Sunday Evening Art Gallery — John Whitehead

John Whitehead was born in Demerara, Guyana. He came to the United States at age five and grew up in various inner-city neighborhoods on the west side of Oakland, California.Whitehead pursued a major in economics with a minor in art and in 1979, received his B.A. in economics with high honors. In 1986, he was awarded a master’s degree in economics with magna cum laude distinction from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

His sculptural works are the result of geometric abstraction and are primarily abstract expressions of beauty, nature, freedom, human progress, modern architecture, and cultural empowerment.

Whitehead’s body of work mainly consists of totemic sculptures built from fine-grained wood and mirror-polished stainless steel sculpture with varying geometric shapes, repeated forms, and negative spaces.These sculptures reflect a high level of geometric abstraction and often contain objects that are perched precariously atop each other, appearing to defy gravity and/or displaying a balance/imbalance dynamic.“I view my work as an evolving process that seeks to achieve three objectives,” Whitehead explains.“One, to provide sculpture that is imaginative and original; two, to provide sculpture that reflects meticulous craftsmanship and structural strength; and three, to provide sculpture with durable materials, which can reflect, absorb, or blend with their surrounding environments.”

More of John Whitehead’s sculptures can be found at https://www.johnwhiteheadsculptures.com/.