About the artist:

John E. Spears was born in El Paso, Texas and spent his summer months with his grandparents in Van Horn, Texas. This is where his grandmother took him for oil painting lessons at the age of ten to the old Clark Hotel. In 1975 he graduated with distinction in studio fine arts from Stanford University. He was taught by well-known artists Nathan Oliveira and Frank Lobdell. Upon graduating from Stanford, he established a studio in San Francisco and completed numerous commissions on the West Coast, some of which included Apple Computer’s first headquarters in Cupertino, CA, Artelonics and Price Waterhouse. His works were selected in the international competition by the curator Henry Hopkins for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and he also had a solo show at the San Jose Museum of Art. During the 1980's he moved to Santa Fe where he became the director of the largest indoor/outdoor gallery and sculpture garden in the Southwest, the Shidoni Gallery & Foundry.

During this period he furthered his exploration in the screen process as a method for painting. In the last 30 years he has resided on the East Coast in New Jersey and completed numerous commissions throughout the region including Nabisco Brands, Rutgers University, Montclair State University, George Segal Gallery, DuPont Corp., Ortho, Johnson & Johnson, Merck, Smith-Kline Beecham, HOK, Skidmore Owings & Merrill, the Hellier Group, IBM, Neustar and Turner Construction, to a name a few. He has shown in the Morristown Museum and the Hunterdon Museum in New Jersey as well as most recently in the Pennsylvania New Hope Arts Center.