Volusia County Courthouse - John Gurbacs

Terrain Aqua, 2009
Oil on canvas

John Gurbacs
Tampa, Fla.
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A professional artist since 1975, John Gurbacs has worked on a wide range of projects and commissions, including the restoration of the Tampa Theater and Pinellas Trail Mural Project. His paintings are in private, corporate and museum collections. Gurbacs has received numerous awards, including the National Endowment for the Arts Regional Fellowship Award for painting and an Individual Artist Fellowship Award from the State of Florida.

"In my paintings, I am interested in showing the similarities and contrasts between forms both natural and man-made. This has led me to develop imagery that reflects on a range of issues, from social to environmental concerns, to meditations on the patterns and actions of nature. By showing a shifting of scenes, events and forms merge, while at the same time retaining their own individual identity. The interactions between the scenes and images help define new relationships and meaning. Working with this attitude reveals for me new interpretations and ways of seeing the world." – John Gurbacs