SOFA is pleased to present the paintings of New York artist, former Chicagoan and MAKE visual arts editor Stacie Johnson. Head on over Saturday, February 27, 7-10pm, to 301 E 33rd #7, Austin, TX for art, beer, and special snacks. Johnson will be in attendance!
Stacie Johnson makes paintings about the everyday items that she finds in her immediate surroundings. In her process of creating seemingly abstract works, Johnson first builds a temporary sculpture out of such items as fabric, pink Styrofoam, paper, tape, plants, wood, and string. Johnson carefully observes these weird tableaus of line and color, studies the forms and shadows, then re-creates the sculptures in paint. In the translation from sculpture to painting, Johnson concentrates on the tension between illusion and flatness, condensing the accumulated passages in the 3-dimensional forms to embody similar relationships in a flat image. The paintings allow the viewer simultaneously to believe in and recognize the means of illusion.
This is her first solo show outside of Chicago.
