John McCormick

John McCormick is a Northern California painter who creates luminous landscapes of vast vistas featuring wetlands, hills and valleys, and the sea. McCormick’s tonalist palette and approach place him in the tradition of such American painters as George Innis. His oil paintings convey a sense of the sublime in nature. Using finely tuned compositional elements, controlled brushwork in oil, and earthy color, McCormick creates contemporary works that synthesize romantic and classical impulses.

McCormick earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts at the University of the Pacific and twice received their Alumni Fellowship. He has been awarded numerous artist residencies, notably the Djerassi Foundation in 2008 and the Morris Graves Foundation in 2004. He has exhibited nationally in such cities as San Francisco, New York, Chicago, Charlotte and Miami, and internationally in Montreal and Moscow. In California he had solo museum exhibitions at San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, The Triton Museum, and The Bolinas Museum, the latter two of which hold his work in their collections. John McCormick’s work has been acquired by over 150 private and corporate collections including Stanford University and the Deutsche Bank in San Francisco, as well as SAFECO and Swedish Medical Center in Seattle. Harris Harvey Gallery, formerly the Lisa Harris Gallery, has represented him John McCormick since 2001.