Untitled #17 / Mixed Media / Microprism Glass Beads on Canvas / 16 x 20 inches

Untitled #21/ Mixed media / Microprism Glass Beads / 16 x 16

Untitled #15 / Mixed Media Microprism Glass Beads / 4 pieces on Canvas / 16 x 16 inches

Untitled #11 / Mixed Media Microprism Glass Beads / 60 x 72 inches

John Cletus Wilcox

Cletus is a Louisville native now residing in New Albany, Indiana and has been a full time artist for the last 8 years.  As a self taught artist his processes are generally rooted in a sense of discovery and problem solving rather than a polished, pre planned execution.  Although the aesthetics of his work are widely varied they are nearly all rooted in the interplay between form and emptiness, a central teaching in the Zen tradition.  As he continues to explore his own artistic voice he has become keenly aware that creating a body of work that simultaneously exhibits a clear form while also negating that form is what interests him.  In short his aim is to use artistic expression as a means of actualizing the reality of our own lives and the reality of the world in which we exist.  The reality that forms are inherently empty and that emptiness is experienced through form.