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Press Releases from Johansson Projects (75 total)

Light Echoes | Aili Schmetlz

Radiating energy fields of psychedelic embroidery in Light Echoes, a solo exhibition by Aili Schmeltz Johansson Projects presents Light Echoes, a solo exhibition by Southern California based painter and sculptor Aili Schmeltz. Light Echoes presents the artist's first solo exhibition with the gallery and highlights a combination of mixed media textile paintings and ceramic modular sculptures. The unique mixed media wall works begin as portraits of particular landscapes of significance

Craig Dorety | Continuum

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - August 2022 Oakland, CA - Continuum is a new body of sculptural light pieces by Oakland-born artist Craig Dorety. Continuum runs in the side gallery concurrently with Origin Stories: Alexi Antoniadis + Susie Taylor. An artist reception is on First Friday, September 2, 5-8pm. Craig Dorety explores our ever-shifting relationship to the properties of light, crafting time-based tracings of various imagery. Inspired by Johannes Itten's writing,

Alexi Antoniadis + Susie Taylor | Origin Stories

Alexi Antoniadis + Susie Taylor | Origin Stories August 27 - October 15, 2022 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - July 2022 Oakland, CA - Origin Stories is a graphically adventurous exhibition made up of sculptural and textile works by artists Alexi Antoniadis and Susie Taylor. The exhibition as a whole reflects the artists' explorations of modernism, memory, and our surrounding environment through the optics of line, pattern, color and abstraction. Susie Taylor's textile panels-handcrafted

Community Garden, an annual summer show at Johansson Projects

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - May 2022 Oakland, CA - Jubilant storytelling and vibrant, stylized figuration articulate cultural and emotional experiences that embrace absurdity, joy, and contradictions in Community Garden, an annual summer show at Johansson Projects. This year features work by Maria Calandra, Andrew Catanese, Madeline Donahue, Howard Fonda, Cathy Lu, Humbert Ramirez and Sheena Rose. The panorama of styles and subject matter portray components of our cultural landscape, exploring

Two new exhibitions @ Johansson Projects

Sophie Treppendahl: Homebody April 30 - June 18, 2022 Nimah Gobir: SPOOLS April 30 - June 18, 2022 Opening Reception: Friday May 6, 5-8pm Johansson Projects announces two concurrent solo exhibitions with New Orleans-based artist Sophie Treppendahl and Oakland-based artist Nimah Gobir. The exhibitions open April 30 and will run through June 18, 2022, with an opening reception on Friday, May 6 from 5 to 8PM. The body of work in Sophie Treppendahl's Homebody was

Receiver | Aili Schmeltz + Katy Stone

Aili Schmeltz and Katy Stone: Receiver March 4 - April 23, 2022 Opening Reception: Friday March 4, 5-8pm FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - (Oakland, CA February 2022) - Johansson Projects proudly announces Receiver, a two-person exhibition featuring works by Aili Schmeltz and Katy Stone. The exhibition presents hybrid pieces combining sculptural, painting, and textile processes that find their inspiration from the natural world. The works of Aili Schmeltz and Katy Stone move between individual and

High Plains | Rachelle Bussières, Blaise Rosenthal, Andy Vogt

Johansson Projects presents High Plains, a three-person exhibition featuring the work of Rachelle Bussières, Blaise Rosenthal and Andy Vogt. Ranging in mediums from exposures on gelatin silver photo paper, to reclaimed wood lath constructions, and layered painting and drawing on canvas, these three artists use unique vocabularies to compose reflections of individual experience. Their practices share in the use of time and transmutation, each performing acts of alchemy in the

Thinking, Staring & Smoking | Robert Pokorny solo exhibition

Johansson Projects presents Thinking, Staring, & Smoking, Robert Pokorny’s new show opening July 31, 2021. A response...by Garrett M. Brown “What a long strange trip it’s been...” might be the Grateful Dead refrain you hear as you view Robert Pokorny’s stunning collection of paintings (acrylic on linen), drawings (charcoal and crayons) and a portfolio of unframed drawings. Rather than sitting in a bar, The Grateful Dead would be jamming to us, along

Miguel Arzabe // Cóndor de Cuatro Cabezas (Four-Headed Condor)

Johansson Projects is pleased to announce a forthcoming solo exhibition of recent works by Oakland-based artist Miguel Arzabe entitled Cóndor de Cuatro Cabezas (Four-Headed Condor), which will be on view to the public [by appointment] from May 8 through July 24. The exhibition’s title is inspired by the ancestral mythology of the indigenous Sacaca people Bolivia, who held a pantheistic conception of the world that featured the transposition and recombination

Community Garden

At a time when it feels like the light is finally breaking through the darkness, Community Garden — a group exhibition of seven artists — cultivates an abundance of connections. Using a variety of methods, the artists achieve a naturalism that aesthetically binds their work together into a single gesture, allowing us glimpses and sensations of the open spaces where we once walked freely, and will soon return. Community Garden features:

The Remnants

Amidst the upheaval of 2020, The Remnants featuring Megan Reed and Micah Wood explores what we leave behind and the agency in making as a way to move forward in the form of bold, colorful sculptures and paintings. Junkspace’s iconography is 13 percent Roman, 8 percent Bauhaus and 7 percent Disney (neck and neck), 3 percent Art Nouveau, followed closely by Mayan….Like a substance that could have condensed in any other

Within the Distance

Within the Distance offers viewers an opportunity to wander among a selection of new works by eight artists on view at Johansson Projects West, our virtual venue that traverses interior and exterior space spanning across garden spaces and our Jay Nelson designed treehouse. The paintings, drawings, and sculptures in this exhibition range in their motifs, from landscape to portraiture, and off into pure abstraction. However, they share among them an

A Terrain of Memory: Monuments from the California Landscape

Ido Yoshimto and Blaise Rosenthal create monolithic tributes to the California landscape at Johansson Projects The wilderness of Northern California is difficult to describe with words. Rich and diverse, it has a timeless quality that comes up from the ground and radiates over the landscape. Everything is colored and shaped by what has come before and what is still to come. A Terrain of Memory: Monuments from the California Landscape

Pansy Twist: An Incomplete Survey/Mixtape of American Riot Boi Art

Pansy Twist: An Incomplete Survey/Mixtape of American Riot Boi Art is a decidedly un-essential collective convo instigated by Seth Bogart, Jeffrey Cheung, and Brontez Purnell; all three art makers representing both successive and simultaneous waves of Post-Punk, Post Riot Grrrl, Post-Queercore, Post-Pop, and Post Post Post Post Post Post Post Modern Art movements. All starting as musicians in the fertile and majestic Bay Area queer scene – this art show positions

JAY NELSON | MAKING LANDS | JUNE 7 - JULY 20

In Jay Nelson’s prodigious body of built work there is always the dare for the viewer to see from a new perspective. To inhabit what he calls new ‘structures for seeing’. A Honda Civic, as a perspective. A tree, as a perspective. A backyard. The dare in Making Lands is to inhabit Nelson’s quiet nights after putting his children to sleep. And to take up that part calm, part strung

Summer Selections

Johansson Projects presents Summer Selections featuring works by our gallery artists. Johansson Projects is a contemporary art gallery that functions as curatorial laboratory, creating exhibitions that pair established and internationally-recognized artists with up-and-coming locals. With no show confined purely to gallery walls it prompts viewers to actively engage with artists who explore the mysteries embedded in modernity often using unorthodox materials and methods. Johansson Projects is a locus for curators, collectors,

ANNA FIDLER + CATHY LU | HER KIND | 5-8PM FRI FEB 1

Cathy Lu and Anna Fidler shape new myths surrounding characters of the past. With bright colors, topographic energy portraits sculpted from layers of paper, and misshapen ceramic imitations, their works declare a distinctly feminine revolution. Inspired by the ancient Chinese myth of the Immortal Peach Garden, where peaches represent longevity and prosperity, and combining that with the sexualized symbols that they are in American pop culture, Lu transforms these peaches

Loop Melody

Opening: Friday December 7 2018 | 5pm - 8pm Here’s one storyline. Here’s another. Here’s an endless number of storylines hovering on the groundless surface. Kaye’s granular drawings are seasonal, even hourly, depictions of light and intimacy. They blanch in the yellow California summer. They fold in, purple and blue, at twilight. The borders disappear as her shapes meander across one another, building conversational layer upon layer. While this close-ness is front

Loop Melody | Alexander Kori Girard and Rachel Kaye | 5-8PM FRI NOV 2

Johansson Projects presents Loop Melody featuring the works of Alexander Kori Girard and Rachel Kaye. Here's one storyline. Here's another. Here's an endless number of storylines hovering on the groundless surface. Kaye's granular drawings are seasonal, even hourly, depictions of light and intimacy. They blanch in the yellow California summer. They fold in, purple and blue, at twilight. The borders disappear as her shapes meander across one another, building conversational

Concrete Utopia

Johansson Projects presents Concrete Utopia where fragments of urban life and daydreams unite the works of Rachelle Bussières and Courtney Sennish. The works lure you in through their use of color and material; comparing the softness of a sky palette to the texture of concrete. Both artists, sculpting their mediums, record different processes of perceiving, experiencing and relating to the physical world. For Bussières, the lumen print process allows her to

Loop Melody | Rachel Kaye and Alexander Kori Girard

With foreground and background largely erased, each artist leaves it to the viewer to choose the topsy-turvy direction. Here's one storyline. Here's another. Here's an endless number of storylines vibrating on the surface. Kaye's granular drawings are seasonal, even hourly, depictions of light and intimacy. They blanch in the yellow California summer. They fold in, purple and blue, at twilight. The borders disappear as her shapes meander across one another,

Concrete Utopia | Rachelle Bussières and Courtney Sennish

Fragments of urban life and daydreams unite the works of Rachelle Bussieres and Courtney Sennish in Concrete Utopia on view at Johansson Projects. The works lure you in through their use of color and material; comparing the softness of a sky palette to the texture of concrete. Both artists, sculpting their mediums, record different processes of perceiving, experiencing and relating to the physical world. For Rachelle, the lumen print process

Matthew F Fisher | Into the Blue

Matthew F Fisher's paintings have been exhibited extensively in California, New York, London, and Atlanta, He is a recipient of residencies and awards from the Pollock Krasner Foundation, Yaddo, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Fisher received his MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University. Juxtapoz February 2018 Sasha Bogojev “..Both his ink drawings and acrylic paintings have the aesthetics of vintage futuristic air-brush art, notable through

Matthew Fisher | Into The Blue

Johansson Projects presents Into the Blue, a solo show by Matthew F Fisher. Part moony Florida evenings, part castaway, part neo-pastel, part noir, part performative water works, part astro-physic - all of Fisher's paintings approach the perfect through the imperfect. There's a level of completeness, of polish, of finish to each painting, while still basking in the hand drawn. The quivering stillness of a strait line amplifies the unseen human

MICHELLE BLADE | PARTNERLOOK

Johansson Projects presents: “Partnerlook”, an exhibition of new paintings and ceramic sculptures by artist Michelle Blade. “Partnerlook” is a term that stems from the German colloquial for wearing matching clothes, and is an underlying theme throughout this intimate body of work. The pieces look toward one another, they echo visual similarities, and they mimic investigations of the natural world and the role the human figure takes within it. The works are small

CLAIRE COLETTE | MONUMENT ETERNAL

Johansson Projects presents, Monument Eternal, featuring Claire Colette’s ethereal brand of geometric abstraction inviting deep, meditative viewing. Borrowing its title from Alice Coltrane’s first book—which tells of her spiritual initiation, revelations, and austerities—Monument Eternal is a formal exploration of the human desire for transcendence. Interested in contemporary and esoteric creation myths and sacred architectures, Colette’s emotive linear paintings contemplate modern relationships with past civilizations and our own place in the

BLAISE ROSENTHAL | BETWEEN THE LINES | 5-8PM FRI AUG 4

Johansson Projects presents Between the Lines, a solo show with artist Blaise Rosenthal. This is the first exhibition of his “Overpaintings”, a group of small abstract works produced over a five-year period beginning in 2012.The exhibition’s title, Between the Lines, refers to the position that these works occupy within the artist’s broader practice. More familiar from Rosenthal are his multi-panel charcoal and acrylic on canvas paintings, as featured in Mirage—the

Megan Reed + Jennie Ottinger | Rabble-Rousers | May 27

In Rabble-Rousers, Megan Reed’s marching sculptures, watched by the disconcertingly unwholesome crowds in Jennie Ottinger’s paintings, together activate the gallery space into a kind of parade ground for resistance, rebellion, and/or collective merry-making. Through loud, chromatic palettes and vivid textures, both Reed and Ottinger create work that is tactile, vocal and slyly humorous. The viewer is invariably drawn into the rabble-rousing, tangled up into its web of discourse; urged to join

Matt Kleberg + Woody De Othello | Knock-Kneed and Bow-Legged | March 25

In their upcoming show at Johansson Projects, Knock-Kneed and Bow-Legged, Matt Kleberg’s cascading voids and Woody Othello’s anthropomorphized ceramics come together to construct curious alternate realities within unsettling social climates. Matt Kleberg’s texturally striped paintings create an intriguing illusion of internal space, inviting the viewer to ‘step in’ to an alternate reality just off the edge of the frame. Invoking the depth of a stage drop, his color-blocked canvasses curtain out

SOFIE RAMOS | FRI FEB 3

In Sofie Ramos’ January residency at Johansson Projects, vivid playgrounds, fantastical constructions, and vibrantly textural wonderlands will take over the gallery space for her upcoming installation exhibition. Spilling beyond the confines of the canvas, Ramos stretches fabrics, string, sharp lines of color, and absurd forms in her physical interactions with space. Ramos insists on emphasizing process over outcome, resulting in installations where imagination runs free and throws itself into physical

CODY HOYT + ALEXANDER KORI GIRARD | OCTOBER 22

In Cody Hoyt and Alexander Kori Girard’s upcoming show at Johansson Projects, patterned forms and organic geometries come together in an unique exploration of functional permanence and mystic communication. Cody Hoyt’s ceramics are rigorously drawn, curiously angular, and intricately patterned, creating brutalist organic “vessels” that question the need for function over form. The forms are constructed from patterned slabs, which are themselves assembled from smaller individual pieces; a highly individualized framework

MICAH WOOD | HEALTHY TEARS | THU SEPT 1 5-8

In his first solo exhibition at Johansson Projects, Micah Wood explores the semiotics of coherent symbols through painting and sculpture by presenting a critical commentary on western society’s strange relationship to food marketing and to food itself. “Healthy Tears” uses the physicality and spatial weight of sculpture techniques as well as the expressive and organic substance within painting to create a work that questions perception and truth in relation to

Blaise Rosenthal | Mirage | April 1

Mirage Featuring: Blaise Rosenthal Show Runs March 26 - May 21, 2016 Reception: Friday, April 1, 5-8pm In first solo exhibition Blaise Rosenthal's acrylic and charcoal works reveal subtle forms with layers of intricate construction. A straight crisp line, a clear division of light and dark, cuts across a rich surface formed by two asymmetrically scaled canvases. This singularity, however, does not exist. It is a greater sum of parts. Washes of acrylic media

Samantha Bittman | Material Data

Material Data Featuring: Samantha Bittman Show Runs May 1 - July 4, 2015 Reception Friday May 1, 5 - 8 PM In Material Data, Samantha Bittman presents a new body of work including a series of paintings on handwoven textiles, custom digitally printed wallpaper, and a handmade tile floor sculpture. In Bittman’s visual world, the structuring and processing of individual parts generate a mutually dependent relationship between image and object, while simultaneously conjuring formal

MIAMI | UNTITLED Art Fair | Johansson Projects Booth D06 | Dec 1-7

Johansson Projects presents works by Craig Dorety featuring a collaboration with Jim Campbell Craig Dorety’s meditative, time-based light sculptures use vibrant, animated gradients of light to extract movement from media stills, bringing the viewer face-to-face with the limitations of perception. Johansson Projects' unveils new work as well as a collaborative installation with the iconic LED artist Jim Campbell. This exciting cross-pollination of new media arts fuses Dorety’s emphasis on color and

JENNIFER + KEVIN MCCOY | ALL EXIT

ALL EXIT FEATURING JENNIFER + KEVIN MCCOY Show Runs Through January 3, 2015 Extended hours Friday December 5th, open until 8 pm. In their second exhibition with Johansson Projects, entitled All Exit, Jennifer and Kevin McCoy present new works that spin out from the landscape of the Californian west, from farmland to corporate campus. California, with its nexus of computer, entertainment, and military industrial centers is seen as the conclusion, both geographically and ideologically,

Jennifer + Kevin McCoy | All Exit

In their second exhibition with Johansson Projects, entitled All Exit, Jennifer and Kevin McCoy present new works that spin out from the landscape of the Californian west, from farmland to corporate campus. California, with its nexus of computer, entertainment, and military industrial centers is seen as the conclusion, both geographically and ideologically, of the frontier fantasy of the American dream. The title, All Exit, is taken from internet rhetoric in which

Fractured Fauna

Fractured Fauna New works by Misako Inaoka August 23 – October 18 Artist reception September 5, 5-8pm Johansson Projects presents Fractured Fauna, a new series by Misako Inaoka, in which hybrid creatures opt to be upholstered instead of taxidermied. Inaoka's newest sculptures depict a herd of ever-ambiguous creatures locked in an eternal state of transformation. Two headed dogs and headless deer are two animals in the clan, each adorned with decorative skins resembling an

Alicia McCarthy + Jenny Sharaf

Alicia McCarthy + Jenny Sharaf Show Runs June 21 - August 16 Reception Saturday June 21, 3-5 pm Johansson Projects presents new works by Alicia McCarthy and Jenny Sharaf in which repetition reigns and pretty things come rough around the edges. At radically different paces, Alicia McCarthy and Jenny Sharaf render DIY visions of California dreaming. Alicia McCarthy's hypnotic paintings are a quiet F-U to the ever-quickening pace of the ever savvy, Photoshopped world

Craig Dorety | Division | Johansson Projects

Division Craig Dorety featuring a collaboration with Jim Campbell Show Runs April 19 - June 14, 2014 Reception: Friday, May 2, 5-8pm In a time when technology so often distracts and displaces, Craig Dorety's work uses pixels, LEDs, digital images and filters to stimulate focused reverie. In Division, his new exhibition at Johansson Projects, Dorety's meditative sculptures use vibrant, animated gradients of light to extract movement from the static, bringing the viewer face-to-face with

Temporal Void featuring Mayumi Hamanka + Brooks Salzwedel

Johansson Projects presents Temporal Void, a two person show featuring new works by Mayumi Hamanaka and Brooks Salzwedel, in which the vulnerability of our environments, histories and memories is brought to the forefront. By slightly distorting recognizable images from twentieth century wars and layering hand cut prints and paper, Mayumi Hamanaka investigates perceptions of history and the contexts in which histories are written. In Hamanaka’s latest project, Invisible Lands, her process

Temporal Void | Mayumi Hamanaka + Brooks Salzwedel | November 21 – January 16, …

Johansson Projects presents Temporal Void, a two person show featuring new works by Mayumi Hamanaka and Brooks Salzwedel, in which the vulnerability of our environments, histories and memories is brought to the forefront. By slightly distorting recognizable images from twentieth century wars and layering hand cut prints and paper, Mayumi Hamanaka investigates perceptions of history and the contexts in which histories are written. In Hamanaka’s latest project, Invisible Lands,

Formalities featuring Dan Grayber + Steuart Pittman

Johansson Projects presents Formalities, a two-person exhibition featuring works by Dan Grayber and Steuart Pittman, in which familiar structures and seemingly rigorous forms are born from aesthetic impulse and a higher ambition towards geometric harmony. If machines are inventions that ease the daily burdens of human existence, Dan Grayber's work is the very antithesis of the statement. Grayber creates intricate mechanical objects that are designed solely to sustain themselves, rather

Michelle Blade and Hillary Wiedemann

Johansson Projects is pleased to present a "A Willing Transfer of Belief", a two person exhibition featuring works of Michelle Blade and Hillary Wiedemann. The luminous surfaces of Blade's work border on abstraction and simultaneously depict transcendent spaces and colorful, totem-like characters. For this exhibition Blade brings together painting and sculpture, inserting moments of levity within ideologies of Existentialism. A painting of a ghost activated by an oscillating fan, exhibited

Johansson Projects presents Pixilated Drift featuring David O'Brien, Andrew Bens …

Johansson Projects presents Pixilated Drift, in which computer glitches and obsolete technologies float, bump and bleed into one another like continents in motion. Andrew Benson’s entrancing videos depict liquid pixels, oozing like primal matter between sharp fractals and blinding colors. These epileptic glitches threaten to forever climax, causing a visual overload that forces you submit your brain to pure bliss. David O’Brien’s photographs explore human connectedness by weaving together colorful helices

Johansson Projects presents Opal Dust featuring Casey Watson

Opal Dust features Casey Watson depicting the sharp-edged task of portraying a soft exterior. Watson’s meticulous colored pencil and graphite drawings invite the viewer to unearth her treasures and inspect their intricacies. Up close, petals, leaves and stems arrange themselves into romantic kaleidoscopic wreaths. These fibrous orbs careen and breed, evoking ideas of natural symmetry, squished floral formations, and cycles of life and death. From a distance, the same drawings

Johansson Projects presents Rachel Kaye

Johansson Projects presents SHEBAM! POW! BLOP! WIZZ! featuring work by Rachel Kaye. Kaye's textile playgrounds channel the eternally dramatic love affair between art and fashion. Ripped from fashion magazines today's top trends melt into mazes of color and pattern, pure visual stimulation devoid of opinion or moral stance. As if conducting an operation, Kaye deconstructs the visual fabric of her physical fabrics, letting the symbiosis of art and fashion exist

Johansson Projects presents Vampires & Wolf Men featuring Anna Fidler

Age-old folklore renders a vampire's reflection invisible. Anna Fidler suggests that when a post-internet vampire faces the mirror, its simulacrum glitches like a psychedelic computer virus. The exhibition "Vampires and Wolf Men" combines Fidler's traditional taste for exploring supernatural energies with a vampire's taste for blood. She revamps portraits of suspicious looking individuals from the 19th and early 20th centuries, giving them the electric glow of one who has stolen

Johansson Projects presents What To Do With Your Orphan: A Manual featuring Jenn …

On Johansson Projects 5th Anniversary we present Jennie Ottinger's "What to Do with Your Orphan: A Manual", in which orphans partake in orphan-like activities. These include sleeping, playing dodgeball, and eating breakfast. But don't be fooled into thinking an orphan's life is just like yours or mine. Ottinger nonchalantly renders a mouth too far unhinged or a patch of flesh a bit too pink, making her gouache ghosts look almost

Johansson Projects presents Hymns to the Moon featuring Tadashi Moriyam + Robert …

Johansson Projects presents Hymns to the Moon, where sublime omens haunt everyday spaces, both of the landscape and of the imagination. Robert Minervini and Tadashi Moriyama depict visions of a timeless future. Moriyama's works swarm with details in their depiction of the last judgment for the digital age. Weeds, wires, blood and guts coil around classical sculpture, original sin and corporate headquarters. At the crux of his painted paranoia, viewers

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