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Take Me Back by John-Mark Gleadow

$795.00$3,725.00

Limited Edition Gallery Wrapped Canvas in Multiple Sizes

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Take Me Back by John-Mark Gleadow

Image Size:  12″ x 24″, 24″ x 48″
Limited Edition Gallery Wrapped Canvas Giclee in Printer’s Proof, Artist Proof, and Sign & Numbered editions.  Artist Proof is hand embellished by the artist. Small edition sizes:

Released: 2024
12” x 24” Edition size: 1/195 – 195/195
24” x 48” Regular Edition size: 1/95 – 95/95
24” x 48” Artist Proofs: 1/25 – 25/25
Printers Proofs: 1/5

This artwork can be left unframed or would look great in a floater frame style.

Artist’s Notes

I had such a great time creating this painting! Having dealt with Hollywood several years ago, I wanted to do a piece based upon television since it’s been a big part of our lives. As I looked at some of the shows that have meant so much to me over the years, a natural progression developed from the shows of my youth to those that struck a chord with me in adulthood.

Mr. Rogers was very important to me growing up, so I wanted to begin with him. His kind nature and ability to speak directly to us as youngsters left an indelible mark on me and millions of others. M.A.S.H. was always on in our home in the evenings and the way it mixed humor and profound grief made a mark on me as well. We continue to watch it to this day, as a family. I came to know Cheers as I was entering adulthood and found there was nothing like it. The show drew me in with its witty humor and outstanding character development with an incredible ensemble cast. The portrait of Norm and Cliff simply makes me smile. I came to be a fan of Seinfeld after syndication and found it to be genius. It’s another show I continue to watch to this day although I’ve seen each episode multiple times – to me, it’s timeless and the cast is iconic. I adored Saturday Night Live later in high school and in college, with the cast of those years entertaining me and my friends like nothing else. Chris Farley was our favorite! He and Adam Sandler performing the Lunch Lady skit makes me smile as I think of it. Christopher Walken doing the More Cowbell scene has been something I’ve watched on YouTube time and again and it has brought me so much pleasure. Painting the soundproofed walls was challenging, but when it resonates with me and so many others like that, I know it must be in the painting. The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson is a show I’ve come to appreciate more as I’ve moved through adulthood. There was no one like him; he was born to be in that role and his guests were amazing. Including his show also allowed me to paint Betty White, whose contributions to television can’t be overstated. I couldn’t include the Golden Girls but painting her allowed me to make a nod to that show. Next came The Sopranos in my TV experience and it was very impactful. I’d never been so deeply into a character before Tony Soprano and found the writing to be second to none. Finally, Breaking Bad was a series that captivated me. Walter White’s part was performed so well that I felt I was in the series myself but never knew what would happen next. Again, I felt the writing was genius and the cast was perfect – it will stand the test of time.

I feel these legendary shows and actors should be celebrated and commemorated. They’ve meant so much to me over my lifetime and over the lifetimes of countless others. “Take Me Back” is a monument to these wonderful shows, to their writers, directors, and casts.

CV Art and Frame has access to a comprehensive collection of artwork by this artist. For additional details, please contact us at phone #: 317-873-2976 or email: info@cvartandframe.com


John-Mark Gleadow

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Born in 1976, John-Mark Gleadow had already achieved gallery representation by the time he received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Delaware in 1999. Renowned for his skill as a draftsman and ability for creating hyperrealstic oil paintings, he has gone on to garner various awards, solo shows and grants and has been met with commercial success in the numerous galleries carrying his work from coast to coast in the United States and beyond.

Early influences on the young artist were Rene Magritte, Salvador Dali and VerMeer. “I fell in love with the beauty of their imagery and have always been in awe of their amazing gift for depicting reality, or their version of it. My desire is that my abilities would be used for creating works that are beautiful and that, when viewed as a whole, convince the viewer not only that what they’re seeing is real but that there’s truth in it. For that reason I find strict photorealism a somewhat unsatisfying undertaking.”

Beginning with still lives, John-Mark’s paintings soon came to have portraiture as their backbone. With his mastery of the medium his trademark use of vibrant colors has come to the fore – an element of his work made the more fascinating due to his having to cope with his own colorblindness. His most recent series has fused the centuries old theme of painting book spines with his love of doing figurative work and has allowed him to broaden the thematic horizons of his paintings. “The wonderful thing about working in this vain is how limitless the subject matter can be and how it makes for a logical way of juxtaposing entirely different topics, producing a work of art that’s beautiful as a whole, not just aesthetically, but thematically as well.”

Additional information

Art Size

12 x 24, 24 x 48

Art Edition

Artist Proof, Printer's Proof, Signed & Numbered

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