John Obuck lives and works in New York City. He has exhibited his work nationally and internationally, and has been awarded the Rome Prize Fellowship in Painting, the Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant, and the Louis Comfort Tiffany Grant. His work is included in the collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, the Cincinnati Art Museum, Chase Manhattan Bank and General Electric Corporation. His work at Flatbed Press explored forms derived from north-African, Islamic patterns, and combines his interests in patterning and symbols.