Chris Johanson
10 Sep - 18 Oct 2010
CHRIS JOHANSON
"Backwards Toward Forwards"
Sep 10 – Oct 18, 2010
STATEMENT FOR BACKWARDS TOWARD FORWARDS
"The exhibit is about restorative energy and healing through art.
At the center of the exhibit is a sculpture consisting of pieces of painted black wood.
They are pieces of life, fractures of energy and space.
Connected to the center sculpture are four groupings of free standing and connected paintings.
Each grouping has a grouping of four paintings.
Each group has a painting of a single house at night, a backwards abstract painting created backwards from the way I previously created wood paintings made from scraps of found wood, a painting of a figure that has just crossed over a bridge, and then a dyptic painting of a sun with a painting of the ocean underneath.
All four groupings are versions of the same four paintings.
They are stories of four life paths, Lenses of four ways of living.
Similar but unique is what we see.
All the wood was found.
The paintings were created over the last 1.5 years.
I will be at the opening if you have any questions about it."
Chris Johanson
"Backwards Toward Forwards"
Sep 10 – Oct 18, 2010
STATEMENT FOR BACKWARDS TOWARD FORWARDS
"The exhibit is about restorative energy and healing through art.
At the center of the exhibit is a sculpture consisting of pieces of painted black wood.
They are pieces of life, fractures of energy and space.
Connected to the center sculpture are four groupings of free standing and connected paintings.
Each grouping has a grouping of four paintings.
Each group has a painting of a single house at night, a backwards abstract painting created backwards from the way I previously created wood paintings made from scraps of found wood, a painting of a figure that has just crossed over a bridge, and then a dyptic painting of a sun with a painting of the ocean underneath.
All four groupings are versions of the same four paintings.
They are stories of four life paths, Lenses of four ways of living.
Similar but unique is what we see.
All the wood was found.
The paintings were created over the last 1.5 years.
I will be at the opening if you have any questions about it."
Chris Johanson