Julienne Johnson's "Touch Me Touch You" Unveils at TAG Gallery July 17th - August 11th, 2012
Contemporary artist, Julienne Johnson debuts her latest body of work, TOUCH ME TOUCH YOU at TAG Gallery July 17th - August 11th, 2012. TOUCH ME TOUCH YOU embodies the spirit of her previous Ashes For Beauty series, in which memory, texture, and fleeting connections to the world around us inform our very place within it.
- Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA (1888PressRelease) July 07, 2012 - Julienne Johnson's latest body of work, TOUCH ME TOUCH YOU debuts at TAG Gallery July 17th - August 11th, 2012. TOUCH ME TOUCH YOU was further inspired by Johnson's recent journey to Doha, Qatar, where her work was presented along with that of thirteen other international artists. Johnson's personal experience with Middle Eastern culture, and the unsettling emotions she encountered while in Doha, has found its way into the work: we see a mix of various materials, pigment transfers, and collage shaping itself into memories of words and presences. Communication - the first step toward empathy - is at the heart of Johnson's work. In a world where casual interactions are conducted more and more through the curtain of anonymity afforded by technology. TOUCH ME TOUCH YOU embodies a yearning for a fuller understanding of those we encounter, though often only briefly, in transit. These paintings are the instruments of Johnson's reaching out. Added to, reduced, and ultimately refined, they are about what we try to remember: those brief moments of genuine affinity to another we cannot easily forget.
"Johnson's is a method, and a world view, both eruptive and lyrical, delighting in its own textures even as it responds urgently to the world and the soul."
- Peter Frank, Art Critic for The Huffington Post, Associate Editor for Fabric Magazine
"Johnson's work, in its dedication to find a unified form of the senses, speaks of a further, more meaningful conversation that is taking place."
- James Bae, a Contributing Editor for Paper Monument magazine -‐ a Journal of Contemporary Art, independent curator and past interim curator at the Riverside Art Museum
TAG Gallery, Bergamot Station D3, 2525 Michigan Avenue, Santa Monica, CA 90404
TOUCH ME TOUCH YOU Gallery Events:
Tuesday, July 17 - Saturday, August 11, 2012
TAG Gallery Artist Reception & Book Signing: Saturday, July 21st 5pm - 9pm
ABOUT THE BOOK:
JULIENNE JOHNSON -‐ ASHES FOR BEAUTY
EDITED BY PETER FRANK
Other Contributors:
Foreword: Aida Eltorie, Curator of the Egyptian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2011
Essay: William Moreno, former Director of the Mexican Museum in San Francisco
Notations: Jennifer Park, Curatorial Assistant at MOCA
Photographer: Olivier Ferrand, Geneva, Switzerland
Photographer: Susan Yi, Curatorial Assistant at MOCA
ASHES FOR BEAUTY documents Johnson's "Ashes For Beauty" collection of work from 2008 -2011, the subject of two solo exhibitions of the same name: 2010 and 2011 respectively.
Johnson is represented in the USA by TAG Gallery and in Doha, Qatar by the ANIMA Gallery, where she is one of 14 international artists and the sole American Artist. She is represented in Europe and the Middle East by Aida Eltorie, Heliopolis, Egypt.
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