JOHN K. GRANDE

"Cultural identity is as necessary to humanity as the sun is to nature, for it guides us to identify who we are, where we have come from and where we are going. The impulse to create reflects an implicit desire to improve the world around us. Art can no longer be purely object based. The limits imposed on us by nature are guiding us to establish a new global ethic that involves the mutual respect between living things. Art draws upon that flow of energies that is part of the process of life, the procreative core of our need to transform, enrich express" from "The Spiritual in Art linking Nature to it All" by John K. Grande/1997

Writer and art critic John Grande's reviews and feature articles have been published extensively in Artforum, Vice Versa, Sculpture, Art Papers, British Journal of Photography, La revue Espace, Public Art Review, Landscape Architecture, Fifth Season Magazine, ECOARTNET, Ceramics Monthly, Etc, Fiberarts, Art On Paper, Vie des Arts and Circa (Ireland).

Upcoming projects include curating an international Earth Art sculpture show at the Royal Botanical Gardens Sculpture in Ontario and an International Sculpture symposium titled Culture Sculpture Sculpture symposium at Sackville, New Brunswick, international culture capital of Canada for 2008. As well new books to be released in 2008 include Art Allsorts; writing on Contemporary Art, and an edition titled Stonehenge & Avesbury with some words by John Grande and Block Prints by Arnold Shives.

The author of Balance: Art and Nature (Black Rose Books, 2004), Intertwining: Landscape, Technology, Issues, Artists (Black Rose Books, 1998), Jouer avec le feu: Armand Vaillancourt: Sculpteur engagé (Montreal: Lanctot, 2001), and Art Nature Dialogues (SUNY Press, New York, 2004), John Grande has co-authored Nils-Udo: Art with Nature (Wienand Verlag / Ludwig Forum, Koln, Germany 2000), Le Mouvment Intuitif; Patrick Dougherty and Adrian Maryniak (Atelier 340, Bruxelles); Nature the End of Art: Alan Sonfist Landscapes (2004).

Mr. Grande¹s Art Nature Dialogues was published by SUNY Press in 2004 as was A Biomass Continuity in collaboration with Coco Gordon (Go If Press). Mr. Grande’s Dialogues in Diversity: Art from Marginal to Mainstream was published in 2006
Mr. Grande is a Contributing Editor to Sculpture (USA) and Art Papers (Atlanta) and English section Editor for Vie des Arts Magazine.

His poetry has been published in Revue des animaux and Vice versa Magazine. John Grande has published numerous catalogue essays on selected artists and has taught art history at Bishops University.

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John Grande's interview with NILS-UDO (From "ART NATURE DIALOGUES"/2004)

John K. Grande/Smart Project Space (Excerpt from Discussion on Ecological Thinking/2008