JAY MARK JOHNSON WAVE LENGHTS
WILLIAM TURNER GALLERY
WAVE LENGHTS The William Turner Gallery is pleased to present WAVE LENGTHS, an exhibition of large format color photographs by artist Jay Mark Johnson. The images depict the rhythmic cycling and recycling of oceanfront waves as recorded on remote coastlines around the world--in Hawaii, Florida, California, the Caribbean, Great Britain, Australia and South Africa. The artworks in this exhibition belong to the artist’s ongoing inquiry into the possibilities for timeline photography. For this decades-long project Johnson employs an unconventional camera system to produce seamless delineated renderings of familiar events as they occur over time. The results present an altered view of our surroundings. As architectural theorist Lebbeus Woods states “Experimental evidence produced since the creation of Einstein’s Special Theory confirms that space and time are in fact elastic and interdependent. Jay Mark Johnson’s studies are plays upon the relative mutability of our physical reality.”
Artworks from Johnson’s timeline series have been exhibited extensively throughout the U.S. and Europe. They can be found in the permanent collections of the Bundestag (German Parliament) in Berlin, the Zentrum fßr Kunst und Medientechnologie at Karlsruhe, the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, the Phoenix Art Museum, the Langen Foundation, Hombroich, Germany, the Peter Klein Museum Kunstwerk, Eberdingen, Germany, the collection of Michael G. Wilson, the Milken Family Foundation, Santa Monica and the Fidelity Corporate Art Collection, Boston. Works from earlier periods are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Smithsonian Institution and the Art Institute of Chicago. The artist resides in Santa Monica, California.
CAPE OF GOOD HOPE #106, Cape Town, South Africa 2014 Durst Lambda print, film, aluminum, 40” (H) x 288” (W) triptych, Edition 1/3 FRAMELESS”
CAPE OF GOOD HOPE #112, Cape Town, South Africa 2014 Durst Lambda print, film, aluminum, 40” (H) x 120” (W), Edition 1/3 FRAMELESS
COZUMEL WAVES #4, Cozumel, Mexico 2009 Durst Lambda print, film, aluminum, 40” (H) x 114” (W) , Edition 1/3 FRAMELESS
COZUMEL WAVES #5 Cozumel, Mexico 2009 Archival pigment, paper, aluminum, wood frame, 25.5” (H) x 85.5” (W), Edition 1/9 FRAMED
COZUMEL WAVES #6 Cozumel, Mexico 2009 Archival pigment, paper, aluminum, wood frame, 25.5” (H) x 73.5” (W), Edition 1/9 FRAMED
FORT DE SOTO WAVES #6 St Petersburg, Florida 2013 Archival pigment, paper, aluminum, wood frame, 25.5” (H) x 73.5” (W), Edition 1/9 FRAMED
FORT DE SOTO WAVES #36 St Petersburg, Florida 2013 Archival pigment, paper, aluminum, wood frame, 25.5” (H) x 85.5” (W), Edition 1/9 FRAMED
FORT DE SOTO WAVES #39 St Petersburg, Florida 2013 Archival pigment, paper, aluminum, wood frame, 25.5” (H) x 73.5” (W), Edition 1/9 FRAMED
LOS OSOS #50, Morro Bay 2012 Archival pigment, paper, aluminum, wood frame, 25.5” (H) x 109.5” (W), Edition 1/9 FRAMED
SEAL ROCKS WAVES #27 New South Wales 2012 Archival pigment, paper, aluminum, wood frame, 25.5” (H) x 109.5” (W), Edition 1/9 FRAMED
STORM AT SEA #1, Los Angeles 2010 Archival pigment, paper, aluminum, wood frame, 25.5” (H) x 59.5” (W), Edition 6/9 FRAMED
STORM AT SEA #4, Los Angeles 2010 Archival pigment, paper, aluminum, wood frame, 25.5” (H) x 73.5” (W), Edition 5/9 FRAMED
WAIKOLOA SUNSET #36, Big Island, Hawaii, 2010 Archival pigment, paper, aluminum, wood liner, 24” (H) x 66” (W), Edition 1/9 FRAMELESS
JAY MARK JOHNSON CV RECENT SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2015 2013 2013 2012 2012 2012 2012 2011 2011 2011 2011 2010 2009 2009 2009 2008 2008 2007 2007 2007 2007
WAVE LENGTHS, WIlliam Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA US NO SUCH PLACE, William Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA US PHOTO LA 2013, Los Angeles, CA US NO SUCH PLACE, Boutwell Draper Gallery, Sydney AU THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS, Christ Church, Oxford University UK SPACETIME: Beyond the Constraints of Perception. UCLA Cotsen Institute, Los Angeles, CA USA PHOTO LA 2012, Los Angeles, CA USA TEMPO LINEARE, La Botte Ristorante, Los Angeles CA USA EL ANARQUISTA Y EL AUTOMOVIL, Galerie Deschler, Berlin DE Motion Studies, Kunstforum Essenheim, Esseheim DE Venice Spacewalk, Venice Family Clinic & Animal West, Los Angeles, CA USA Venice Spacewalk, Venice Family Clinic, Los Angeles, CA USA SCOPE Basel 09, Galerie Deschler, Basel CH GERMAN CONSULATE, Basel CH SPACETIME, ACE Gallery, Los Angeles, CA USA Swept Away, Galerie Deschler, Berlin DE New Work Hamburg, aplanat Galerie für Photography, Hamburg DE Motion Studies, aplanat Galerie für Photografie, Hamburg DE Motion Studies, Galerie Deschler, Berlin DE Tempo Lineare, Cetona IT Taichi Motion Studies, aplanat Galerie für Fotographie, Hamburg DE
RECENT GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND ART FAIRS 2015 2013 2013 2013 2013 2013 2012 2012 2012 2012 2012 2012 2012 2012 2012 2011 2011 2011 2011 2011 2011 2011
Ethereal, William Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA US Venice Art Walk & Auctions, Venice Family Clinic, Los Angeles, CA USA SNAP! ORLANDO, Orlando, FL US LEBBEUS WOODS, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA US LUMINOUS, Melissa Morgan Fine Art, Palm Desert, CA US ARTIST OF THE GALLERY, ACE Gallery, Los Angeles, CA US IN THE WOODS, Galerie Deschler, Berlin DE IN THE PICTURES, Galerie Deschler, Berlin DE PACIFIC STANDARD TIME, Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard SCOPE Basel 2012, Galerie Deschler, Basel CH Venice Art Walk & Auctions, Venice Family Clinic, Los Angeles, CA USA one shot: the city, The Loft at Liz’s, Los Angeles, CA USA ART FOR CLAIRE, Santa Monica, CA USA ARTWORKS FOR THE CURE, Los Angeles, CA USA Winter Setting, Galerie Deschler, Berlin DE PREVIEW BERLIN, Berlin DE SCOPE Basel 2011, Galerie Deschler, Basel CH SOLID STRIPES, LAUNCH LA,Los Angeles, CA USA ART FOR CLARE, Santa Monica, CA USA PHOTO LA 2011, Los Angeles, CA USA IN THE PICTURES, Galerie Deschler, Berlin DE CULTURE, ART, TECHNOLOGY, Sixth College, University of California at San Diego, San Diego, CA
2011 2010 2010 2010 2010 2010 2010 2010 2010 2010 2010 2010 2010 2010 2009 2009 2009 2008 2008 2008 2008 2007 2007 2007 2007 2006
Art Karlsruhe, Galerie Deschler, Karlsruhe DE Elements of Nature, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA USA Technical Matters, Galerie Deschler, Berlin DE CONTEMPORARY ISTANBUL, 2010, Istanbul TK SHFT.com, Estee Lauder, New York City USA PREVIEW BERLIN, Berlin DE SWELL: art 1950 2010 Metro Pictures, Nyehaus, Friedrich Petzel, New York City USA NEW DEPARTUREs, Galerie Deschler, Berlin DE Art Karlsruhe, Galerie Deschler, Karlsruhe DE SCOPE Basel 10, Galerie Deschler, Basel CH Venice Art Walk & Auctions, Venice Family Clinic, Los Angeles, CA USA Photos and Phantasy, Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Los Angeles, CA USA SHFT.com, Los Angeles, CA USA Charitybuzz Auction, Christie’s, New York City, NY USA Art Karlsruhe, Galerie Deschler, Karlsruhe DE PHOTO LA 2009, ACE Gallery, Los Angeles, CA USA Summer Setting, Galerie Deschler, Berlin DE Photos and Phantasy, Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard, CA USA PHOTO LA 2008, ACE Gallery, Los Angeles, CA USA Kunstkorperlich, Kunsthalle, Osnabruck DE Art Karlsruhe, Galerie Deschler, Karlsruhe DE PHOTO LA 2007, ACE Gallery, Los Angeles, CA USA Tribute to Irving Penn, apalant Galerie für Photografie, Hamburg DE Technical Matters, Galerie Deschler, Berlin DE Tribute to Irving Penn, aplanat Galerie für Fotographie, Hamburg DE Winter Setting, Galerie Deschler, Berlin DE
ARTWORK IN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS 2013 PHOENIX ART MUSEUM, PHOENIX, AZ USA 2012 Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe DE 2011 Milken Family Foundation, Santa Monica, CA USA 2011 SAM NAZARIAN, LOS ANGELES, CA USA 2011 ANGELLA AND DAVID NAZARIAN, LOS ANGELES, CA USA 2009 Fidelity Corporate Art Collection, Boston, MA USA 2008 Alison and Peter Klein, Museum Kunstwerk, Eberdingen DE 2007 Frederick R. Weisman Art FOundation, Los Angeles, CA USA 2007 Langen Foundation, Hombroich DE 2007 MICHAEL G. WILSON, LOS ANGELES, CA USA 1984 Art Institute of Chicago, IL USA 1984 Smithsonian Institution, Traveling Exhibition Service, WASHINGTON D. C. USA 1983 Smithsonian Institution, Division of Political History, WASHINGTON D. C. USA 1979 Museum of Modern Art, NEW YORK CITY , NY USA EDUCATION AND BIRTHPLACE 1997 - 98 Linguistic Anthropology, Biological Anthropology, UCLA Los Angeles, CA USA 1978 - 80 Institute For Architecture And Urban Studies, New York City, NY USA 1973 - 79 Master of Architecture, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA USA 1955 Born in St. Petersburg, FL USA PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATION 2003-12 Directors Guild of America, (as a Director) Los Angeles, CA USA
THEATRE AND PERFORMANCE ART (1983-1994) 1994 THE OTHER WEAPON (McCauley) Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA USA 1994 THE OTHER WEAPON (McCauley) Highways, Los Angeles, CA USA 1994 THE OTHER WEAPON (McCauley) Seward Hall, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA USA 1987 INDIAN BLOOD (McCauley) The Kitchen, New York City, NY USA 1986 THE HOUR BEFORE MY BROTHER DIES (Keene) Interart Theatre, New York City, NY USA 1986 WHAT’S UP ZACK? (Purdy) Laight Again Club, New York City, NY USA 1986 MY GRANDFATHER AND THE WARS (McCaulley) Henry Street Settlement, New York City, NY USA 1984 MY FATHER BELONGED TO THE FBI BUT I WAS A SOVIET SPY (Zonzinzky) The Kitchen, New York City, NY USA 1984 RANCHO NOTORIOUS (Lang) The Pyramid Club, New York City, NY USA 1983 LOCAL STIGMATIC (H. Williams) Laight Again Club, New York City, NY USA 1983 THE DAILY ACTIVITIES OF SLAVES, (Altomare) The Pyramid Club, New York City, NY USA 1982 THE DAILY ACTIVITIES OF SLAVES, (Altomare)Theatre For a New CIty, New York City, NY USA PRINT GRAPHICS (1983-1994) 1992 - 94 1984 - 88 1986 - 89 1986 1984 1984 1983 1982 - 83
COVERT ACTION QUARTERLY, Cover Art, Editorial Cartoons, Illustrations, Washington D.C. BLACK CAT GRAPHICS COLLECTIVE, Political Posters, Silkscreen, New York City, NY USA CENTRO LIBRE DE EXPERIMENTACION TEATRAL Y ARTISTICA, Political Graphics, Mexico WOMEN OF ALL RED NATIONS, Political Posters, Silkscreen,, New York City, NY USA CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS, Political Cartoons, New York City, NY USA DECEMBER 12TH COALITION, Graphics, Banners, New York CIty, NY USA POSTCARD ACTION, Mail Art Project, New York City, NY USA EL SALVADOR MEDIA PROJECT, Graphics, New York City, NY USA
INDEPENDENT VIDEO PRODUCTION - DOCUMENTARY, FEATURE, PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENTS 1993 OZONE (Greenpeace) Director, Bombshell Productions, Los Angeles, CA USA 1990 - 91 PUBLICART, Co-founder, Director, Political Campaigns, Local Commercials, San Salvador, SV 1987 - 89 COLLECTIVO DE CINE POPULAR - FUEGO NUEVO, Co-founder, Director, Mexico D.F. 1984 XCHANGE TV, Co-founder, Political Documentaries, Manhattan Cable, New York City, NY ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN (1979 - 1984) 1984 1982-84 1982-84 1980-81 1980-81
BUCKMINSTER FULLER, Dymaxion House (1927), Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. MICHAEL FIELDMAN PARTNERS, Design, Drawings, Paintings, New York City NY USA LEBBEUS WOODS, Drawings, Models, New York City, NY USA PETER EISENMAN, Drawings, Models, New York City, NY USA ALDO ROSSI, Drawings, Paintings, Models, Milano, IT