Group Shows and Art Fairs
New Work, 2020
Oddments Bag #2, Batch #1.
2020, Oil on canvas70 x 100 cm
For Clarkes Bookshop Auction, 2020
Keep My Place
2020, Oil on canvas board30 x 40,5 cm
For the DO-nation Auction, 2020
Rework
2020, Acrylic on Zerkall76cm x 106,5cm
From Rendevous II, 2019, SMITH, Cape Town
Oddments Set
2019, Acrylic on Canvas72cm x 102cm x 6,5cm
A recurring preoccupation of Johnson's is the complex sentimental relationships people form with objects – how objects can become surrogates for lost human relationships or can come to embody unattainable dreams, memories of distant times and, as such, in their presence can become embodiments of absence itself.
In response to these interests she mines the personal belongings of those close to her for source material – things cherished and things recently discarded, this time fabric offcuts from a tailor shop leftover after the cutting of a garment – and attempts to translate in equal measures the physical and psychological form of the object, while at the same time celebrating the impossibility of the translation of personal perception.
From Emphatic Whispers, 2019, SMITH, Cape Town
Ceremonial Leftovers,
2019, Merino wool felt63 x 59 cm
For Art Gazette, 2019
The Idleist Study I, II, III
2019, Lithograph on Munken LynxEdition of 20
From Art Joburg, 2019 Presented by SMITH, Johannesburg
Met liefde aan Rosie van Ma / Conhada ofereceme no dia da Festa de 1960
2019, Found Material174 x 230 cm
From Re-Imagining Realities, Open24Hrs, Cape Town
House Warming, Self Grooming, North Facing
2016, Linocut on paper120 x 80 cm, 120 x 80 cm,
140 x 99 cm
From Out of Nowhere, 2017, SMITH, Cape Town
Keeping Quiet I and II
2017, Painting on acrylic
From Sketch, 2016, SMITH, Cape Town
Smug
2016, Acrylic on paper