John Outterbridge

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From the earliest period of my life, as a developing artist, I feel I must have been born wounded with a blessing. By that I mean art making for me is a language, a means by which I practice my life. Not only do I enjoy myself, but my work encourages me to become a more useful human being.

More than 30 years ago, a vast variety of elements such as rag, wood, metal, organic materials, music, poetry, ritual, as well as social/political phenomena found sanctuary in the fabric of my art process. Currently my work is concerned with the ongoing exploration of life-the-cliché and life-the-unknown. My true feeling is that what we ultimately define as art is far less than what art's reality reveals to us. The audacity of art to be anything it chooses at any given moment extends to us the ultimate of possibility and vision.

Born in Greenville, North Carolina, John attended The American Academy of Art, Chicago, Illinois.