RECENTLY IN AMERICA

Vincent Johnson

March 1 - April 30, 2017


 

PRESS RELEASE

RECENTLY IN AMERICA is the first solo exhibition for Los Angeles based artist, Vincent Johnson  at Another Year in LA online gallery.  In a recent statement about his work, Johnson wrote, “My base is Los Angeles, which has an exceptional amount of interesting architectural artifacts from the First World War period onwards. Many portions of the Los Angeles that I depict come into existence when New York was attempting to wrest the thorn crown of painting from Paris and succeeded. In the course of producing my photographic archive, I have employed strategies of production such as those used by the flaneur and the derive, in day and at night, by car and on foot, primarily in a stark and challenging urban territory, the AntiCity that is Los Angeles. Similarly, I have also allowed myself to merely wander through this world as the American artist that I am, and fall into pictures and spaces that call for documentation.

 

It is my experience that driving a car in Los Angeles and seeing the world through its windows is a complex realtime cinematic event. There is a temporary encounter and an enduring intimacy through memory via the photographed subject – this produces the photograph, as versus a sustained relationship with a single but everchanging street scene. Through auto travel one is given the privileged observer position of moving through the world as a realtime unedited film, a cinemastate; to take a number of photographs of it afterwards. Often, when I drive I look about and “remember” key images, photographs..

 

Vincent Johnson Resume

 

 

 

RECENTLY IN AMERICA

 

CLEVELAND ICE CREAM 1 OF 3, 2016

archival digital print,  21" x 28"

Price upon request

 

 

REBEL WARRIOR CAR VAN NUYS CALIFORNIA, 2016

archival digital print,  21" x 28"

Price upon request

 

 

DIRTY LOW CHICAGO, 2016

archival digital print,  21" x 28"

Price upon request

 

 

 

EAST CLEVELAND APARTMENTS, 2016

archival digital print,  21" x 28"

Price upon request

 

 

 

GOD'S CHILDREN'S HOUSE GARY INDIANA, 2016

archival digital print,  21" x 28"

Price upon request

 

 

 

ACE HOTEL PURPLE LOS ANGELES CALIFORNIA, 2016

archival digital print,  12" x 16"

Price upon request

 

 

 

APARTMENT COMPLEX VAN NUYS CALIFORNIA, 2016

archival digital print,  12" x 16"

Price upon request

 

 

 

BLUE STAR ART BAR LOS ANGELES CALIFORNIA, 2016

archival digital print, 12" x 16"

Price upon request

 

 

 

CHICAGO ORANGE CRUSH, 2016

archival digital print,  21" x 28"

Price upon request

 

 

 

CLEVELAND HALF CAR, 2016

archival digital print,  21" x 28"

Price upon request

 

 

 

GARDEN OF HAPPINESS NORTHRIDGE CALIFORNIA, 2016

archival digital print,  21" x 28"

Price upon request

 

 

 

GARY INDIANA ROW HOUSE 1 OF 2, 2016

archival digital print,  21" x 28"

Price upon request

 

 

 

INFINITY HOTEL CORRIDOR PORTLAND OREGON, 2016

archival digital print,  21" x 28"

Price upon request

 

 

 

DINER MARIETTA GEORGIA, 2016

archival digital print,  21" x 28"

Price upon request

 

 

OPEN AIR LIVING ROOM NORTH HOLLYWOOD CALIFORNIA, 2016

archival digital print,  21" x 28"

Price upon request

 

 

 

RED EAGLE GAS PUMP PORTLAND OREGON, 2016

archival digital print,  21" x 28"

Price upon request

 

 

 

S&S FOOD AND WINE SHOP GARY INDIANA, 2016,

archival digital print,  21" x 28"

Price upon request

 

 

 

STANDARD STATION CLEVELAND, 2016

archival digital print,  21" x 28"

Price upon request

 

 

 

STREET PARKING QUEENS NEW YORK, 2016

archival digital print,  21" x 28"

Price upon request

 

 

 

TRIANGLE HOUSE OAK PARK ILLINOIS, 2016

archival digital print,  21" x 28"

Price upon request

 

 

 

VARSITY RESTAURANT ATLANTA, 2016

archival digital print,  21" x 28"

Price upon request

 

 

 

HARLEM LOCKS, 2016

archival digital print,  21" x 28"

Price upon request

 

 

 

 

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