John Y. Wind | Artist

Monuments to Everyone
Installation View
James Oliver Gallery, Philadelphia

M2E-037
12 x 19.5 x 5.5”
Plastic, plaster, wood, paint

M2E-022
5.25 x 12.5 x 3.5”
Plastic, plaster, wood, paint

M2E-035
8 x 12 x 5.5”
Plastic, plaster, wood, paint

M2E-041
24 x 12 x 3.5”
Plastic, plaster, wood, paint

M2E-020
8 x 12.5 x 3.5”
Plastic, plaster, wood, paint

Digital Collage, 2023

Key perspective, overlooking City Hall with it's monument to William Penn at the apex.
Digital Collage, 2023

M2E-005
5.25 x 7 x 5.5”
Plastic, plaster, wood, paint

M2E-011
5.25 x 12 x 5.5”
Plastic, plaster, wood, paint

M2E-015
5.25 x 12 x 5.5”
Plastic, plaster, wood, paint

M2E-016
6.5 x 12 x 6.25”
Plastic, plaster, wood, paint

M2E-016
6.5 x 12 x 6.25”
Plastic, plaster, wood, paint

Digital Collage, 2023

M2E-032
10.25 x 12 x 5.5”
Plastic, plaster, wood, paint

M2E-010
4.5 x 10.75 x 3.5”
Plastic, plaster, wood, paint

M2E-013
5.5 x 12.5 x 5.5”
Plastic, plaster, wood, paint

M2E-036
11 x 14 x 5.5”
Plastic, plaster, wood, paint

M2E-014
6.25 x 11 x 6.25”
Plastic, plaster, wood, paint

M2E-034
11 x 10.75 x 5.5”
Plastic, plaster, wood, paint

M2E-004
5.5 x 7 x 5.75”
Plastic, plaster, wood, paint

M2E-009
7.75 x 11 x 3.5”
Plastic, plaster, wood, paint

Digital Collage, 2023

M2E-006
6.5 x 7 x 6.25”
Plastic, plaster, wood, paint

M2E-007
5.75 x 12.5 x 3.5”
Plastic, plaster, wood, paint

M2E-025
7.25 x 10.75 x 7.5”
Plastic, plaster, wood, paint

M2E-021
7 x 12.5 x 6”
Plastic, plaster, wood, paint

M2E-002
5.5 x 7 x 5.5”
Plastic, plaster, wood, paint

M2E-001
6 x 7 x 6”
Plastic, plaster, wood, paint

M2E-023
9.25 x 8.5 x 5.75”
Plastic, plaster, wood, paint

Digital Collage, 2023

M2E-029
5.5 x 14.5 x 4”
Plastic, plaster, wood, paint

M2E-040
8 x 19.5 x 8”
Plastic, plaster, wood, paint

M2E-027
9.75 x 13.5 x 5.5”
Plastic, plaster, wood, paint

M2E-038
12 x 16 x 6.75”
Plastic, plaster, wood, paint

M2E-028
10.5 x 12.75 x 5.5”
Plastic, plaster, wood, paint

M2E-030
10.25 x 14.25 x 5.5”
Plastic, plaster, wood, paint

M2E-024
10 x 8.5 x 5.5”
Plastic, plaster, wood, paint

Pellegrino - 14 1/2 x 16 x 5 1/2"
Diet Coke - 10 1/2 x 14 x 7"

Digital collage 2022

9 x 19 x 5 1/2" each

13 1/2 x 19 x 10"

Digital Collage

7 x 13 x 7"
10 x 19 x 10"

Mixed media in bell Jar

In 2015 I participated in an artist residency at the Slade School of Fine Art in London. It triggered emotional reflections about my dual Israeli & American identity, and the realization that my parents, born to Jewish, Eastern European emigres in British Palestine, grew up under the influence of the Crown-- high tea and English piano teachers on the one hand, underground resistance and nation-building on the other.

My Nelson’s Column evolved from a subsequent series of work about Empire, monuments, and heroes; Except my column is not made of marble and bronze, but rather from the building blocks of my own life-- vessels that once held pills and cremes, now overflowing with plaster, becoming Art with a capital A, like a Rodin or a Tom Sachs. It is surmounted by a 3-D printed selfie, making light of a mythic narrative while simultaneously trying to find my place in it, both geographically and artistically.