The Cleveland Plain Dealer: <<BACK “...The iconography is reduced to several basic forms – an egg, a cross, arrows and sometimes a nude male body, tensed in thought. The forms are sometimes neatly centered on the canvas or they take random direction, filling the space with nervous energy and movement. The paint surface is rich and viscous, with generally muted background tones.”
“John Sargent of Beachwood gives a new meaning to 'cubism.' Sargent constructed three oil on wood cubes imprinted with images focusing on the physical and the spiritual.” ' Remember Denial,' 'Close Too Far' and 'We have not forgotten how to wonder, only why' incorporate abstracted, yet highly representational, images onto cubes. We see angelic figures in a cloudy mist, Romanesque torsos, elements of nature such as leaves and trees and faces fusing with the background.” 'When I look at an exceptional work of art it inherently provokes me to think,' Sargent said in his biography for the show. 'I would like to believe that my work can provoke the same response.' His intriguing cubes do just that.”
“Twelve highly respected Cleveland artists created designs for “Windows on an AIDS free World,” one of the simplest and most dramatic visual testimonies created locally to support the battle against AIDS.... John Sargent’s piece projects two shadowy dancers in space ('The Song Goes').
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