John Ayes News Update

Artist’s Statement

My art is an exploration of my Hispanic cultural heritage, traditions and History. I share my art freely to foster a cultural exchange and to initiate a positive educative process that in the end creates a cultural foundation for Hispanic children who would come after me.

My inability to perceive primary colors has given birth to a strange new artistic science and has given form to my new genre, Hyper Visualism; an art that depicts subjects of our world in an easy way. My intent isn’t to create images that are photo realistic. My aim is to create images that are instead photo intense.

Artist’s Biography

Ayes was born in New York City. He began drawing when he was three years of age. He began painting within the medium of oils when he was 14. At the tender age of 14 Ayes won an honorable mention at the New York International Art Show’s, Da Vinci Art Competition. Soon his teachers would encourage him to attend the High School of Visual Arts. There he learned the basics of art and design relative to

advertising art, but his heart was always in fine arts.

He then went to the School of Visual Arts to formally study painting. There he discovered that they couldn’t teach him because of his color perception deficiency.

Ayes first oil paintings were executed using monochromatic techniques, using one Color to depict subjects within a full range of values from the color’s lightest to its darkest tones. Many years were spent in perfecting and analyzing his medium and how he could push it to its limits. He studied optics and the effects of reflected and refracted light. Then he began adding more colors to his palette orchestrating a multitude of variations of monochromatic colors upon his canvases.

Ayes heritage is a mixture of Puerto Rican Taino Indian, Sephardic Jew, Spaniard, Basque and Scotish. ll of the former have influenced in art. Ayes Art has been showcased within national magazines, many local newspapers, local and national television stations, (Fox 31 News, The Melbourne Arts Channel and Access Osceola local tv on Brite House

Ayes Art has been exhibited from Daytona, Florida to Miami Florida. Museums: The Polk County Historical Museum and the Museum of Science and Art of Melbourne, Florida.

Ayes Art was given the great honor of having his biography and painting, Mi Orgullo, My pride appear within third grade school text books in Puerto Rico, 2005.

Ayes Art is in the collection of:

Governor Jeb Bush

Attorney General, Hon. Charley Crist

Ms. Dora Casanova de Toro La Prensa Orlando

The Lakeland Art Guild

The Osceola Center for the Arts

The Maitland Art Center

And within many private collections in Florida, Colorado, California and New York.

Awards:

Best of Show, the Orlando Museum of Art 2005

Best of Show, The Osceola Center for the Arts May Show, 2003

First Place, The Lakeland Art Guild