Art Auction - Arms Around the Child, Timed

Johan Wahlstrom from Stockholm, Sweden – his practice is making a conscious effort to describe the social political landscape of our contemporary world, commenting and exploring our social lives.

‘In my work I am making a conscious effort to describe the social political landscape of our contemporary world.’ 

Born in Stockholm, Sweden but now lives and works in Jersey City, USA.

A fifth-generation artist on his mother’s side, art was in his blood. His first creative direction was rock and roll, where he had a successful and long career as a keyboardist and singer, touring with Ian Hunter, David Bowie, Graham Parker, Mick Ronson and many Scandinavian artists. After 18 years, the rock and roll life caught up with him so he moved to a small village in France and did nothing but paint for seven years, part of that time under the tutelage of Swedish artist, Lennart Nystrom for 7 years. Wahlstrom’s narrative paintings of heads and torsos are inspired by cryptic, often ironic social critiques that he collects on scraps of paper in his studio.