John John Jesse is an illustrative painter from New York City's Lower East Side in the Juxtapoz gonzo-pop vein. Painting (pān'tīng in Art, is the practice of applying Color to a Surface (support base such as e The City of New York The Lower East Side is a Neighborhood in the southeastern part of the New York City borough of Manhattan. Juxtapoz Art & Culture Magazine is a Magazine created in 1994 by a group of artists and collectors including Robert Williams, C He often shows with artists like Esao Andrews. Esao Andrews is a painter Baker Skateboards illustrator/designer and Meathaus Collective member
Dropping out of school and leaving home to squat at the age of fifteen, he turned to art to keep from returning to drug addiction. He painted the girls he grew up with, citing the punk lifestyle of girls and drugs. Most of the people featured in his work are friends of his. They are generally nude or partially disrobed, in situations that are both fantastical and gritty, and could be described as a blending of Richard Kern's transgressive sexuality with Mark Ryden's dreamy femme playlands. Richard Kern (born 1954 in North Carolina) is a New York underground filmmaker writer and photographer Mark Ryden (b January 20, 1963 in Medford Oregon) is an American impressionist painter.
Jesse also played bass in the New York Crust punk band Nausea and designed posters and album art for bands like Agnostic Front. Crust punk (sometimes simply crust) is one of the evolutions of Anarcho-punk and Hardcore punk, mixed with distorted Extreme metal guitar Nausea was an American Anarchist Crust punk band from New York City 's C-Squat in the Lower Eastside of Manhattan active from 1985-1992 Agnostic Front is an American band that formed He currently plays guitar in the band Morning Glory. Morning Glory is one of the many bands to spawn from Choking Victim, led by Ezra Kire.