Jon Plapp 1938-2006
no thanks 1995 76 x 84cm
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Jon Plapp 1938-2006
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no thanks 1995 76 x 84cm
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| Born in Melbourne in 1938, Jon Plapp obtained a BA from Melbourne University in 1959. He left Australia in 1962 for further study in the United States, and obtained a PhD in psychology from Washington University, St Louis Missouri, USA, in 1967. It was at Washington University’s Department of Fine Arts that Plapp began to study life drawing and painting, from 1966 to 1968. In 1968 Plapp settled in Toronto, Canada, where he emerged as an artist. Through the David Mirvish Gallery, Plapp met New York painters Frankenthaler, Poons, Motherwell, Olitski and Dzubas, sculptor Anthony Caro, and Toronto painter Jack Bush. As a result of his exposure to these artists and their work, the New York school of post-painterly abstraction became the strongest influence on Plapp as he began to develop a professional identity as an artist. In 1976 Plapp shared a studio with Toronto painters David Bolduc and Paul Sloggett. Jon Plapp returned to Australia and settled in Sydney in 1977. Jon had regular solo exhibitions at Watters Gallery as well as being involved in numerous group exhibitions. |
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