Keith Johnson
C W O S ARTIST
Erector Square
Erector Square
Bldg #5, 3rd Floor, Suite D
New Haven, CT 06505
Phone: 203-288-2336 v&f
Neighborhood : New Haven: Erector Square
Email: kj (at) keithjohnsonphotographs (dot) com
Website: http://www.keithjohnsonphotographs.com
Artist Statement
New Work
My new work is about extending the photographic document beyond the single print using multiple images. I started this in the early 80s and it has periodically shown up over the years. Extended imagery is similar to what a poet might do when combining paragraphs, or a filmmaker does when splicing film into a montage. Recently though, I have devoted my energies to investigating both the grid and linear multiple presentations.
The camera documents better than any device the detail and surface of objects, places, and ideas. Sometimes the involvement with an idea goes on to look at multiple facets; consider what cubist painters accomplished early in the 20th century. Sometimes extended viewing of a visual idea would reveal not only the idea. Time, light, color, and comparison would change during the extended time spent looking.
When presenting multiple images in a grid the viewer is given a bunch of picture ideas with be involved with just as I had when I made the pictu
Selected Works
|  Flies over Niagara - 2008 - archival in jet print - 24x30  Mac Dancing - 2009 - archival ink jet - 24x30  Alphaballetic - 2009 - archival inkjet - 24x28  Cuneiforulaic - 2009 - archival inkjet - 22x28  Glyphometric - 2009 - archival inkjet - 22x24  Light Faeries - 2009 - archival inkjet - 24x28  Indian Village - 2008 - archival inkjet - 24x28  Mac's Good Oysters - 2008 - archival inkjet - 24x28  Old Growth - 2008 - archival inkjet - 24x30  UK Hedge - 2006 - archival inkjet - 24x30  Yuma Rocks - 2008 - archival inkjet - 24X32  Faces Firenze - 2008 - archival inkjet - 24x28  EW Falls - 2008 - archival ink jet - 24x30  White Christmas - 2008 - archival ink jet - 24x30 |
Artist Bio
Keith Johnson studied with Harry Callahan and Aaron Siskind at RISD and with Nathan Lyons. Ten years of teaching led to a move to the business side of photography completing an MBA. He supports his fine art making as a sales and marketing consultant in the northeast and is on the summer faculty at VSW, Maine Media Workshop, Penland School of Crafts, and Jackson Hole Art Association.
Recent solo shows include Kehler Liddell Gallery, Griffin Museum, NESOP, CEPA Gallery, FotoFest, George Eastman House, Panopticon Gallery in Boston, Nelson Hancock Gallery, Brooklyn, NY and Wall Space gallery in Seattle.
Collections include RISD, George Eastman House, and Center for Creative Photography; he is a recipient of two Connecticut Commission on the Arts Fellowships, and artist residencies at Loomis Chaffee School, Light Work, Visual Studies Workshop and CEPA.
He lives in Hamden, CT, with is wife Becky of 39 years.