John Massee has been exhibiting his sculpture for 30 years in some 25 different venues. He’s had 10 one man exhibits and been in over 75 group exhibits.  His work is in the collections of the Albuquerque Museum and the Mabee Gerrer Museum of Art, as well as in many private collections throughout the world. He has resided in New Mexico since 1976.

“It is my experience that sculpture is capable of doing many things. It can enliven, enrich, fascinate, transport, intrigue, amuse, enoble, educate, involve and depict the hilarity of the human condition. At it’s best it can open worlds of joy and fascination in the soul of a viewer. It has the ability to transform a once dreary or anonymous space into one of magic and wonder. It can awaken in one a lust to discover more about the world.  Where one fits in it, and a desire to search out the wonders and glory that we are capable of in this magical universe. Sculpture is something that can and should be used for all the reasons mentioned above. If one person in ten thousand is transported out of their every-day woes and horrors then the labor, cost, and struggle to create that sculptural object will not have been in vain.”

John Massee cracks the hard shell of humor and exposes the raw rich nut of hilarity. His sculptures suffer for everyone in some general amusement park of the soul. He sets up battlements and bastions against the huns of despair, boredom, pomposity and the tyranny of the minimal. His work is a magical maximality of ancient image. He tips the overflowing cornucopia of wonder and satire. His hell is one where fear, shame and guilt are momentary lapses in a Rabelasian jumble of ideas, mythology and nonsense. His sculpture works on many levels of wit, intellect and the unquenchable joy inherent in the human condition.