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** For Immediate Release: September 19, 2025
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** From Courtroom to Canvas: Civil Liberties Defender John W. Whitehead Explores Freedom and Technology Through Art
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PORT ST JOE, Fla. — John W. Whitehead, constitutional attorney, author, and founder of The Rutherford Institute, is sharing his lifelong engagement with freedom, technology, and human dignity ([link removed]) with the arts community in a new gallery exhibit featuring his recent series, Freedom Amputated ([link removed]) .

Known nationally for his legal advocacy and writings on civil liberties, Whitehead brings the same urgency and vision to his paintings. His recent series ([link removed]) —including Freedom Amputated, What Is Humanity?, and Biochip Entity—confronts viewers with haunting, abstract visions of dehumanization in an age of surveillance and technological control.

[link removed]’s mixed-media works will be on view at The Joe Center for the Arts ([link removed]) in Port St. Joe, Florida, as part of the gallery’s members’ exhibition. All works in the exhibition are available for purchase through The Joe Center for the Arts. A portion of each sale benefits the gallery.

“My work emerges at the intersection of abstraction, symbolism, and social critique,” Whitehead, the author of Battlefield America: The War on the American People ([link removed]) , explains. “Each canvas is less a picture than a question: a mirror held up to a society sleepwalking into technological servitude, and a reminder that resistance begins with reclaiming what makes us human.”
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Artist Bio: John W. Whitehead is an American painter whose work fuses abstract expressionist technique with a contemporary critique of technology and dehumanization. His paintings are populated by fractured figures, proliferating eyes, and geometric fragments, reflecting both the inner turmoil of modern existence and the outer pressures of a society increasingly governed by machines. His recent works ([link removed]) embody both elegy and warning: meditations on liberty, identity, and what it means to remain human in the machine age.

A digital gallery packet ([link removed]) with selected works and artist materials is available online: Freedom Amputated: Selected Works by John W. Whitehead (show catalog) ([link removed])

The show opens September 19 and runs through October 31.

Freedom Amputated Catalog: [link removed]

Exhibition Information:
The Joe Center for the Arts
201 Reid Ave, Port St. Joe, FL
Opening Reception: Sept. 19, 2025, 6-8 pm EST
Exhibition Dates: Sept. 19 - Oct. 31, 2025

For inquiries, pricing confirmation, or purchase arrangements, please contact:
Nisha Whitehead
[email protected]
(434) 466-6168

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