Ann Arbor–born painter, sculptor, bookmaker and animator John Maggie (b. 1978) earned a BFA with a concentration in printmaking from Eastern Michigan University in 2004. Upon graduation, Maggie studied assemblage with Detroit Industrial Gallery's Tim Burke and traditional oil painting with Nanjing University Art Academy's Mingshi Huang. He works out of his studio in Hamtramck. Maggie's exclusively figurative paintings often depict grotesque studies of the male physique, incorporating visual realism strewn with abstracted impasto. Maggie has recently exhibited in Detroit, Ann Arbor and New York. The third installment of his Wizard flipbook series, Remarkable Wizard (2013), is in the permanent collection of the library of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
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