John John Jesse
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 Oslo, 1991 | |
| Homebase | New York |
| Born | 1969 |
| Website | official site |
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Punk rocker and artist from the Lower East Side of New York City.
Born in New York City's Lower East Side, John John first gained notoriety as the founding member and bassist of the legendary influential political punk band Nausea. Nausea toured the D.I.Y. punk circuit all over the United States and Europe in the late 80's and early 90's, and released an LP and various 7" singles. Though since disbanded, to this day they still maintain a loyal following, and have influenced the next generation of the genre.
Having left school and home at 15 years old, equipped with no formal art training, he began doing posters, flyer art, and record sleeves for bands, and organizations like Agnostic Front, Destroy, and Squat or Rot Records, as well as Nausea. His unique style during this, "Black & White" period has been recognized on everything from Downtown New York light poles and t-shirts, to "Baby Demonica", his first published work of pen and ink drawings with Sirius in 2002 with limericks by Jesse, and Howie Pyro. This series of drawings laid the ground work for his distinct flair towards obsessive details, seductive women, (so gracefully rendered), and subjects that he has admitted are, "the angels and demons that have lived in my head."
John John Jesse has exhibited with: CBGB 313 Gallery, Bullet Space, Museum of Sex, Fuse Gallery, all in New York, Roq La Rue Gallery in Seattle, Wild Seduction in Miami, Perihelion Arts in Phoenix, Copro/Nason in Culver City California, and is represented exclusively by Art @ Large, New York City.
John John Jesse has had interview's, or reproductions, published in: Museums New York, Juxtapoz, High Times, New York Waste, Tear Magazine, Destroy All Monthly, Vampyre Magazine, Fetish, Swank, The Aquarian Weekly. He has a book forthcoming of his collected works.
