11 x 15 Watercolor and Gouache on Paper

John Brattin is a New York-based visual artist and filmmaker whose work elaborates haunting mental locations through a variety of mediums beginning primarily with drawings, which are then utilized as a basis for experimental film works. These settings present a departure from the ordinary world to a place existing mostly in darkness. Drawings are the basis of his uncanny dream worlds in which artifice and the unconscious seem to merge. Often, idyllic childlike settings seamlessly curdle into unsavory nightmares, evoking fear, disorientation, and ultimately loss. His current body of work, over 200 drawings, forms the basis of "A Year Unimportant," an imagined experimental film.

Exhibitions include, "Untitled" Art fair 2012, Miami with Participant Inc; "Nobody gets to see the Wizard not nobody not no how", 2010, Anna Kustera NY; "Technically Sweet", 2008, Overgaden, Copenhagen, DK; "Half Forgotten", 2007, Autoversion, NY; "The Triumph of Night", 2006, Participant Inc., NY.

His work has been screened internationally, including "Melodrama", Sara Meltzer NY; "Greatest Hits", Wayward Canon, London, 2006; "Film Society", Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA, 2006; "The Fruit Farm Film Festival", McMinnville, OR, 2002; "Promises, Promises", Gallery Union Screen and Art, Vienna, Austria, 2001; "The American Century", The Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, 2000; "Warhol's Grave", Mecano Amsterdam, 1999.

Brattin was the recipient of the Rema Hort Mann Artists Grant, 2006, and Harvestworks Artists in Residence, 2007 and the recipient of a film commission from The Danish Council of Arts, 2007.