JOHAN SORVALA

Phoenix, Arizona

Johan Sorvala is an Arizona based artist who has won competitions around the state. Johan has never worked so hard and been so mesmerized in anything in his life as he does as a painter. He wandered around most of his life piddling with this and that. Suddenly he had something to put all his energy, time, and resources into. Although his work has not fully matured, discovering his voice is enjoyable for him. He realizes as his body of work expands there will be more consistency as he learns his craft. All he needs to concentrate on is a defined space with a clear boundary from the rest of the world. All the noise beyond that disappears when he can focus all his energy on a single painting. There is still plenty there that is unknown, which insists his desire, to keep poking at something.

The visceral feeling of my body, when I stepped to the edge of the canyon, created a lasting effect. The enormous space and amount of depth this canyon has with the sun’s light traveling at 93,000,000 miles an hour, bouncing off and ricocheting from every surface in every direction and somehow being trapped by our eyeball and signaling to our brain that lives in complete darkness, is incomprehensible.

I try to convey that on a flat surface by tickling it with a little paint.

Anybody Wanna Go Camping? | 18x36, oil