John Roelofs is an artist living in Los Angeles. He works primarily in watercolor on paper, with the addition of graphite, acrylic gels, and platinum leaf. He examines imagery created for scientific analysis through an aesthetic lens while scavenging for compositional devices that can be employed in his work. The idea that certain visual motifs repeat on vastly different scales, from the cosmological to the microscopic, informs his approach to looking. Pulling from his source material he renders abstraction through the representation of the unseen, excavating and repurposing what lies beyond the limits of perception.

John is also the owner of Curve Line Space (est. 2016), a fine art framing studio and gallery in the Cypress Park neighborhood of Los Angeles.