SUE JOHNSON
Works on Paper & Books  
New Objects  
The Alternate Encyclopedia Project  
Projects with Museums  
Prints & Watercolors from The Alternate Encyclopedia  
Early Paintings & Drawings  
Biography  
Resume  
Bibliography  
Video, Catalogs & Reviews  
Statement  
Links  
Upcoming/Current Exhibitions  
Contact  
Login  

Books and Catalogues
  Anne C. Goodyear, "OPTIONS 2009," Washington Project for the Arts at Conner Contemporary Art, Washington, D.C.

N. Elizabeth Schlatter, "Eating Wonderland," Lora Robins Gallery of Art from Nature, University of Richmond Museums, Richmond, VA, 2008

John B. Ravenal, "Mid Atlantic Painting 2008," University of Mary Washington, Ridderhof Martin Gallery, 2008.

Jennifer Fossell O'Sullivan, "The Bold Art of Sue Johnson," Mulberry Tree Papers, St. Mary's College of Maryland, Summer 2007

Celia Rabinovitch, "Wondrous Imagination" for the exhibition, Cabinet of Wonders: Marvelous Transformations and Other Accidental Images, Swarthmore College, 2007

Linda Tesner, "Artists and Specimens: Documenting Contemporary Experience," Hoffman Gallery, Lewis & Clark College, 2006

Tricia Watts, "Bug-Eyed: Art, Culture and Insects," Turtle Bay Exploration Park, 2004

Peter Spooner, "The Alternate Encyclopedia," Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota Duluth, artist interview, curator's introduction, and poems by Camille Norton, 2004

Jennifer McGregor, "Insecta Magnifica," Glyndor Gallery, Wave Hill, (brochure), May 2002

Jeffrey Carr, "The Nature of Nature," Boyden Gallery, St. Mary's College of Maryland, 2002

Brian Byrn, "The Alternate Encyclopedia," The Midwest Museum of American Art, 2002

Jordana Pomeroy, "The Science of Nature and the Nature of Science," Fragments from The Alternate Encyclopedia, McLean Project for the Arts, McLean, VA, 2001

Andrea Pollan, "Hidden Worlds, Other Views," McLean Project for the Arts, Fragments from the Alternate Encyclopedia, 2001

Peter Spooner, "Botanica: Contemporary Art and the World of Plants," Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota Duluth, 1999

Linda Weintraub, "Along the Garden Path," Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE, 1998

Laura Katzman, "The Alternate Encyclopedia," Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, 1996 and the Boyden Gallery, St. Mary's College of Maryland, St. Mary's City, Maryland, 1997

Saul Ostrow, "Mssr. B's Curio Shop," Thread Waxing Space, New York, 1992

Terry R. Myers, "Triangle Artists' Workshop 1991 Exhibition," Bennington College, Usdan Gallery, Bennington, Vermont, 1992

Morgan T. Paine, "Animal Icons Too," Alverno College Art Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1985
 
  Andrea Pollan, "Hidden Worlds, Other Views"
catalog essay from Selections from The Alternate Encyclopedia at the McLean Project for the Arts (2001)
 
Articles and Reviews
  Jessica Dawson, "Sue Johnson, Bringing Fresh Ideas to the Table," The Washington Post, Feb 15, 2008  
  Roy Proctor, "Inedible edibles show," Richmond Times Dispatch, March 9, 2008

Victoria Donohoe, "Different Worlds, Dramatic Vision," Philadelphia Inquirer, Feb 11, 2007

Alex Ho, "Johnson Exhibit at List explores the surreal," Phoenix, Swarthmore College, Feb 1, 2007

Brian Libby, "Examining the evidence of the human experience," The Oregonian, Sept. 8, 2006

Stephanie Beechem, "Man. Woman. Squirrel.," Pioneer Log, Lewis & Clark College, Vol. 71, Number 1, Sept 15, 2006

Amy Bernstein, "Artists and Specimens at Lewis and Clark College," PortlandArt.net, October 12, 2006

Sarah Sargent, Art Papers, exhibition review of NeoNaturalism, July-August 2002

Julie York Coppens, "Unnatural Selection: Artist Sue Johnson teases, fascinates viewers with Alternate Encyclopedia," South Bend Tribune, August 4, 2002

Marcia Fulmer, "Wonderfully strange world of Sue Johnson," The Truth (Elkhart, IN), July 25, 2002

William Zimmer, "With Webs and Wings: In an Insect Frame of Mind," The New York Times, May 12, 2002 Art review, Insecta Magnifica at Wave Hill's Glyndor Gallery

Michael O'Sullivan, "Johnson's Hybrids: A Breed Apart," The Washington Post, February 23, 2001

Jurek G. Polanski, "Sue Johnson: Pages from The Alternate Encyclopedia," Artscope, November 14, 2000, exhibition review/online art journal

"A Glimpse at the Garden," The Muse: Plains Art Museum Newsletter, Fall 1999

Jan Pita Grover, "Power amid roots and leaves: Botanica: artists see the beautiful, sinister and sexy side of plants," Duluth News Tribune, August 22, 1999

Andrea Pollan, The Washington Review, Vol.XXIV, No. 1, 1998, June/July, Special ArtSites 98 Edition, Curio Cabinet of Hybrid Possibilities catalog essay for the exhibition

Nancy Ungar, "Salting the wounds of 20th century life," The Rockville Gazette, June 17, 1998

John Dorsey, The Baltimore Sun, Art Review, September 4, 1997

Mike Giuliano, The Baltimore City Paper, Art Review, September 10, 1997

Stuart Horodner, "The F Word," New Observations, Frankenstein issue, Issue #114, Spring 1997

John D. Johnston, "Put That in Your Funk and Wagnalls," January 22, The Enterprise, 1997, exhibition review

Jean Rosenblatt, "Domesticating the Wild," The Chronicle of Higher Education, November 15, 1996

Laura Katzman, Art Papers, review of The Alternate Encyclopedia, Vol. 20, Issue 1, Jan-Feb 1996

Mary McCoy, "Three at Drysdale," The Washington Post, exhibition review, July 30, 1994

Faye Hirsch, The Print Collector's Newsletter, "The Press" at ¨Horodner-Romley Gallery, New York, Vol. XXV, No 2, May-June 1994

Ellen Watkins, "Museums offer spectacular exhibition focusing on the flower as eternal moment," The Star Ledger, Bergen Museum of Science and Art, July 4, 1993

Holland Cotter, "Nature Fabrilis at Stiebel Modern," The New York Times, July 3, 1992

Karen Wilkin, Partisan Review, "At The Galleries," exhibition review of "Morphologic" at Art in General and "Beyond Nature" at Marymount
Manhattan College Gallery, Vol. LIX No. 3, Summer 1992

Julie Wyatt, "A fine, eclectic show at the Albany Institute of Art," The Knickerbocker News, Albany, New York 1985

Susan Taaffe, The New Art Examiner, exhibition review, Anthropology
Games at the Columbus Cultural Art Center, Columbus, Ohio, 1985

Marion Garmel, "Artist Sue Johnson measures civilization by the games we play," The Indianapolis News, 1985

Steven Mannheimer, "Work by Sue Johnson Featured in Two Exhibitions,"The Indianapolis Star, Indianapolis, IN 1985
 
  Jennifer Fossell O'Sullivan, The Bold Art of Sue Johnson (2007)  
Selected Website Listings
  Eating Wonderland, University of Richmond Museums (2008)  
  Chelsea Art Galleries, Alice Redux at Schroeder-Romero/Winkleman Gallery Project Space (2008)  
  Jordana Pomeroy, "The Science of Nature and the Nature of Science" catalog essay for Selections from The Alternate Encyclopedia at the McLean Project for the Arts