Having completed degrees in Architecture, a Masters of Fine Arts in Design and a foray as a saucier and metalsmith, Mr. Humphries is a visual artist, gardener, and designer focusing on translating one media form to another. The creative work takes the form of photo/watercolor constructions, carved wooden slabs, automatic poems, and multi-layered sounds. The subject of these studies are the desert southwest, a personal narrative coded in a tragic greek myth, and indigenous plant life. Currently directing graphic media at Miami University within the School of Fine Arts and living nearly off of the “food-grid” in urban Cincinnati, John has worked as a designer of architecture and other environments; including entertainment design in the US and Asia and recently awarded the Texas Society of Architect Studio Honor Award for photo/watercolor drawings extending the relationship of drawing, representation, and building. Dissemination of creative works has been through several exhibitions, panel member as design reviewer, and presentations at national conferences. Among these were a presentation at Hochschule in Rosenheim Germany, many presentations of work at the National Conference on the Beginning Design student, and a recent national award for creative scholarship with the Interior Design Educators Council for work allied with The National Creative Research Award for images related to the artists personal narrative title: “of mud, Earth, or Nothing”. Summer 2010 will include artist in residence fellowships and corresponding exhibitions and presentations at the Virginia Center for Creative Arts [June], Prairie Center for the Arts [July], Hambidge Center [August].

Significant exhibitions have been at the Dorothy Reed Gallery and Weston Galleries [Cincinnati, Ohio], Gallery See [Atlanta, Georgia], Hochschule Gallerie [Rosenheim, Gremany], Rosewood Gallery [Kettering, Ohio], and Arlington Museum of Art [Arlington, Texas].

Current gallery representation is with the Phyllis Weston Gallery in Cincinnati, Ohio found here:
http://www.phylliswestongallery.com/.