Kysa Johnson
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Kysa Johnson is a modern painter, drawing from scientific sources and theories, such as string theory and the mapping of the subatomic decay of particles.[1] She was born in Evanston, Illinois in 1974, schooled in Glasgow, Scotland,and is currently a resident of Brooklyn, NY. She has exhibited regularly in both the US and the UK.
In the fall of 2004, Kysa Johnson had a solo exhibition with the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, DC. Her work is on permanent display at the Empire State Building ( in 2000 she was commissioned to create a permanent installation of six paintings for the concourse level in The Empire State Building). She has exhibited in, amongst other venues, the Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh, the Glasgow School of Art and the Muhlenberg College.[1]
In a series of her works, Johnson combines art historical references to paintings of the Immaculate Conception with the drawn forms of bacteria and other life forms that reproduce asexually. In some of these works Johnson used El Greco's paintings of the Immaculate Conception as the compositional framework for some of her works. According to Helen A. Harrison "the images are both literal and metaphoric -- clever, subversive conflations of the biblical and the biological" -- "stare at them for a while, and the El Greco underpinnings emerge".[2]
Johnson has been awarded with the NYFA (New York Foundation for the Arts) fellowship of 2003 and with the Emmy Sachs Prize.[3]
[edit] References
- ^ a b Kysa Johnson. Roebling Hall. Retrieved on December 17, 2006.
- ^ Art Review; Getting in Touch With That Inner El Greco (The New York Times). Harrison, Helen A.. Retrieved on October 15, 2006.
- ^ Kysa Johnson. Your Gallery. Retrieved on December 17, 2006.
