John Brady:
CLASS OF 1970
Pascack Hills High SchoolClass of 1970
Montvale, NJ
Philadelphia College of ArtClass of 1974
Philadelphia, PA
Woodcliff Lake Elementary SchoolClass of 1966
Woodcliff lake, NJ
Washington Elementary SchoolClass of 1964
Westwood, NJ
John's Story
Life
I have been an artist as long as I can remember. I studied art in highschool, I studied it in college, I married an artist, and until I retired due to poor health, I made a living as a Photoshop artist specializing in retouching and color editing, working on such magazines as Vogue, Vanity Fair, Details, Glamour, Art in America and various publications and ad work for good ol' Martha Stewart.
School
I came, I saw and I left with only minor contusions, multiple hematomas and a wee hair of petechial hemorraging about the eyeballs.
College
When I started at PCA, my three foundation teachers (painting, drawing and 3d design) were into Zen Macrobiotics and many of us students also entered that metaphysical realm. Lots and LOTS of brown rice and sea weed, however across town in South Philly those cheese steaks kept calling my name.
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I was a dormitory "adviser" (floor cop, shrink, svengali, etc.) for three years. I found that very rewarding.
By far the best thing about PCA was meeting my wife Valerie there. Married 30 years now and still trying to make sense of the whole thing. Long live love and art too.
Workplace
Well, I spent most of my years at work working nights, chasing deadlines. I did paste-up, some typesetting, offset camera, stripping and contacting.
In 1991 I began working in Adobe Photoshop, which was quite new at the time and within a few weeks of editing images on the Mac, I began to dream in Photosop. Really, it was love at first sight. As a result I spent the last 12 years of work doing image editing: retouching and color correction which I loved to do, until complications related to a kidney transplant in 1998 sidelined me in July of 2002.
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