the direction of experimental filmmaking. In the early 1990’s he held his first solo exhibition of painting and film, at the Individual Artists of Oklahoma in Oklahoma City. He often returns to Oklahoma and continues to be fascinated by the special earth tones and native influences. His works began to be viewed nationally and abroad where he had group exhibitions in New York, Houston, Los Angeles, Paris and Florence. By the end of the 1990’s Hood was working both as an artist and educator (becoming a tenured faculty member at Allan Hancock College in Santa Maria, California). From this period to the present, Hood has worked with the Central Coast artistic community as exhibition organizer and juror for a variety of art shows. Over the last few years he has devoted much of his time and attention to both family (twenty five years with his lovely wife Debra and his two beautiful daughters) and academic issues, where he continues to be an advocate for emerging local artists in Santa Barbara County.