Because I went to Chouinard, which then became CalArts, I became a multi-discipline artist – it wasn’t just about painting, it was about media and performance. John Van Hamersveld Read Quote
For me in my twenties, working in Hollywood was confusing in that the differences between what was fiction and what was nonfiction seemed to blur in my mind. Everything became a visual memory for me. I carried my Leica camera, giving opportunity to take pictures from my view. John Van Hamersveld Read Quote
What is Southern California but an ever-changing dreamscape backdrop for the postmodern ideal? The psychology of the postmodern world is the continual state of change as we live in its idealist manufactured dream, built by developers. John Van Hamersveld Read Quote
In this century of hyper-postmodern ideals, with the digital future, we’re segmented into different people, places, and things in a constant state of change. John Van Hamersveld Read Quote
The drawing of a ‘Pipeline Wave’ started with Billabong as a commission for their 2009 Pipeline Masters campaign. My ‘Pipeline Wave’ drawing later became the start of my ‘Waterworks Collection’ for gallery prints. John Van Hamersveld Read Quote
In 2008, ‘Surfer’s Journal’ published ‘The Next Wave’ image with an article. John Van Hamersveld Read Quote
While ‘The Endless Summer’ poster was designed at the Art Center College of Design in the contemporary style of its time, the image grew out of my relationship with Rick Griffin and our deep relationship to surf images. John Van Hamersveld Read Quote
Meeting everyone you wanted to know in the small surf industry, I saw how the surf trade was made up of characters that not only surfed, but were able to develop a business out of their relationship with their product and the ocean. John Van Hamersveld Read Quote
In 1971, I put together the ‘Johnny Face’ drawing as a concept, with the words as part of an image in a circle. Combining my abstract drawing with the headline ‘Crazy World Ain’t It’ created an emblem and became a button. John Van Hamersveld Read Quote
With the Larry Bertlemann portrait, I started with a photograph that I could use for it. I built the drawing’s identity to serve as a graphic identity. After a number of sketches, I went into my own abstract vernacular of drawn lines and shapes to create the composition for the poster design. John Van Hamersveld Read Quote
