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The Inventories |
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VIEW QuickTime video (under Video, Catalogs & Reviews)
There is something cinematic in recent works like The Inventories, a kind of warped, sequential space inspired by the panorama that was popular in the late nineteenth century. Original artist books are gouache & colored pencil in accordion format. Many works from The Inventories are also available in limited editions at full scale, and as miniature books in editions of 200.
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Miniature books from The Inventories |
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Distributed by Printed Matter, Inc
www.printedmatter.org
Limited edition of 200
$10 each
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Quaking Aspen, Volume 1 |
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VIEW QuickTime movies for Volume 1 and 2 [under "Video, Catalogs and Reviews']
The Quaking Aspen project creates a flattened contemporary wunderkammer, and takes on Fluxus type programmes and cabinets of curiosities, scrap-booking, idiosyncratic collecting practices and library archiving. The contents are culled from the artist's collection of books, contemporary and early 20th century magazines, and other ephemera (with some unique additions).
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Lost Encyclopedia Drawings |
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These 'lost' drawings serve as early manifestations of the Johnson's long-standing interest and musings on the pictorial history of natural history. In this series of ink drawings completed in 1989 the artist re-interprets images culled from a set of World Book Encyclopedias (1953) and books from the Time-Life Nature Series (1960's).
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Cabinet: Raw & Cooked (2009) Double-click on images for full screen view |
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Like a fantastic menagerie or bestiary, when seen together the works create a collection drawer from a peculiar cabinet of curiosities, a special collection of natural and artificial things in which the traditionally separate worlds of the animate and inanimate are now conflated, compressed and fashioned into one new whole.
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Episodes in a Fantastic Landscape (2006-08) |
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All works are archival inkjet prints with hand painting in gouache on watercolor paper, 16" x 48"
2006-08
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Panoramas (2007-08) |
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Large-scale digital inkjet prints with hand painting in gouache, watercolor, acrylic and ink.
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Poem Objects (2006) |
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Gouache paintings on handmade paper
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Impossible Objects |
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