M. John-Marc Purvis

M. John-Marc Purvis is a Chicago native, artist and educator who primarily works in image based media and installation that uses concepts driven from mental illness and perceptual psychology to produce paintings that both question and portray the myriad of depictions and visual stimuli brought on by it. Embracing vulnerability and discussing the stigmas surrounding revealing one’s mental health to others is a prime point of their most recent work. Though overall they investigate mental health’s affect on perception, and the senses through landscapes done primarily in oil. This is done with the hope of not only challenging what we consider to be a normal (neurotypical) view of nature of and life; by doing so they seek to invite others to empathize with a perspective that is not their own.