May 16 - June 20, 2026

gallery neptune & brown, Washington, DC

Influenced by art historical movements ranging from the Renaissance to Surrealism, Johnson creates exaggerated feminine archetypes using imagery from 1960s-1970s print media and popular culture. Through this lens, she explores the female body as both an object and manufactured ideal. Johnson combines painting, printmaking, and photography on a small and large scale to create nuanced mixed-media pieces that reflect the extreme ideals of femininity and the cultural control of the time.

Hall of Portraits from The History of Machines

September 5–October 12, 2025

Opening Reception and Artist Talk: Friday, September 5, 6–7:30pm

“Mining the archive is like building a time machine; I look at the material culture of the past as a way of understanding what has come into being in our contemporary times.” (Johnson)

Symmetrical Bodies

April 26 - June 14, 2025

gallery neptune & brown

1530 14th Street, NW

Washington, DC. 20005

Johnson observes the world through the lens of a cultural historian. In her exhibition Symmetrical Bodies, Johnson uses the unattainable perfection and beauty of bodily symmetry to comment on the social representation of women, glamor, and domesticity. Through the distortions of these images, Johnson questions and re-imagines these “perfect bodies”, confronting societal notions of beauty that influence our understanding of female identity.