John Veteri

John Veteri				Small Works Gallery			January 5 - January 30, 2008

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	“I have been inspired and motivated by many things: my parents, architecture and the many cities I have visited.” My mother was an artist, and I was inspired by her miraculous ability to take a blank canvas and created it into a work of art. My father, a house builder, had the remarkable ability to sketch buildings and house plans. I used to doodle on anything that I could find, from a piece of paper to a concrete sidewalk. I tried numerous times enrolling into art classes, failing or dropping out each time. Until one day I realized that these classesd were trying to teach me techiques that I didn’t feel comfortable with. I started drawing what came natural to me; when I view these buildings I see them as others do, but from my eyes to my hands I interpret these structures different on paper, as you will notice in the work. Over the years, family and friends would tell me that the drawings were really good and that I should continue to draw more. My inspiration came one day three years ago when my older sisiter found a doodle of a city that I created in 1985; that and the fact that the family just returned from Italy in 1999, made me start drawing again. My inspiration for headshots came from a day waiting in line at the local post office; I noticed a rather slender woman with the narrowest face I ever saw, and visioned that image into my art. Having realized that I was ADD and always had to be doing two things at once, I began to doodle at school or many times at a meeting or conference My inspiration for headshots came from a day waiting in line at the local post office; I noticed a rather slender woman with the narrowest face I ever saw, and visioned that image into my art. Having realized that I was ADD and always had to be doing two things at once, I began to doodle at school or many times at a meeting or conference and at the office, which continues today. I look at my subject with a photographic eye, but when transposing it becomes slighly distorted. John Veteri