Press Releases from Johansson Projects (75 total)
Johansson Projects presents Follies of the Digital Arcade featuring Christina Co …
Johansson Projects is pleased to present Follies of the Digital Arcade, Christina Corfield's recently uncovered archives of the mysterious effects of electricity on the visual imagination of the late nineteenth century and it’s impact on today’s digital age. Western society of the late nineteenth century moved from a mechanical to an electrical age, and now we too are living through huge shifts in technologies and communications. Follies of the Digital…
Johansson Projects presents New Document
There is a new rectangular viewbox into understanding what it means to be human. Johansson Projects presents New Document, where our expanding visual literacy provides a schematic history of the materials and methods employed by artists Andrew Chapman, Matthew Draving, Hunter Longe and Hugh Zeigler. Temporal interpretations are generated and informed by our relationship to a computerized environment. Age-old descriptive terms such as layering, cropping and rendering take on new…
Johansson Projects presents Circlesaints featuring Yvette Molina + Mike Meyers
In his drawings Leonardo Da Vinci explored the cosmography of the microcosm, showing how the workings of the human body can be traced in the workings of the universe. Johansson Projects' upcoming exhibition, Circlesaints by Yvette Molina and Michael Meyers, takes a similar line of inquiry. In their respective work, explorations of plant life and architecture investigate the whole from its parts. Yvette Molina employs a microscope's view of plants…
Johansson Projects presents BISCHOFF SOREN BLACK
Johansson Projects presents a three-person show in which landscape, seascape and dreamscape melt into a new sub-human habitat. Through the use of photography and video with varying degrees of analog and digital effects, Brice Bischoff, Tabitha Soren and Ellen Black manipulate environments, creating uncanny exaggerations and projections of what could exist. Bischoff's large format ‘Bronson Caves’ prints use long exposure to create an equation in which performance and photography…
Johansson Projects presents Katy Stone + Allison Gildersleeve
Johansson Projects presents new work by Allison Gildersleeve and Katy Stone in Bramblur an exhibition that examines the material of nature and the nature of materials. Known internationally for her large scale public projects, Katy Stone's constructions in metal and Duralar act as both microscope and kaleidoscope, zooming in on the radical strangeness of plants’ physiques while enhancing the effect with hyperactive colors. Occupying the space between the organic and…
Johansson Projects presents Homer Flynn
Johansson Projects presents an exhibition of LP cover production art, promotional photos, drawings, scratch-board illustrations, and digital imagery from the archives of Homer Flynn. As principal designer for the internationally acclaimed music, video and performance group, The Residents, Flynn will be exhibiting both professional and personal work. This is the artist's first solo exhibition at the gallery.
Through his work, Homer Flynn has created a unique folklore composed of morosely…
Johansson Projects presents Loss Revision featuring Eric Petitti
In Loss Revision, Eric Petitti presents a series of works excerpted from his project "The Dreadnaught Saga". The project is designed to emphasize the ways in which depictions of history can distort the past in order to influence the present. On close inspection, the details within the work offer different perspectives either embracing the larger story or contradicting the truth that they claim to espouse. This exhibit presents the competing…
Johansson Projects presents Control Room featuring Josh Short
Johansson Projects presents an installation by Josh Short, where crisis is business as usual.
The exhibition begins with a deceptive facade of crudely framed screen prints. Upon further investigation, viewers can find a hidden door to the surveillance control room; a cross between a post-apocalyptic survivalist bunker and a lazy police office. As the new commanders of this strange outpost, they are equipped with food, tools, and recreational activities -…
Johansson Projects presents Humming Summit featuring Alex Case + Dan Grayber
Dan Grayber isolates machinery from its usual role of fulfilling human needs through placing it in an eternal mode of self-perpetuation. His safety-orange powder coated objects endlessly assure their survival through completing the simple and essential task of holding oneself up. These sculptures, which create problems as they solve them, exude a sovereign elegance, the dignity of not having to justify themselves to an outside source. Alex Case uses asphalt…
Johansson Projects presents Unearth
In the back gallery, Johansson Projects presents Unearth, a group show that offers emerging artists the opportunity to give back and support local collectors. The show is comprised of five artists making their a-terrestrial work available for less than a grand. Toying with the natural, these artists take a leap of faith and define the unknown. Ellen Black's media players are windows to a fractured utopia. Her cobbled together urban…
Johansson Projects presents Due By featuring Jennie Ottinger
In Due By, Jennie Ottinger crafts a canonical library stripped down to the barely-there essentials. There is a haunting affect to Ottinger's collection of newfangled classics; perhaps it is the quiet tick tock of our own mortality, urging us to read the greats before it is too late. To help us with our timely mission, the books' insides are cut out and replaced with far more entertaining summaries. Her humorous…
Johansson Projects presents Guided Growth featuring Misako Inaoka
In Guided Growth, Misako Inaoka revamps Johansson Projects into a zoological garden run wild, existing in a strange parallel world that we are perhaps too familiar with. Inaoka's work echoes the alchemy of food processing by cross-breeding high art and toys, flirting with the familiarity of kitsch. Ceramic fawns with surveillance cameras for heads and a moose with ears-turned-bicycle-handlebars frolic in a wonderland impossibly sweet with an unsettling aftertaste. Inaoka's…
Johansson Projects presents Solo Exhibiton by Erik Parra
In his first solo exhibition at the gallery, Erik Parra’s confettied newspaper clippings trap vintage advertisements in an impossible temporality: both as a newspaper documentation of the past and a proactive peek into future shapings of collective hopes and dreams. The tangled layers of artificiality eminent in both the medium and the message- between black and white and RGB, history and desire, question the relevance of a search for American…
Johansson Projects presents Some Math featuring Jana Flynn + Jill Gallenstein
In the front gallery Johansson Projects presents a two person exhibition entitled Some Math. Jana Flynn creates 3-dimensional drawings out of string, colorful networks stuck on an infinite loop of interconnectivity. Her graphs-gone-wild define the spaces they inhabit as their axis expose the artfulness of the shortest distance between two points. Jill Gallenstein invites viewers to look in into her microscapes buzzing with happy atoms engaged in serious play. Her…
The Velveteen Order featuring Keer Tanchak + Christina Corfield
Johansson Projects presents The Velveteen Order, where powder and paint mask flesh in favor of fiction, serving up Rococo thrills yummier than brioche.
Christina Corfield crafts moving dioramas which flaunt the brush of a gaze and the stroke of a sword. Her videos hyperbolize the Old Regime's pretend-sion, ignoring distinctions between historical documentation and fairy tale musings. Redundancy and stripped down actions append significance to the subtlest minutiae.…
Johansson Projects presents Disintegrations
Disintegrations
Featuring works by: Sébastien Lapointe + Andrew Benson
October 2nd – November 13th, 2009
Artist Reception Friday, October 2nd 5 - 8PM
Technology sheds the discourse of forward progress in favor of exotic decay and hypnotic liquefaction. In this technological rebellion, synesthesia takes hold as musical albums become sculptural objects and silent films are sound waves given form.Sébastien Lapointe, artist and DJ from Montréal, remixes calcified LPs into totemic sculptures, photographing textured album…
Ibid. featuring Jennie Ottinger
Johansson Projects presents a solo exploration by Jennie Ottinger, a delicate and haunting display of the familiar suspects stripped of their familiarity. From her ballerina lineups to her team of surgeons, Ottinger's characters contain all the parts in place, yet a lurking trace of disorientation lingers in the way of recognition or comfort. The subjects are more skeletons of flesh than human beings. A crafted impossibility echoes throughout Ottinger's presentation…
Johansson Projects presents Show Me
In the upcoming exhibition Show Me, Jennifer and Kevin McCoy continue their exploration and construction of physical and conceptual models using found objects, miniature model sets and video media. The Second Gallery will be transformed into an immersive environment investigating the arbitrary nature of systems of categorization and the possibilities that lie within obsolete technologies to examine reality. New works by the collaborative duo include the multimedia project…
The Echo Fields: Val Britton + Michael Meyers| Jennifer + Kevin McCoy
In the main gallery a fantastical universe of abstract mark-making, route-lines and surreal sculptures allude to the fluid territory between the knowable and the unknown. Val Britton melds a cartographer’s precision with a dreamer’s sense of abandon to create map-like constructions that chart her journeys through the blurry terrain of memory and imagination. Layers of paint, ink and cut-outs are at once explosive and serene, echoing the paths she…
Johansson Projects presents Flaming Furbelows
Flaming Furbelows is an art exhibition that explores uneasy encounters between attraction and repulsion, tenderness and terror. From inside fleshy mounds of fur and yarn, Marina Vendrell Renaut's soft sculptures emit eerie music-box squeals, not unlike a wind-up-doll soundtrack to a horror film. Using minks from cast-off fur coats spliced together with stuffed animals and yarn balls, Vendrell's plush and bulbous monstrosities offer up wooly orifices and suggestive pleasures that…
Art Murmur Events at Johansson Projects
February's Art Murmur will feature the gritty and uplifting music from the Conspiracy of Beards, as well as two shows at Johansson Projects that explore how private compulsions become public and shared through transcendent works of art.
The Conspiracy of Beards are a San Francisco-based, 30 member male choir performing exclusively the songs of Leonard Cohen acapella. For their cult following and newcomers alike they will be singing at their first…
Collective Compulsions: the winter group show
Two shows exploring how compulsion can be transformed from a private coping mechanism to deal with a maddeningly repetitive world, into transcendent works of art to be shared.
Artist Reception Saturday, January 17th, 4-7pm; Show Runs January 8th through February 21st, 2009
Johansson Projects presents 2 art exhibitions. Collective Compulsions: the winter group show and a solo exploration by Zach Houston in the back gallery.
When we are faced with intricate…
Johansson Projects presents Tickling Thicket
Tickling Thicket at Johansson Projects is a nature walk through a mysterious and delicate landscape, where organic beauty blossoms in the midst of slow decay.
Opening Thursday, October 30th, 6 - 9 PM
Exhibitions Dates- October 30th – December 13th, 2008
(Oakland, CA) August 2008- Johansson Projects presents Tickling Thicket, a two-person show that considers the ephemeral thrills and underlying decrepitude of the natural world. Katy Stone's constructions and installations meander and…
Johansson Projects presents Outpost, an art exhibit featuring David Hamill and J …
Two artists explore the tensions between chaos and order, the meat and the skin of architecture, in Outpost
Johansson Projects presents Outpost, an art exhibit that probes the imaginary and illusory properties of architecture. David Hamill’s fragmented constructions burst from their core, propagate from the ceiling, through the walls and across the central gallery, exploring how we manifest ourselves through architectural forms. With both drawings and installation, Hamill dissects architecture…
Vice Presidential candidate Matt Gonzalez exhibits art in Oakland, CA
Independent Party Vice Presidential candidate Matt Gonzalez exhibits art work in Oakland, CA art gallery.
\"Crossing the Delaware\"
May 15 – July 5, 2008
Opening Reception Thursday, May 15, 6 - 9pm
(Oakland, CA) May 12, 2008 - Johansson Projects presents \"Crossing the Delaware\" by artist and Vice Presidential candidate Matt Gonzalez. Matt produces collages from found objects creating faux personal narratives that evoke nostalgia and trigger subconscious embedded memories…
