Chuck Johnson is an abstract painter whose approach to art making explores the conflicted relationship between the decorative traditions in geometric patterns found in other cultures and western modernism. His recent paintings avoid culturally specific subject matter in favor of a more elusive pictorial terrain of contemporary abstraction, in an attempt to reflect a broader generational curiosity where the familiar and unfamiliar converge.
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Exhibition
Chuck Johnson
Fall 2019
Chuck Johnson is an abstract painter whose approach to art making explores the conflicted relationship between the decorative traditions in geometric patterns found in other cultures and western modernism. His recent paintings avoid culturally specific subject matter in favor of a more elusive pictorial terrain of contemporary abstraction, in an attempt to reflect a broader generational curiosity where the familiar and unfamiliar converge.