JEREMIAH JOHNSON

207 Leonard St. Thibodaux, LA 70301 USA (570) 419-8431

jeremiahjohnsonart74@gmail.com - www.jeremiahjohnsonart.com

Artist Statement

Jeremiah Johnson employs a wide range of techniques and processes to develop both two and three dimensional work. His work easily blends traditional techniques with digital workflow and industrial materials. Johnson operates in the gaps between mediums to create both two dimensional and three dimensional works. 

While offering a play of stories, signs and symbols embodied in a variety of material forms, he also summons darker subtexts about the American Dream - how to be somebody - in a culture of manufactured truths and an unappeasable appetite for novelty that numb our capacity to believe anything. Johnson presents a complexly interwoven series of narrative entanglements that stretch across time, alternate worlds and multiple realities. His work often uses unsettling imagery to underscore the idea that the forces bearing down on us are not just a matter of daily struggle to make ends meet, but also impact our bodies and souls. Here, life unfolds kaleidoscopically including topics such as faith, disease, disaster, rebellion and sheer willfulness.

Johnson’s multilayered paintings utilize personal language to form a journey though the spiritual minefield of contemporary life. Covered with bold brushwork, diagrammatic notations, trance doodling psychedelia and mesmerizing horror vacui, the paintings convey a haunting tension. Jammed to all four edges with incident, they are dominated by symbolic figures and images of nature drawn from his own personal vernacular.

Artist Bio

Jeremiah Johnson was raised on a fruit and flower farm in the Appalachian Mountains of central Pennsylvania. He received his BFA from Tyler School of Art of Temple University and eventually went on to get his MFA in print, paper and book arts from Syracuse University. Johnson’s work is in several public and private collections including The State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg PA, The Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke VA, and the Servais Family Collection, Brussels Belgium.

He currently makes art in the studio he shares with his wife and visual artist Duyen Nguyen in Thibodaux Louisiana. Johnson is also the Director of the Dr. Charles J. Monier, PhD. Makerspace at Nicholls State University.

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