Multi media artist, Michael Jess, brings you this profile/short documentary on globe trotting Canadian artist, John Luna.
“Born in Victoria, where he completed programs at both the Victoria College of Art and the University of Victoria, Luna has spent the past nine years balancing a love of teaching with pursuits in painting, sculpture and installation work and writing art criticism.
Luna has exhibited and curated installations of painting in connection to poetry, video, sculpture and historical artifacts, in Victoria, Kelowna, Calgary (where he earned an MFA), Edmonton, Portland, San Diego and San Francisco, as well as publishing catalogue essays and criticism in Victoria, Vancouver, Calgary, Winnipeg, Toronto, Los Angeles and Jakarta.
Luna has taught at the Vancouver Island School of Art, the University of Victoria, the University of Lethbridge, the University of Calgary and the Metchosin International Summer School of the Arts, and is currently at Brentwood College in Mill Bay BC teaching art history and studio.”