Dempsey's elaborate monochromatic garden scenes show botanicals in an extreme state of evolution. These imaginative futuristic gardens show plants reacting to the warming environment and emerging into more aggressive, sexually charged and survival-oriented forms of life. These plants are shown as reversed silhouettes - simplifying these invented figures of nature into emblematic profiles. With the world's climate changing new botanicals emerge into non-classified forms. Some flowers fly like migratory birds while others may develop protective foliage. Dempsey uses distinct, yet elegant and lyrical, shapes to give a sense of heightened expression. Bubbly clouds and rounded flowers show the influences of urban art and street lettering that add to this underlying sense of being and survival. Color-schemes from 18h century French tapestries play off the theme of lost worlds, and these new botanicals may be incorporated into patterns of the future if we don’t take care of our planet. Dempsey was born in Evanston, Illinois, and studied art under Aethelred Eldridge at Ohio University where he began to develop his contemporary art style. Dempsey resides and paints in Chicago.
Pop Impressionism John Dempsey Art Dempsey Art Chicago Environmental Art Global Warming Art Contemporary Botanical Art Contemporary Art Chicago