Murals     What's New     Short Documentary     About John Pugh     Online Store     Contact Us Murals in alphabetical order Anchorage, Alaska Barbi Benton Residence Bishop, CA (1) Bishop, CA (2) Cafe Bravo Cafe Trompe L'oeil California Design International Deco Room Dolphin Room Illusion Dublin Crossroads Project (CA) El Camino Hospital Great Bear Cafe Illusionary Doors and Portals John Pugh's Art Studio Kaiser Permanente, California Los Gatos (7.1), California Los Gatos (Colonnade), California Mandarin Gormet, Cupertino Miami Merced, California Moore Technologies Moss Canyon Palm Desert, CA Palo Alto Medical Facility, CA Park Meadows Shopping Center Pomepeian Niches Root Series Rotorua, New Zealand Sacramento San Jose, CA Sarasota, Florida Stanford Shopping Center Taylor Hall, Chico State University Tehachapi, CA Trespasser, (residential) Twentynine Palms University of Alaska University of Northern Florida Victor Vallery Community College Winslow, Arizona --------------------------------------------------------- Dossier on John Pugh Cause of investigation, suspicious artwork.     Warning; Illusionary art of the quality displayed below has repeatedly caused deleterious side effects and must be considered hazardous. The artist discalims all liability for bodily injury, loss of life, and property damage resulting from the viewing of these paintings. By examining these works of art, the viewer waives any and all claims against the artist for such injuries and damages. The Artist affirms that no devious plan or intention to cause harm was involved in the creation of his "artwork." --------------------------------------------------------- April 1981    Taylor Hall, CSUC 1. Soon after the mural was complete a woman employee that worked upstairs across the street from Taylor Hall called the administration and seriously complained and asked when they were going to fix the wall. 2. It was also reported by the C.S.U.C. public affairs officer Bob Pentzer that after the completion of the Taylor Hall project several rear-end accidents were reported occuring at the stop sign adjacent to the mural because motorists were distracted while viewing the broken wall illusion. March 1994    New York Art Expo, NY Witnesses working at a show of John Pugh's paintings reported three separate occassions where art patrons inadvertently broke wine glasses and spilled wine or beer as a result of trying to set their glass or mug on an illusionary shelf of a painted secret garden niche. August 1992    Carmel, California A waiter at "Forge in the Forest" tavern reported that an intoxicated female patron attempted to walk at full speed into a false stairwell opening located in a passage way known as "illusion alley". The woman was nearly knocked unconscious and suffered minor abrasions to her nose. February 1997    San Jose, California A complaint was lodged to a manager at Cafe Trompe L'oeil by a male restaurant patron that he had ineffectively attempted to introduce himself to female patron and had received the "silent treatment". He was unaware that woman he was talking to was a painted illusion. September 1998    Victor Valley College Library, CA Librarian Fran Elgin reported that a multitude of first time student viewers of the mural "The Joshua Tree Chronicles" notified her that the painted canvas was un-raveling and falling off the strecher frame.   ---------------------------------------------------------    HOME  |  SITE MAP  |  CONTACT  |  WEBSITE DESIGN   Copyright 2004 John Pugh & Associates Inc.