Village Conversations Artist John Pugh
When
2:30 PM to 3:30 PM
Limited Capacity: 75 spots available
Price
Date: Friday July 2, 2021 at 2:30pm
Speaker: John Pugh, artist in Ashland, Oregon
Topic: Murals - 'Trompe L'oeil Murals'
John Pugh (born 1957) is an American artist known for creating large trompe-l'œil wall murals giving the illusion of a three-dimensional scene behind the wall. Pugh has been creating his murals since the late 1970s. He attended California State University Chico, receiving his BA in 1983 and the Distinguished Alumni Award in 2003. He has received over 250 public and private commissions in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Barbados, Japan, Taiwan, and New Zealand.
His works have been described as "not merely ornamental or curiously clever. They are thought-provoking, substantial, and sometimes even philosophical or spiritual. What separates the murals of John Pugh from their less consequential cousins is that he goes beyond trompe l’oeil by combining techniques of illusion with narrative or conceptual elements and thereby not only “fools the eye” but captures the imagination and engages the mind as well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Pugh_(artist)
FROM JOE FOX:
John has had some close connections to the Bay Area and to Lamorinda Village in the past. He is the son of Shirley Pugh Fox, my second wife, who was (with me) a charter member of Lamorinda Village until Alzheimer's took her from us.
John has only recently moved his studio from Truckee, CA, to Ashland, OR, and also has had a studio in the hills by Santa Cruz for a long time. Members may have already seen some of his works since they are all over California, including at the Stanford Shopping Center. For those unfamiliar with his work, I recommend two books, Masters of Deception and The Murals of John Pugh- Beyond Trompe L'oeil.