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Julienne Johnson

Julienne Johnson

Los Angeles, CA, United States47 works10 exhibitionsWebsite ↗

I make art to communicate what I cannot communicate with words; what I need to say about what's going on in the world around us; what I cannot fix; what I wish I could make different with my paint and clay or…

Artist

Julienne Johnson

Los Angeles, CA, United States

About

Julienne Johnson is a multi-disciplinary artist whose practice includes drawing, painting, sculpture, and assemblage. She has been engaged professionally in a variety of other creative disciplines, most notably songwriting, with both Grammy and Dove Award nominations to her credit. Her latest music was released in Oslo, Norway, April 2019 for award winning producer, Knut Asphol. Her poetry has been published in the United States, and the UK. Despite her success in these areas, Johnson's most profound connection is with the visual arts – her strongest, most direct form of communication.

She trained classically as a fine arts major at Taylor University, Indiana and continued painting representationally for the next ten years doing commissions, while exhibiting minimally. Much later, after re-settling in Los Angeles, Johnson returned to studying art briefly at Otis College of Art & Design in 2005, transferring to Art Center College of Design in 2006 where she custom coordinated a Master’s-level type program and was mentored by the late Franklyn Liegel.

Since 2010, Johnson has been honored with 5 solo exhibitions across the United States, including a solo museum show at the Southern Nevada Museum of Fine Art; her sculpture and paintings have been included in numerous museum shows around the world, including: Armenia, Japan, China, Qatar, Italy and Thailand. Her work can be found in 7 Museum Permanent Collections internationally and can be viewed on permanent exhibition at the Arab American National Museum in Michigan, and several museums in Italy and Thailand. Residencies include: China, Italy, Japan, Thailand and Mexico.

Her work can be found in private and corporate collections across the globe. She resides in Southern California.

Artist statement

I make art to communicate what I cannot communicate with words;

what I need to say about what's going on in the world around us;

what I cannot fix;

what I wish I could make different with my paint and clay or metal and wood;

I work very hard at it - always with my hands, smearing, scraping, sanding - until the experience becomes intimately personal;

communication is at the heart of every creation, wedded to a humanistic concern;

I yearn with passion to make sense of it all;

fulfillment comes only after I am personally satisfied with having known, experienced and conveyed - or at least tried to convey, an ongoing, meaningful conversation;

a conversation that has found its way in the work itself;

a conversation that may potentially transpire a continuance of the same with each viewer - long after the paint has dried.


Works

Selected works

47 works

Accelerando Rosa
Accelerando RosaOil with Mixed Media Pigments Transfers Collage on Canvas · 36 x 36
Le Suite Jany #1
Le Suite Jany #1_oil_acrylic_Conte crayon_Chinese ink_pigment_transfers_collage on canvas
Green Study
Green StudyOil with Mixed Media Pigments Transfers Collage on Canvas · 9 x 9
Pavone
PavoneOil with mixed media transfers collage on canvas
Pavone
PavoneOil with Mixed Media Pigments Transfers Collage on Canvas · 48 x 72
Chandler
Chandleroil with mixed media collage pigment transfers on canvas
Purple Study
Purple StudyOil with Mixed Media Pigments on Canvas · 9 x 9
Le suite-jany #1
Le suite-jany #1oil acrylic Conte crayon Chinese ink pigment transfers collage on canvas
Under The Yellow
Under The YellowOil with Mixed Media Pigments on Canvas · 48 x 72
Achromatic Poem
Achromatic Poemmixed_media_with_digital manipulation_Chinese ink_archival ink_graphite__Conte crayon_on_BFK_Rives_archival_paper · 40 x 32
Obbligato
ObbligatoOil with Mixed media and found objects · 42 x 32
Obligatto #1 Detail
Obligatto #1 DetailOil with Mixed media and found objects · 42 x 30
SSOR (Strategic Source of Repair)
SSOR (Strategic Source of Repair)oil painting with mixed media cloth pigment transfers and collage on canvas · 40 x 40
Touched #2
Touched #2Oil with mixed media and found objects · 18 x 18
CODA #17
CODA #17Mixed Media · 43 x 34
CODA #17
CODA #17
Last Rendezview en Bleu
Last Rendezview en Bleu
Pensive Male Nude
Pensive Male Nude
Pensive Male Nude
Pensive Male Nude
Antoine
AntoineHand mixed oils, mixed media and pigments and transferred collage on canvas · 30 x 40
MORENO
MORENOHand mixed oils, mixed media and pigments and transferred collage on canvas · 40 x 30
Bangkok Boogie
Bangkok Boogieoil w mixed media_pigment transfers_collage on particle board · 40 x 30
Canon Rouge
Canon RougeOil with mixed media_pigment transfers and collage on canvas · 48 x 72
Julienne Johnson, Coda #18
Julienne Johnson, Coda #18Mixed media with Charcoal_Chinese ink_Conte stick_photography_digital manipulation on archival paper with artist torn edges_43inx35in · 29 x 39
Firebird
FirebirdOil with mixed media_ pigment transfers_collage on canvas · 48 x 72
Obbligato
ObbligatoOil with mixed media_pigment transfers and collage on canvas · 30 x 40
Ozymandias
OzymandiasOil with mixed media_pigment transfers_collage on canvas · 61 x 65
Wetherly
Wetherlyoil with mixed media_pigment transfers_collage on canvas_60inx48in · 48 x 60
Darkhorse
Darkhorsemixed media, pigment transfers and collage on canvas · 48 x 72
Firebird
Firebirdmixed media, pigment transfers and collage on canvas · 48 x 72
Trust
Trustmedia, oil on canvas · 168 x 60
Le Suite Jany 01_Julienne Johnson
Le Suite Jany 01_Julienne Johnsonmixed media on archival print
Le Suite Jany 02
Le Suite Jany 02mixed media, Chinese Ink on archival paper
Le Suite Jany 03
Le Suite Jany 03Mixed media, Chinese Ink on archival paper
Le Suite Jany 04
Le Suite Jany 04
Le Suite Jany 05
Le Suite Jany 05Mixed media, Chinese Ink on archival paper
Obligatto#1
Obligatto#1Oil with Mixed media and found objects · 40 x 30
Baalbek
Baalbekoil with mixed media and found objects · 24 x 36
Dark Horse
Dark HorseArchival Ink, Chinese Ink, charcoal, graphite and conte on Rives archival paper · 27 x 33
Touched#2 (fragment)
Touched#2 (fragment)Oil with mixed media and found objects · 18 x 18
Touched #1 (fragment)
Touched #1 (fragment)Oil with mixed media, found objects, Nitrile gloves · 43 x 33
Acromatic Poem Store
Acromatic Poem StoreArchival Ink, Chinese Ink, charcoal, graphite and conte on Rives archival paper · 34 x 28
Touched #6 (fragment)
Touched #6 (fragment)Acrylic, Plaster, Nitrile gloves on canvas over berch panel box · 50 x 50
Jany Suire #1
Jany Suire #1ARCHIVAL PRINT: · 18 x 18
Jany Suite #2
Jany Suite #2ARCHIVAL PRINT: · 18 x 18
Spiritus
Spiritus
Hangar 13
Hangar 13

The record

Exhibition history

10 exhibitions