Prints and misc. art by Johnny Vasquez: Updated every day

It never struck me when I was growing up, making hundreds of silly drawings of cartoon and video game characters on computer paper at home, and filling my school notebooks with doodles instead of class notes how serenely beautiful the idea of responding to all external stimuli through art was. I view myself and my brain as a converter and creator of sorts. Without discretion, no one telling me what and what not to pay attention to, I pick up everything, churn it around in my brain and spit out an object, the end result of the transformation that these ideas go through. That is my life and I have accepted the responsibility of an artist in this world, to do everything in my power so that my ideas can escape my brain and manifest themselves in whichever form they will take. I am a martyr for the conceptual idea. I shine when it comes to processing information, and in light of that same process based way of thinking, I find myself shining in the field of printmaking. My work is heavily based in analytical forms, geometric analysis, line and spacial relationships. My images are usually black and white, because color is usually useless in saying what I want to say. I twist and warp the imagery I am exposed to so much that they are often nonsensical, grotesque and bizarre, as true evidence of how overwhelmed I get sometimes in my exploration and understanding of my world and my culture. I hope you enjoy the strange world of a kid genius who instead of studying, watched way too many cartoons and played too many videogames.