JOHNNY "PAINTERPANTS" RUTLEDGE

Johnny Rutledge is a multimedia artist using found objects, projection, painting and printmaking with a career in marketing and commercial directing. His fine art work is narrative and figurative while being tied to cultural and social issues. He brings skills informed by a long career as a Creative Video Director, most recently with Cadillac, to the execution of his art. As an illustrator he’s made over twenty-five alternative movie posters for the past ten years with the Texas Theatre in Oak Cliff. He was the Creative Director for the nonprofit immersive performance community storytelling organization Artstillery, the first to be recognized by the Nasher Sculpture Center as a "Nasher Public" work. This spring he was the Creative Director and Lead Video Artist for Artstillery’s newest work at the Embarco building Fair Park coordinating five projections across the 19 foot floor to ceiling screens in the  27,000 square foot building, focused on telling the stories of children in war zones.

Johnny also brings together artists once every two months for Art X Happens, an open event for visual artists to bring work to discuss, mentor and find collaborators for projects. He has a BFA from UTA as a filmmaker and he is a graduate of Book T. Washington High School Arts Magnet in Dallas TX.