John C. Kuchera is an American painter of Slovak origin. He uses various mediums to create his paintings but prefers pen, ink, oils and acrylic.
Background
John C. Kuchera was born on November 14, 1962, in Cleveland, Ohio, United States. He is a son of the painter John Kuchera.
John C. Kuchera has two sisters named Kathleen and Maryann. They also followed his father’s steps and became painters.
At the early 1980s, the artist relocated to New York City, New York, United States.
Education
John C. Kuchera did his studies in New York City.
He studied at the Pittsford Sutherland High School. Then, he pursued his artistic education at the Columbia University and Cooper Union College. He also learned comic art (cartoons) at the Pratt Institute.
John C. Kuchera's artistic career is related not only to painting but to many other activities in this field. So, in different times he had worked as a curator at the American Painters Gallery and New York Fine Art Auction, a chief executive officer of the Cabaret Printing company, a managing director of the Art Collection NYC and as a professor of art.
In 2015, Kuchera became a director of the Black Door Gallery in New York City, New York, United States.
His paintings include the series called Young Guns, SAMO, Vision Stories and one of the recent dubbed Creation. There are canvases which depict a marvellous magical world. They were exhibited in 2014 at the show called the 20” x 20” which took place in Chelsea, Manhattan, New York City.
As a painter, he is nowadays living and working at his studio in the Harlem neighbourhood of New York City, New York, United States.