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John Guy Petruzzi’s Watercolors Respond to Environmental Issues

LA-based artist John Guy Petruzzi creates detailed watercolor paintings filled with illustrations of the natural world. While his figurative depictions of various bird and plant species are rendered with the precision of scientific drawings, the milieus these characters find themselves in morph into abstract shapes that reveal the cloudy, liquid characteristics of his chosen medium. Petruzzi works on a polypropylene synthetic paper to amplify his work's preoccupation with environmental issues. Lately, he has created entirely abstract works filled with dripping pigments. "My latest series, 'SPILLSTONES,' exploits the materiality of poured pigment to recall ongoing cycles of resource extraction," said the artist.

LA-based artist John Guy Petruzzi creates detailed watercolor paintings filled with illustrations of the natural world. While his figurative depictions of various bird and plant species are rendered with the precision of scientific drawings, the milieus these characters find themselves in morph into abstract shapes that reveal the cloudy, liquid characteristics of his chosen medium. Petruzzi works on a polypropylene synthetic paper to amplify his work’s preoccupation with environmental issues. Lately, he has created entirely abstract works filled with dripping pigments. “My latest series, ‘SPILLSTONES,’ exploits the materiality of poured pigment to recall ongoing cycles of resource extraction,” said the artist.

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