Richard Johnson, Minnesota, USA

"The Mechanics of Chance" by Richard Johnson, 2001, 11" X 15", Dye Sublimation Print (Kodak XLS 8600)

Artist Statement:

My life's work has been the pursuit of the ineffable. The main consideration of my work is the very same concern that I imagine to be the impetus for the work of almost every artist, simply, the human condition. Stylistically, I consider my prints to be electronic trompe l'oeil in the tradition of the 19th c. American painters William Harnett and John F. Peto, and informed by Ralph Waldo Emerson's notion that 'every object rightly seen, unlocks a new faculty of the soul'.

Richard Johnson
richardcjohnson@mac.com
www.artfit.com/riccjoh.html

Selected Solo Exhibits:

• The Third hnage:Words and Pictures:
  Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota Duluth
  Suomi International College of Art and Design,
  The Wilson Library, Rare Books and Special Collections, Univ. of MN
  Kunsthall i Vaxjo, Vaxjo, Sweden.