John Otte is an American Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1936. John Otte is given not to grand gestures but rather to quietly commanding ones. It is an art of precisely composed images and finely wrought textures. Most of Otte’s works are intimate in scale, but even the larger ones express a sensibility attuned to the intimate, rewarding scrutiny and familiarity with the art-historical and cultural references he invokes.