Collection: JonOne

" From the New York Underground to the international Art Scene "

A graffiti artist and painter of Dominican origin, John Andrew Perello alias JonOne, was born in New York in the 1960s. Growing up in Harlem, JonOne began tagging trains and walls in his neighbourhood at the age of seventeen. A self-taught artist, he went on to switch from the urban medium to canvas, a medium on which he was exhibited all over the world. His work is clearly influenced by his personal experience of hip hop, the street and the underground, as well as by the codes of modern painting.

With his innovative style, which goes beyond the laws dictated by graffiti, street art and urban culture, he creates “freestyle” works with no limits. The freedom he advocates above all else is his only watchword.

After moving to Paris in 1987 and working with artists of all stripes (Speedy Graphito, LAII, etc.), he began a new conquest: that of the canvas.

In his graffiti paintings, space is used entirely, and there is no such thing as a white void. Colour appears to be John's lifeblood, his palette rich and vivid, the tones and contrasts revealing subtle interplays of nuance. In a harmonious composition that appears as spontaneous as it is measured, the shapes knot and untie, undulate or become straight. His paintings bring together all contrasts: symmetry and asymmetry, repetition and unity.