CHERYL JOHNSON Abstract Expressionist Artist | Sculptor | Photographer
Found Objects From her earliest experiments with painting, Johnson has explored processes that skew the expected grid, incorporating traditional and new materials or integrating found objects, even deconstructing her own works and reusing the elements to create any number of others. She has explored the role of the artist’s hand and the use of technologies to create works that range from the size of a page to wall murals and free form sculptures. In addition to her studio works and commissions, Johnson is an accomplished writer, teacher and mentor to other artists and designers. © Cheryl Johnson (born 1947) 1 of 8
Builds with Color Cheryl Johnson is an artist who builds with color and thinks with color and line. From her earliest work created in the late 1980s to the present day, she has crossed the bounds of painting, sculpture, design, drawing, and photography, and has been a critical force in redefining the idea of contemporary art-making. While challenging the relationship of fine art to commercial art, and studio work. Abstract Expressionist Artist
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CHERYL JOHNSON Expressive Voices of Different Materials
Johnson’s self-described practice of “linear thinking” and “composing texture” reflects the Bauhaus tradition of finding the expressive voices of different materials and the dynamic interactions of color. From her earliest experiments with painting, Johnson has explored processes that skew the traditional grid, incorporating traditional and new materials or integrating found objects, even deconstructing her own works and reusing the elements to create any number of others. She has explored the role of the artist’s hand and the use of technologies to create works that range from the size of a page to wall murals and free form sculptures. In addition to her studio works and commissions, Johnson is a teacher and mentor to other artists and designers. While challenging the relationship of fine art to commercial art, and studio practice to site-specific commissions, Johnson has, above all, reimagined the profound, vital relationship between artist and artisan. Cheryl Johnson: addresses the artist’s conceptual, procedural, and material concerns via five distinct, though intimately related, fields of inquiry: bas reliefs and sculptures; small creations and drawings; commissions works made of found objects. Born in Kellogg, Idaho, Johnson received her BFA and MFA degrees from Oklahoma State University.
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“CHANGING THE WORLD ONE GREAT IDEA AT A TIME… SUCCESS LIES IN HOW WE PERFORM, INSPIRE, MOTIVATE AND CHALLENGE.” Cheri’
Expressive Voices of Different Materials Johnson’s self-described practice of “linear thinking” and “composing texture” reflects the Bauhaus tradition of finding the expressive voices of different materials and the dynamic interactions of color.
From her earliest experiments with painting, Johnson has explored processes that skew the traditional grid, incorporating traditional and new materials or integrating found objects, even deconstructing her own works and reusing the elements to create any number of others.
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CHERYL JOHNSON Spontaneous Creation
Multi-faceted She has explored the role of the artist’s hand and the use of technologies to create works that range from the size of a page to wall murals and free form sculptures. In addition to her studio works and commissions, Johnson is a teacher and mentor to other artists and designers. She loves creating in layers. Cheryl Johnson’s brand of Abstract Expressionism, emphasizes spontaneous creation and emotional intensity. Her work is a process of evolution, bordering between abstraction, the conceptual and the figurative. Her palette, muted subtle colors. She uses the blackest and palest of shades to bathe her work in luminous light and shadow. The effect is brooding and nebulous, yet meditative.
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Johnson’s works are hard to typify. They range from abstracts with large washes of color to gestural, fleshy nudes, figurative studies— but they all showcase her wide-ranging vocabulary and dynamism in creation. Cheryl Johnson’s brand of Abstract Expressionism, emphasizes spontaneous creation and emotional intensity. Her work is a process of evolution, bordering between abstraction, the conceptual and the figurative. Her palette, muted subtle colors. She uses the blackest and palest of shades to bathe her work in luminous light and shadow. The effect is brooding and nebulous, yet meditative.
Johnson’s works are hard to typify. They range from abstracts with large washes of color to gestural, fleshy nudes, figurative studies— but they all showcase her wide-ranging vocabulary and dynamism in creation.
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Builds with Color
My paintings are very physical, and my process involves carving, caressing, painting, and melting multiple layers of mixed media, oil, acrylic, watercolor, and wax. The layered history is integral to each piece. The final layer is encapsulated by damar varnish, wax or resin revealing and concealing what lies beneath.  
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