PROFILE: Anna Johnson in the Studio
Walking into Anna Johnson’s studio is like passing through a portal into another world: a flight of rickety wooden stairs leads to the top floor of a turn-of-last-century building where Johnson serves tea in ornate vintage china cups, a lapdog appears to have emerged straight from a late Rembrandt oil painting and the artist herself […]
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Tagged abstraction, Anna Johnson, AP70, Artist Profile 70, Color Field, Colour Field, colourist, Defiance Gallery, NERAM, New England Regional Art Museum, Susie Burge
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Paved Paradise: The Paradox of Art Vandalism
In 1974, Tony Shafrazi took a spray can and wrote “KILL ALL LIES” directly onto Picasso’s Guernica, 1937, hanging at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. He claimed his rationale was an anti-war statement, so ergo, his method was to deface an anti-war painting. And not just any artwork, but the anti-war painting […]
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Anna Johnson
Johnson’s engagement with her influences – abstract expressionism, post-impressionism, early modernism, Monet, Clyfford Still – is ambivalent, and yet unburdened with the irony that characterises a lot of work on history and the archive produced today. In an interview for Intention with Rachael Parsons, Johnson described the experience of an artist (especially, but not only a woman […]
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Tagged AK Bellinger Gallery, Anna Johnson, painting
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A Bird in the Hand
How quaint these issues seem now, in a tentative post-Covid landscape. Because when the world locked down, the dubious, kitsch, compromised, and highly efficient marketing machine of a social media art world became a matter of necessity rather than choice. Museums could not block-bust. Artists could not show. Dealers could not open stock rooms. Magazines […]
Her Light Materials: Penelope Seidler
Penelope Seidler has a powerful public presence. Hers is what millennials would define as a “big life.” Involved and curious, she makes her way from undergrad openings in Sydney to the bold face events in Europe and the Museum of Modern Art in New York where she has been a member of the International Council […]
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Tagged Anna Johnson, Architecture, Harry Seidler, Penelope Seidler, Textiles
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