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John Schroeder
Artist John Schroeder passed away at home in Pasadena on Sunday afternoon. The cause of death was undetermined. He had recently gotten back to Southern California after settling the estate of his late mother, who had passed away a few months ago in Oregon.
John had a day studio at the Brewery Art Colony from where he made art and also sold fossils and other small collectibles, usually taken straiht from nature. John himself was a walking fossil of the 1960s, still with long hair and beard. He drove a pickup truck emblazoned with the political slogan Iraq is Vietnam in the Sand.
John was a great draftsman and an imaginative illustrator. He had a share of art world success in the early 1970s but was totally uninterested in playing any art world games. Some of his drawings were included in a 2000 group exhibition of Brewery Artists 12 Pack at Northern California's Shasta College. He curated a show of artists from the Santa Fe Art Colony at the Brewery's i-5 Gallery.
He had a playful sense of humor and deep spirituality based in nature. He was a kind man, which is more than you can say about most people. He was one of the first artists to have a studio at the Brewery Art Colony, a musty space on the second floor of the fermenting room (600 Moulton) which was always packed at artwalk.
Artist John Schroeder passed away at home in Pasadena on Sunday afternoon. The cause of death was undetermined. He had recently gotten back to Southern California after settling the estate of his late mother, who had passed away a few months ago in Oregon.
John had a day studio at the Brewery Art Colony from where he made art and also sold fossils and other small collectibles, usually taken straiht from nature. John himself was a walking fossil of the 1960s, still with long hair and beard. He drove a pickup truck emblazoned with the political slogan Iraq is Vietnam in the Sand.
John was a great draftsman and an imaginative illustrator. He had a share of art world success in the early 1970s but was totally uninterested in playing any art world games. Some of his drawings were included in a 2000 group exhibition of Brewery Artists 12 Pack at Northern California's Shasta College. He curated a show of artists from the Santa Fe Art Colony at the Brewery's i-5 Gallery.
He had a playful sense of humor and deep spirituality based in nature. He was a kind man, which is more than you can say about most people. He was one of the first artists to have a studio at the Brewery Art Colony, a musty space on the second floor of the fermenting room (600 Moulton) which was always packed at artwalk.
