Brian Johnson, Featured Artist, May 2024
ART LISTINGS: MAY 2024 FEATURED ARTISTS: BRIAN JOHNSON, Mixed Media Paintings Exhibits Beginning: MAY 1, 2024 Exhibits Ending: MAY 29, 2024 2nd Saturday RECEPTION ATRIUM PARTY Saturday, MAY 11th, 3-5 PM Location: GALLERY AT MARINA SQUARE, 601 EMBARCADERO, SUITE 10, MORRO BAY, CA 93442 Event Contact Number: 805-772-1068 Gallery Hours: 11am to 5pm, Daily & closed Tuesdays Brian Johnson is a passionate artist, known for abstracting reality. His work all originated from snapping photos of reality. Unlike most abstract artists, he doesn’t start from a blank slate. Brian’s work has a distinct and unusual process, but he does not intend for the process of his work to be its narrative. Instead, Brian is goal oriented while working on art, which is unusual given that he is more often a process-first-centered-thinker. Brian is open to experimenting in order to reach surprising and interesting enigmatic artistic ends. Brian’s abstract work pursues the 400+ year old philosophical art term: the sublime.What is the Sublime? The sublime was a prominent art term and visual pursuit, particularly in the 18th and 19th centuries. However in it’s heyday, the sublime was pictorially sought through naturalistic landscape paintings. Products which are very different from Brian’s abstract work.In […]