John Alleyne is an artist from Barbados, currently based in New Orleans, LA. His work is rooted in an exploration of “freedom,” connecting his lived experience with an intuitive process of painting and silkscreen mark-making. Alleyne looks for perfection in the imperfect. The untraditional use of unhinged silkscreens and squeegees is utilized as mark-making tools to create painterly gestures of figurative abstraction. Within these gestures, Alleyne challenges notions of belonging, healing, beauty, manhood, and masculinity.
Alleyne graduated from SUNY Potsdam with a BFA in studio art and a concentration in digital design. He also has an MFA in studio art from Louisiana State University, with a concentration in painting and drawing. He has been Artist-in-Residence at Ox-Bow, ACRE, and Anderson Ranch Arts Center. He has exhibited work throughout various galleries and museums in the South, including the Masur Museum, the LSU Museum, and the Ogden Museum of Southern Art. He has also exhibited work in Savannah, New York, Los Angeles, Ireland, and Barbados. His work is featured in Issue #23 of The Hand Magazine, in addition to volumes of Studio Visit Magazine, and New American Paintings. Alleyne is an Assistant Professor of Art at Southern University and A & M College, and Program Leader of the Visual Arts program.
