<b>Internationally Acclaimed Artist John Day’s Work Comes Hometo Malden</b><br><p> Following asuccessful solo show in Geneva, Switzerland, the work of Malden born artistJohn Day comes to the Malden Public Library’s Converse Galleries for a monthlong exhibition: <i>John Day: A Glimpse ofColor</i>. </p><p> John Day was born inMalden on May 27, 1932 and sold his first painting at the age of fifteen.  His father was an anesthesiologist and hismother was a classical pianist and music teacher. After graduating from MaldenHigh School (class of 1949) where he had already exhibited his talent for, and commitmentto, painting, he spent a year at Syracuse University‘s School of Art, beforetransferring  to Yale University’s Schoolof Art & Architecture. During his years at Yale, he studied with legendaryteacher and color theorist Josef Albers. In 1970 he became a Professor of Artat William Paterson College in New Jersey. </p><p> Over the next threedecades, Day tested and explored a number of different artistic styles, rangingfrom impressionistic landscapes, to collages, to precisely-blended colormeditations.  Many of his early collageswere torn-paper landscapes that reference the work of the nouveau réalistessuch as Raymond Hains from the 1960’s. His surrealist “Erebos” seriesillustrates his interest in the art and life of Ancient Greece. The abstractpaintings from the last phase of his life evoke the spiritual intensity of MarkRothko’s work.</p><p> John Day wonrecognition with numerous awards, prizes and grants including stays at Yaddoand the McDowell Colony, an Ingram Merrill Foundation grant, numerous firstprizes at judged exhibitions.  From 1961through 1984, he had an annual one-man exhibitions at galleries in New York, Connecticut,New Jersey, and Paris. He was also included in numerous group exhibitions,including those at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of ModernArt, the Brooklyn Museum in New York City; the American Embassy in London; theMusée Pompidou, the Foundation Maeght, and Marseilles’ Musée Cantini in France;the Guild Hall Museum in East Hampton, New York; the Montclair Museum in NewJersey; the Harmon Gallery in Naples, Florida.  He continued his devotion to serious art untilhis death in New York City on April 15, 1982, one of the early victims of the AIDSepidemic.</p><p>His paintings are found in the collections of the HirshhornMuseum and Sculpture Garden, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The BrooklynMuseum, the Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Musée Pompidou in Paris, and incorporate collections around the world. </p>

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<p><b>Internationally Acclaimed Artist John Day’s Work Comes Hometo Malden </b></p><p> Following asuccessful solo show in Geneva, Switzerland, the work of Malden born artistJohn Day comes to the Malden Public Library’s Converse Galleries for a monthlong exhibition: <i>John Day: A Glimpse ofColor</i>. </p><p> John Day was born inMalden on May 27, 1932 and sold his first painting at the age of fifteen.  His father was an anesthesiologist and hismother was a classical pianist and music teacher. After graduating from MaldenHigh School (class of 1949) where he had already exhibited his talent for, and commitmentto, painting, he spent a year at Syracuse University‘s School of Art, beforetransferring  to Yale University’s Schoolof Art & Architecture. During his years at Yale, he studied with legendaryteacher and color theorist Josef Albers. In 1970 he became a Professor of Artat William Paterson College in New Jersey. </p><p> Over the next threedecades, Day tested and explored a number of different artistic styles, rangingfrom impressionistic landscapes, to collages, to precisely-blended colormeditations.  Many of his early collageswere torn-paper landscapes that reference the work of the nouveau réalistessuch as Raymond Hains from the 1960’s. His surrealist “Erebos” seriesillustrates his interest in the art and life of Ancient Greece. The abstractpaintings from the last phase of his life evoke the spiritual intensity of MarkRothko’s work.</p><p> John Day wonrecognition with numerous awards, prizes and grants including stays at Yaddoand the McDowell Colony, an Ingram Merrill Foundation grant, numerous firstprizes at judged exhibitions.  From 1961through 1984, he had an annual one-man exhibitions at galleries in New York, Connecticut,New Jersey, and Paris. He was also included in numerous group exhibitions,including those at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of ModernArt, the Brooklyn Museum in New York City; the American Embassy in London; theMusée Pompidou, the Foundation Maeght, and Marseilles’ Musée Cantini in France;the Guild Hall Museum in East Hampton, New York; the Montclair Museum in NewJersey; the Harmon Gallery in Naples, Florida.  He continued his devotion to serious art untilhis death in New York City on April 15, 1982, one of the early victims of the AIDSepidemic.</p><p>His paintings are found in the collections of the HirshhornMuseum and Sculpture Garden, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The BrooklynMuseum, the Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Musée Pompidou in Paris, and incorporate collections around the world.  </p>

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