John Mckanna is a Brooklyn-based painter working in Greenpoint who has shown his work through multiple editions of Greenpoint Open Studios. His paintings, worked in oil and pencil on canvas, layer what he describes as multiple and scrambled sources of color and form, exploring how one's relationship to light, color, and form can transcend conventional artistic and linguistic grammars. He frames the resulting compositions as attempts to evoke instinctive, pre-verbal responses to light rather than fixed narratives, leaving room for viewers to interpret the work on their own terms.