Gallery installation, "Intersect" featuring Iskra Johnson, August 2 - 27, 2023
Iskra Johnson
My newest work is completely abstract, rooted in my career as a calligrapher and studies with masters of Asian painting. Working on vintage rice papers and other surfaces I create calligraphic gestures influenced by musical rhythms and memory of place. I then immerse the pages of marks in a process of digital alchemy, what I think of as an acid bath, to become something both closer and farther from conscious thought. I work improvisationally, looking always for an unexpected departure. For years as a calligrapher my job was to create legible words. I am interested now in language before translation.
These new abstract prints are signed and produced as editions of one, or in small limited editions of 3 to 5. They are printed on rag paper with archival inks rated for 150 years or more. A number of industrial landscapes and botanicals blending painting and photography are also available through SAM Gallery
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Koyasan, mixed media archival pigment print, 30 x 30 in.
The Pearl Divers, mixed media archival pigment print, 42 x 32 in.
The Messenger, mixed media archival pigment print, 28 x 28 in.
Waterfall, mixed media archival pigment print, 42 x 32 in.
Blue Poppies Redon, mixed media archival pigment print, 24 x 23 in.
Water Kimono 3/35, archival pigment print, 23.5 x 27.5 in.
El Lobo Grande, archival pigment print, 31 x 55 in.
The Other Side, archival pigment print, 42 x 32 in.
A Quieter Room , mixed media archival pigment print, 42 x 32 in.
Processional , mixed media archival pigment print, 30 x 30 in.
Basho's Garden, mixed media archival pigment print, 24 x 24 in.
Neah Bay Sunset Hour, mixed media archival pigment print, 15 x 15 in.
Anemone in the Field, archival pigment print, 27 x 22 in.
Tar Study, archival pigment print, 28 x 28 in.
Lake Powell Elegy 1/5, archival pigment print, 35 x 35 in.
Mill Warehouse, archival pigment print, 42 x 32 in.