John Pearson (American, b. 1940), Shinto Series B #12 / Shinto Series C # 11

Acrylic on wood construction, 1995, singed and inscribed to label en verso.

Each 11 5/8 x 11 5/8 in.

The Contemporary Art Collection of Francine & Benson Pilloff, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

John Pearson was a long-time professor at Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio, and has been twice recognized by the Cleveland Arts Prize. His work has been exhibited in the Akron Museum of Art and Judith Bear Isroff Gallery.

These two works are from Pearson’s Shinto Series created in Japan in the 1990s. They reference the religious art of Japanese Shinto shrines, which feature talismans and house sacred objects. Pearson portrays these concepts in geometric forms, the openings and niches evoking a Shinto shrine's function as a reliquary.

Works from this series were exhibited in Thought Forms, John Pearson, Scott Olson at the Abattoir Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio, 2021.


Good estate condition.