Kathleen Johnson - Mont Blanc and Other Mountains
Sept. 8th - Oct. 7th
Opened: Friday, September 8th, 7-10pm
David Patton Los Angeles, a home for vigorous contemporary art located in the Highland Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, launches our third exhibition, ignites our first solo show, and submerges into what will be our premier art season with the presentation of "Mont Blanc and Other Mountains of Madness" by Los Angeles artist Kathleen Johnson.
Johnson's work investigates fantastic landscapes, both real and imagined, based on the miraculous yet overlooked spaces of everyday life. From artist's projects explore realms that easily straddle the plausible and the incredible. Her work is a hallucinatory vision of what might be present in the most ordinary of spaces.
Awakening us to the wondrous properties of these quotidian worlds, Johnson's ongoing Pools photographic series imagines a lost Atlantis architecture in which Lovecraftian ice mountains emerge from the floor of the common and unsuspecting Southern Californian back yard swimming pool. Replacing the pool steps and creating its own scale, perspective and geometry, the large-scale Mont Blanc at David Patton Los Angeles captures the new hybrid sculptural form at a distinct time signature in its formation, revealing subtle changes in light and surface pattern.
Paired with a fragile sister sculpture of elemental wonder, which was on display during the opening on Friday the 8th only, the show will be a fitting tribute to summer's end.
Johnson received a BFA from Otis Art Institute and an MFA from the University of Southern California. Recent projects include a solo exhibition at Lucas Schoormans Gallery, NY; The Minded Swarm at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions; and a multi-year project with Taalman Koch Architecture for High Desert Test Sites. Upcoming projects include a photographic landscape survey based on her 2004 residency at the Mars Desert Research Station, a Mars analog site in Southern Utah.
In addition to the new exhibition, we have added a number of books to our in-house bookstore: Shirely Tse “Sculpture and Photography 1996-2000” which was produced for a show in South Korea (very far away), “Power Towers” another volume on Shirley’s work, this time in conjunction with the Project Series at the Pomona College Museum of Art (much closer), and “Indecision Time” a volume produced by LA artist (and resident of HP) Ed Johnson for a 2003 show of the same name at the beloved London Street Projects (fondly remembered). “Indecision Time” features essays by the artist, Domenick Ammirati (who writes regularly for Artforum and is a contributing editor of ArtUS magazine and whose work has appeared in numerous other publications including Contemporary and Index), Jon Wurster (yes, of Superchunk) and Jon Raymond (author of “Half-Life”, and the screenplay to “Old Joy” a film featuring Will Oldham).
Opened: Friday, September 8th, 7-10pm
David Patton Los Angeles, a home for vigorous contemporary art located in the Highland Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, launches our third exhibition, ignites our first solo show, and submerges into what will be our premier art season with the presentation of "Mont Blanc and Other Mountains of Madness" by Los Angeles artist Kathleen Johnson.
Johnson's work investigates fantastic landscapes, both real and imagined, based on the miraculous yet overlooked spaces of everyday life. From artist's projects explore realms that easily straddle the plausible and the incredible. Her work is a hallucinatory vision of what might be present in the most ordinary of spaces.
Awakening us to the wondrous properties of these quotidian worlds, Johnson's ongoing Pools photographic series imagines a lost Atlantis architecture in which Lovecraftian ice mountains emerge from the floor of the common and unsuspecting Southern Californian back yard swimming pool. Replacing the pool steps and creating its own scale, perspective and geometry, the large-scale Mont Blanc at David Patton Los Angeles captures the new hybrid sculptural form at a distinct time signature in its formation, revealing subtle changes in light and surface pattern.
Paired with a fragile sister sculpture of elemental wonder, which was on display during the opening on Friday the 8th only, the show will be a fitting tribute to summer's end.
Johnson received a BFA from Otis Art Institute and an MFA from the University of Southern California. Recent projects include a solo exhibition at Lucas Schoormans Gallery, NY; The Minded Swarm at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions; and a multi-year project with Taalman Koch Architecture for High Desert Test Sites. Upcoming projects include a photographic landscape survey based on her 2004 residency at the Mars Desert Research Station, a Mars analog site in Southern Utah.
In addition to the new exhibition, we have added a number of books to our in-house bookstore: Shirely Tse “Sculpture and Photography 1996-2000” which was produced for a show in South Korea (very far away), “Power Towers” another volume on Shirley’s work, this time in conjunction with the Project Series at the Pomona College Museum of Art (much closer), and “Indecision Time” a volume produced by LA artist (and resident of HP) Ed Johnson for a 2003 show of the same name at the beloved London Street Projects (fondly remembered). “Indecision Time” features essays by the artist, Domenick Ammirati (who writes regularly for Artforum and is a contributing editor of ArtUS magazine and whose work has appeared in numerous other publications including Contemporary and Index), Jon Wurster (yes, of Superchunk) and Jon Raymond (author of “Half-Life”, and the screenplay to “Old Joy” a film featuring Will Oldham).
