John McIntosh

John McIntosh was born in Port Huron, Michigan, in 1950.  He completed his B.A. at Whittier College, California, in 1973, and received his M.F.A. at the Yale University School of Art in 1977.  He has exhibited in Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, Houston, and Rochester.  His work can be found in the collections of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., and at the Museum Ludwig, Germany.  McIntosh’s elegant, highly saturated color photographs tread the line between art and commercial advertising.  With references to art history and a nod to Walker Evans, his clever compositions using ordinary objects and tools are psychologically loaded commentaries on taste and other aspects of contemporary life.

*Excerpted from Tools as Art: the Hechinger Collection, published by Harry N. Abrams Inc.