Stacie Johnson
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Evaluating Symmetry
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I paint portraits of everyday objects in which formal decisions describe the extra energy within each object; a kind of material mysticism in which common objects become animated with psychic potential.
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Terrier Snowflake
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The work is often informed by Feng Shui, Astrology, and symbols of good luck, both real and fictitious and from various sources and cultures. I like the idea of objects or arrangements of objects having the power to alter one's life, and I am interested in the similiarity between this and a formal discussion about painting; the serendipity of color and shape.
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Protection
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Two Inside
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Rocks, Stars, Wall.
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Dedicated to observational and abstract traditions in painting, I am also aware that singularly, each is conservative and out-dated. A narrative of fetishizing Modernism and finding transcendence through Pop intensify the still life and the graphic abstraction.
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Plant
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My work is about an honesty of simultaneously actualizing enigmatic images and realizing artificiality; a Modernist sense of belief and a Postmodern awareness of limitation. Sincerity and sarcasm reveal the mundane as both magical and synthetic.
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