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John Drury

John Drury is a multi-media artist, published author, independent curator and instructor. Drury holds a Bachelor of Fine Art degree from the Columbus College of Art and Design and a Master of Fine Art degree in sculpture (1985; including a minor in painting), from Ohio State University. John is the father of two young adults, and is living in NYC since 1989. He has received the prestigious Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award. John is a contributing editor of Glass Magazine, with published texts appearing in Raw Vision, Neus Glass and Maggot Brain magazines, in addition those appearing online, at ArtNet and Whitehot. He has written texts for artist monographs published by Black Dog, Damiani and the Museum of Glass.

John Drury is on Instagram, at johndrury.studio and can be contacted, at simplefolktoo@hotmail.com

articles by this author

Buster Simpson’s Remedy: a Seaside Assault

Form Follows Fancy: Wayne Ngan at the James Cohan Gallery

Barnes Stayed Home: Curtis Barnes Sr.: Dayton Icon, at the Dayton Art Institute

It’s the Small Things: Tom Warren at the Abaton Project Room

Know Your ABC’s at the Emily Harvey Foundation

Protest with Rubén Ortiz-Torres at the Wallach

Deep in the Dark, Damp Woods with Vancouver Island’s George Sawchuk

Ayiti Toma II: Faith, Family, and Resistance at Luhring Augustine

Thornton Dial’s Peak Behind Your Blinders at Hauser & Wirth

Mark B. Russell’s Bits and Pieces, in the Icebox

"Frank Walter: To Capture a Soul” at the Drawing Center

Pat’s Got Hats

Stand Tall with Damron and Woolard, at Nha Minh

Leonard Daley’s Mountaintop at Cavin-Morris Gallery

Beau Dick’s Dzunuk’wa Is Here for Your Soul by John Drury

Otis Houston Jr.’s Outside, In at Gordon Robichaux

The Outsider Art Fair: Give a Hoot, Don’t Dilute by John Drury

Chris Welch and William Cummins at the Gallery of Caribbean Art

Robert Blackstone’s “Crystal City” May Now Crumble

Tony Feher’s Simple Pleasures

Italo Scanga: The Permanent Immigrant Shakes to Wake a Small, Sleepy Town – La Conner, WA

Flex with the Ex: David West’s High Tension at Chinatown Soup

Joe Minter’s Heavy Metal and a Look to Southern America’s Creative Citizenship at March Gallery

Catching Light with Rick Prol at the James Fuentes Gallery

Taking a Knee with Willis “Bing” Davis at the Contemporary Dayton

Death of a Consummate Mailer: Ed Higgins

“Magic and Happiness” at BedStuy’s Artshack

Victoria Dugger’s Out of Body at Sargent’s Daughters

Workbench: Liz Magor’s Pomp and Circumstance at Andrew Kreps Gallery

Hawkins Bolden’s Darkness

Finding Place: Freddie Brice

Jake McCord: Full Frontal at SHRINE

Melvin's Way: Computation Considerate Coloring Outside the Line

Every Soul is a Performance: Mystifarian Papo Colo’s Seduction of Monsters

Curtis Cuffie’s Lost Street: Is There Life After Death?

Hit the Streets: Otis Houston Jr.’s Call for Response

A Wake-Up Call: Alvin Baltrop at the Bronx Museum of the Arts

Frames Ain’t Square: Outsider Art Fair in New York