John Suchy was born in Williamsburg, Brooklyn , New York City in 1946. In 1952 his family moved out to Westbury, Long Island  where he grew up as a child. He was introduced to art at an early age by his Uncle John Graham, a self taught Artist. After High School he attended the School  Of Visual Arts  in Manhattan  and studied there for three years. After Graduating from Visual Arts he worked for the next twelve years in New York City , for large and small advertising agencies, learning and applying advertising, promotional and illustration skills.

During many of these years he attended night classes at the School of Visual Arts , the Pan American Art School and the Art Students League in N.Y.C. For three years he studied with John Gundelfinger at the School of Visual Arts who taught through many different lessons, not a style of drawing but a way of looking at objects no matter how complicated and breaking them down to their simplest form. While attending the Art Students League he studied figure drawing with the great Gustav Rehberger, who taught how to look and feel the motion of the figure in front of you. He also studied figure Drawing at the Art Students League with Michael Burbon & Anthony Palumbo.

During the seventies while living on the upper Westside of Manhattan, Suchy started drawing the elegant architectural landmarks as well as the Human landmarks of that neighborhood. He started displaying his Art on the sidewalks of Manhattan in 1974 either in neighborhood shows around town or by selecting various street corners in Manhattan and just opening up his display and looking out for the police. Now artist can display their art all around town but in those days you had to build your displays to be able to fold up in hurry. On the streets he met all kinds of people, and received many criticism and suggestions both good and bad about his art. If,  artist's wants to get a response from their art , the street's are the best place for that. His  severest critic was a dog, who used his display for a fire hydrant. Many people would stop and talk about art, themselves, and the many problems they faced living in the city. By displaying on the streets, Suchy received various commissions including portraits of people, brownstones, homes, boats, animals, landscapes, city scenes, & restaurants scenes (interiors & exteriors) . He also learned about many scenes of Manhattan that New Yorkers and Tourist from all around the world found special to themselves.

Since 1980 Suchy has been working in the Three Dimensional medium. He says, It has become a popular medium and I feel it gives a lot of pop to my work and adds more fun to the images.

Drawing is the backbone of everything that Suchy does. His love of detail and New York City, is obvious to people who enjoy his subject matter and his sense of humor.

Besides New York City Suchy has completed edition  of Washington DC & Las Vegas, Nevada, Washington, DC & Koln,Germany . 

In 2005, Suchy worked on many large  N.Y.C. 3-D Hand-painted wood sculptures. Many of them are displayed in a new & very successful, NEW YORK- Style Deli, called I'LL TAKE MANHATTAN in Stratford, Connecticut.

He is always working on new Drawings of New York City because he say's, "there are a million drawings to be done of this city & I hope I live to be 200 years old. However, I will be happy to reach 150.''

More art by this artist: 3D art