Biography

Painter, potter, and sculptor John Fleenor has been a working artist since 1990 when he gave up pursuit of an economics degree to live profit and loss: a career in pottery. Eleven years later Fleenor abandoned his successful pottery business, Flying Hippo Pottery, and moved from Eugene, Oregon to Pittsburgh where his focus is painting. Fleenor also assists Sculptor James Simon construct his monumental sculptures.

BFA Painting : University of Oregon, 2001

Drawing : Teaching Pittsburgh Center for the arts
Pottery : Sweetwater Center for the Arts
Painting : Touchstone Center for Crafts

Coca Café, Pittsburgh, Pa—“duo” May-June 2008
Simon Sculpture Studio, Pittsburgh, Pa—“the Amazing Ceramics on Gist Street” part of NCECA conference, March 2008
Space, Pittsburgh, Pa—“In Full Bloom”, March-May 2007
The Beehive, Pittsburgh, Pa—“The Pittsburgh Debacle”, June 2006
The Digging Pitt Gallery, Pittsburgh, Pa—“inside out four”, November 2005
The Digging Pitt Gallery, Pittsburgh, Pa--“American Dreams”, March 2005
The Spinning Plates, Pittsburgh, Pa--“about the bunny” March 2005
Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, Pa “AMP Exhibition”, March 2004
Gallery Chiz, Pittsburgh, Pa--“Autumn Painting Show”, September 2002
The Spinning Plates, Pittsburgh, Pa--“The Spinning Plate Painting Invitational”, December 2001
Laverne Krause Gallery, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR-- “Recent Drawings and paintings” March 2001
Laverne Krause Gallery, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR--“Paintings and Drawings” October 2000
Willkins Gallery, Eugene, OR--“Drawings and Paintings” December 1999

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, January-March 2008, paid for by a grant from the Vira I Heinz Endowment

The Vira I Heinz Endowment, Pittsburgh Pa, January 2008