John W. Ford : Print Media

John Ford was born in Nigeria, West Africa. At the age of five he and his family moved back to America where he spent most of his childhood and young adulthood in southeastern Missouri, living on a small farm near the town of Jackson. Ford received formal art training at Southeast Missouri State University (BS/Ed. 1982) and Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville (MFA/Studio 1986) with concentrations in printmaking, painting, and sculpture.

In the most basic terms, Ford's creative practice is the result, the residue, of influence, adaptation, and connection to specific places. The sculptural installations, low-relief assemblages, and prints result from examination and collection of quite ordinary, small objects left by past inhabitants or resulting from a larger contemporary context. In the process of working with this detritus, Ford seems to be constructing a metaphoric and literal framework intended for speculative and intuitive comprehension; an implement of intuition, assimilation, and co-existence though not necessarily intellectual understanding.

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