Chris Johanson at Jack Hanley Gallery / SF
If you happen to be in San Francisco, please go see Chris Johanson’s new show at Jack Hanley Gallery. It opens tonight.
Chris Johanson
March 8 - April 12, 2008
Opening reception: Saturday, March 8th, 6-9pm
“The show is about how I am 39 years old and how all this time went into making right now. The pictures in the show start at age 24 and go to age 39 at 6pm on March 8th, 2008. It is about human communication dealing with dealing through paint. It is about personal mind control as a coping mechanism to be better at co-existence. About language to communicate in order to know of serenity. It is about cancer, death. Life. Serenity. Life. Order. Chaos. Recycle. Health food. Life. Bright colors not to draw an insect to a flame to be harmed but show possibility. Its about unfinished business and the inability to do everything. All things. Endless choices. Serenity there. Animal, plant, insect. The main reason I had to do this is this is my daily ritual to make pictures is to contemplate life and death, world and place is part of my religion. It is true. I believe. Sooner or later both ways all the time.” — Chris Johanson
Jack Hanley Gallery
395 Valencia Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
415.522.1623 p.
415.522.1631 f.
www.jackhanley.com
posted by Aaron Rose at 3:32 PM
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comment unrelated to blogpost, but necessary:
just wanted to stop in and thank you (all at ANP) for the killer magazine. i picked up a large stack of issue number six at a BARR show in lincoln, nebraska and became a small scale distributor of around town. been chopping up several copies and putting in mailings, reading and re-reading interviews and loving the high quality images and nice paper. would love to be involved in any way. will be ordering my yearly subscription next month. free in cool town only, i guess. but the deprived know how to pay. much love, and thanks again for the yums
teal gardner
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i love chris johansons work, especially his kolidoscope art. Be sure to check him out in a new film called Beautiful Losers. Go to the website to view the awesome trailer:
www.beautifullosers.com
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