Keith Johnson
Primary Medium: Photography
Keith Johnson Photographs
Email: kj (at) keithjohnsonphotographs (dot) com
Website: http://www.keithjohnsonphotographs.com
Artist Statement
New Work: Grids, Typologies, Topologies, and the Extended Image.
My new work is about extending the photographic document beyond the single print using multiple images. I started doing work like 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 film maker 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, but 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 but additionally time, light, color, and comparison would change during the extended time spent looking. This is what has become compelling to me. Typology,
Keith Johnson Photographs
Email: kj (at) keithjohnsonphotographs (dot) com
Website: http://www.keithjohnsonphotographs.com
Artist Statement
New Work: Grids, Typologies, Topologies, and the Extended Image.
My new work is about extending the photographic document beyond the single print using multiple images. I started doing work like 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 film maker 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, but 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 but additionally time, light, color, and comparison would change during the extended time spent looking. This is what has become compelling to me. Typology,
Selected Works
|  Yuma Rocks - 2008 - archival ink jet - 22x30 - $900.00  UK Hedge - 2006 - archival ink jet - 22x30 - $900.00  Alphaballetic - 2009 - archival ink jet - 22x24 - $900.00  Cuneiformulaic - 2009 - archival ink jet - 22x30 - $900.00 |
Artist Bio
Keith Johnson received his MFA from RISD studying with Harry Callahan and Aaron Siskind following a year at Visual Studies Workshop with Nathan Lyons. Ten years of teaching led to a move to the business side of photography completing an MBA in 1987. He supports his fine art making as a 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 Griffin Museum, New England School of Photography, CEPA Gallery, FotoFest, George Eastman House, and Panopticon Gallery in Boston, Nelson Hancock Gallery in Brooklyn, NY and Wall Space gallery in Seattle.
Collections include RISD, George Eastman House, and Center for Creative Photography; he is a recipient of a Connecticut Commission on the Arts Fellowship, and Artist Residencies at Light Work, Visual Studies Workshop and CEPA.
He lives in Hamden, CT, with is wife Becky of 37 years.