John Taylor Wagner (b. 1985. Maitland, Florida) lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.
Growing up throughout the United States, Wagner turned to drawing and painting to navigate his peripatetic lifestyle. While he often found his local natural environments as a colorful muse, he found himself most drawn to using visual art as a way to communicate his understanding of humanity amidst constant change throughout his life.
My paintings emerge from the intersection of personal and collective experience, blending figurative and abstract elements to explore life's fundamental tensions. Through deliberate interplay of color, form, and technique, I create atmospheric works that examine how we preserve our innate wonder in the face of society's demands. Each piece arises from both reverence and restlessness, expressing the raw contradictions of human experience through an autobiographical lens.