Vitale’s paintings are explorations of the human experience that blend organic shapes, lines, plateaus, and rich color palettes into captivating visual narratives. What unfolds from his investigations are isolated experiments, each embodying textured negative space. Vitale is meticulous in his intention. After weeks of unresolved work, a single minor mark, small color change, or shift in a shape’s boundary can realize the finality of a painting. Using a combination of acrylic, house paint, enamel, pencil, canvas scrap, and oil sticks to create his works, Vitale layers materials to create tangible archives of time and experience. Vitale’s work aims to deconstruct and compartmentalize the chaos that imbues society daily. He views each painting as a learning experience - an exploration of the environment that encompasses him; a meditation on complex human problems, and a search for answers to these conundrums. This process is how Vitale learns to make sense of the incessant inventory of information that one must ingest. John Vitale was born 1979. He is a largely self-taught abstract painter. Vitale is based in Brooklyn, NY where he lives with his partner and works in his studio in Sunset Park. He has exhibited up and down the West Coast, in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and New York City. Vitale’s work is in public and private collections in many parts of the world.