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Jon Sarkin is a prolific, even compulsive, artist who creates elaborate drawings and paintings cluttered with words and images. His work has been featured in The New Yorker, The New York Times, ABC Primetime, This American Life, GQ, ArtNews, and galleries in New York, Los Angeles, and around the world. His lives and works in Gloucester Massachusetts.
Featured Stories
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Sarkin’s Art Available Now
19 April 2011 11:20 AM | 2 CommentsArt Dealer Ruth Ann Traylor, has setup a website dedicated to Sarkin’s work. Here you can view pieces available for purchase, and view facts and articles related to Sarkin. Check…
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Sarkin’s Biography now available on Amazon
18 April 2011 9:36 AM | No CommentsShadows Bright as Glass: The Remarkable Story of One Man’s Journey from Brain Trauma to Artistic Triumph [Hardcover] http://www.amazon.com/Shadows-Bright-Glass-Remarkable-Artistic/dp/1439143102 …
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Sarkin Paints Live at the MET with Guster (video)
10 March 2011 8:14 AM | No CommentsSarkin painted a piece live onstage at the MET while Guster plays “Jesus On the Radio” from Guster’s new album featuring cover art by Sarkin–Easy Wonderful. …
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TerminARTors
19 January 2011 12:17 AM | No CommentsTerminARTors features Sarkin as an artist on their website. Check out his biography and showcase, and art available for purchase. Check it out here …
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Tormented By Genius – full video
11 January 2011 8:01 AM | 4 CommentsDiscovery Science Channel Documentary Special about Jon Sarkin. Produced for Science Channel by Screaming Flea Productions, Inc. Aired 12/15/2010. …
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My Strange Brain
22 November 2009 12:07 AM | No CommentsOriginal Link: My Strange Brain from Jon Sarkin on Vimeo. …
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Accidental Artist 4 of 4: Sketchbook
27 October 2009 2:35 PM | No CommentsOne of thousands of sketchbooks compulsively drawn by Sarkin. Feature video as a part of a feature article as written by Amy Nutt for the NJ Star Ledger. Videography by Andre Malok.
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ABC Medical Mysteries
20 October 2009 2:35 PM | No CommentsABC Primetime feature about Sarkin's extraordinary singlular ability to create art.
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Pulitzer Finalist: The Accidental Artist
10 April 2009 12:46 PM | 1 CommentThis article on Jon Sarkin was a Pulitzer finalist. The link below will take you to a flash-interactive website. http://www.nj.com/starledger/sarkin/ The New Jersey Star-Ledger has published “The Accidental Artist…,”
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The Artist Formerly Known As Dr. Sarkin
04 April 2008 12:58 PM | No CommentsJon was featured as the third act (“The Artist Formerly Known As Dr. Sarkin”) in the August 11th edition of This American Life, entitled “Nobody’s Family Is Gonna Change.” Listen:…
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New York Archive
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JIM AND COLD SWEAT
Posted on August 6, 2011 | No CommentsJim and Cold Sweat, cos that’s what everybody in Alphabetville calls him cos every time that James Brown song Cold Sweat comes on, he goes absolutely apeshit. One time I… -
JIM IN EDGE CITY
Posted on March 8, 2011 | No CommentsDear Lou, Another rainy night here in Edge City. I’m not making this up; I really *am* in Edge City, California, on the coast about ten miles or so from… -
JIM IN NEW YORK
Posted on February 18, 2011 | No CommentsJim looks at what it’s come down to. He was in New York on business. He’d rather not say what it was. He had just come from his meeting when… -
JIM AND THE DRY CLEANING
Posted on January 31, 2011 | No CommentsJim wished that he could relate to what she was saying but the truth was that he was deaf to her verbal marksmanship. At least that’s what she thought about… -
Extended Biography
Posted on December 20, 2010 | 1 CommentEXTENDED BIOGRAPHY: What follows is a narrative of my life that fleshes out the skeletal details found in a "just-the-facts" resume-type bio -
Birdseye goes video: Local film group hits big time with Guster video work
Posted on August 19, 2010 | No CommentsJoann Mackenzie, Gloucester Daily Times, Mass. Aug. 17–While Gloucester deliberates the future of the old Birdseye building, members of the city’s creative community have quietly recognized in its vast, raw… -
“How My Disability has Influenced my Work”
Posted on November 19, 2007 | No CommentsIn 2006 Sarkin was nominated for a Wynn Newhouse Foundation award for artists with disabilities. As part of the application, he composed the below essay to describe his disability. Sarkin … -
Local Artist Honored For Overcoming Disability With His Art
Posted on November 10, 2006 | No CommentsGloucester Daily Times Jon Sarkin has received a great deal of attention from the media in the past year, but his strangest experience was seeing his own face on a… -
What’s your Story? – NYC mini-documentary
Posted on October 27, 2005 | No CommentsMini Documentary detailing Sarkin's trip to New York City to create a large work in a very short amount of time. -
Art Meets Fashion
Posted on May 7, 2003 | No CommentsNew York Times David and Sybil Yurman, both artists, have long supported the artistic community in New York and throughout the country. This year they embrace Jon Sarkin, the prolific…


