Patricia Johanson

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Patricia Johanson (2005)

Patricia Maureen Johanson (born September 8, 1940 in New York , NY ) is an American landscape architect , environment and concept artist, painter and sculptor. She created her early works in the style of minimalism .

Life

She is the daughter of Elvar Einar Johanson and Elizabeth, b. Deane. In 1958 she attended the Brooklyn Museum Art School. She then studied at Bennington College , where the sculptor Tony Smith was one of her college professors. At the time she was a member of the Art Students League of New York . In 1962 she graduated with a bachelor's degree. She received her Masters two years later from Hunter College . There she was a student of Smith, Paul Terence Feeley, Ad Reinhardt and art critic Eugene Goossen (1920–1997). She later married Gossen and the marriage had three sons.

Johanson worked for the American magazine House & Garden , for which she designed 150 garden designs (1969). She then developed an interest in landscape architecture and land art .

In 1971 Johanson began further studies at the City College School of Architecture, which she completed in 1977 with a Bachelor of Architecture (B. Arch.). She was financially supported by the National Endowment for the Arts Grant (1975) and two Guggenheim grants (1970 and 1980).

She lives in Buskirk , a hamlet in Rensselaer County .

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Johanson began creating works of art that can be attributed to minimalism in the 1960s . Among other things, she painted large-format constructions made of wood, steel and other materials. Later she turned to Land Art , with the aim of creating not only the artistic aspect, but also ecological improvements (creation of habitats for animals and plants from previously polluted areas) and new recreational spaces (parks, gardens) for people. First she created drawings in which she recorded her ideas for such projects. In doing so, she often gave the topographical objects the outline of living beings.

One of the most important projects she has completed is Leonhardt Lagoon (1981–1986) in Fair Park, a recreational and educational complex in Dallas . She worked with the Dallas Museum of Natural History. She converted a previously severely damaged body of water into a biocenosis through planting on the banks and made it accessible to visitors through two large, sculptural paths made of shotcrete that are shaped like native plant species. Another major project Johanson worked on for around a decade was the Petaluma Wetlands Park and Ellis Creek Water Recycling Facility . Together with a team of engineers, she designed a new wastewater treatment plant for the Californian city of Petaluma . She gave the ponds, which serve as habitats for birds and plants, the shape of an endangered harvest mouse ( Reithrodontomys raviventris ).

Johanson's work often references works by the late painter Georgia O'Keeffe , who was her mentor, e. B. by the representation of bones and skulls. However, the way the two artists deal with the subject of nature differs greatly from one another. In 2017, as part of its “Artist's Eye” series, the Brooklyn Museum showed Johanson's artistic reaction to the Georgia O'Keeffe: Living Modern exhibition in the form of pictures, sculptures, photographs and clothing.

Johanson's works can be found in the collections of the Dallas Museum of Art , Metropolitan Museum of Art , Museum of Modern Art , Storm King Art Center in Mountainville, New York, Allen Memorial Art Museum in Oberlin and the National Museum of Women in the Arts .

Works and projects (selection)
Ellis Creek Water Treatment Facility in Petaluma
  • William Rush (painted T-beams), steel, 1966
  • William Clark (oil painting), 1967
  • Stephen Long (painted plywood strips on railroad track in Buskirk , New York), 487 m, 1968
  • Turtle Mound (project drawing), 1969
  • Cyrus Field (line labyrinth), marble, cement and redwood, 1970–1971, Buskirk
  • Gila Monster - Shadow House - Translation of Pattern to Hypothetical Facade , ink, charcoal and Conté crayon on vellum paper, 77 × 152.3 cm, 1978, Museum of Modern Art
  • Cyrus Field (footbridge through the forest near Buskirk), marble, concrete and wood, 1970
  • Nostoc II (sculpture, 148 boulders arranged on circular paths, shape based on the molecular structure of Nostoc algae), 1975, on 350 square meters of forest area of ​​the Storm King Art Center in Mountainville, New York
  • Study for “Flower Fountain” (project drawing), ink and charcoal on vellum paper , 91.4 × 129.5 cm, 1980, Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • (Maquette for) "Flower Fountain" ( Maquette ), stoneware and fiberglass , 127 × 81.3 × 17.8 cm, 1980, Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • Tidal Color Gardens (project drawing), 1981–1982
  • Leonhardt Lagoon , Fair Park, Dallas, 1981-1986
  • Endangered Garden , Sunnydale Facilities, Candlestick Cove, San Francisco, 1987-1997
  • Park for the Amazon Rainforest , Obidos , 1992
  • Nairobi River Park , Nairobi , 1995
  • Ulsan Grand Park , Ulsan , 1996
  • Ribbon Worm Tidal Steps , San Francisco Bay , 1997
  • Petaluma Wetlands Park, Ellis Creek Water Recycling Facility , Petaluma , 2001-2009
  • Sugar House Pedestrian Crossing , Salt Lake City , from 2003

Exhibitions (selection)

Solo exhibitions

  • 1967: Patricia Johanson: Paintings , Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York
  • 1982: Patricia Johanson: A Project for the Fair Park Lagoon , Dallas Museum of Fine Arts
  • 1987: Patricia Johanson: Drawings and Models for Environmental Projects, 1969–1986 , Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield
  • 1991: Patricia Johanson: Public Landscapes , Painted Bride Art Center, Philadelphia
  • 2001: Patricia Johanson: An Artist's Vision for Community , Salina Art Center, Salina

Group exhibitions

  • 1968: The Art of the Real , Museum of Modern Art , New York and Grand Palais , Paris (traveling exhibition, with catalog)
  • 1979: Gifts of Drawing , Museum of Modern Art, New York
  • 1992: Fragile Ecologies: Artists Interpretations and Solutions , Queens Museum of Art , New York (traveling exhibition, with catalog)
  • 2004: Minimal Future? Art as Object: 1958–1968 , Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
  • 2012: Ends of the Earth: Land Art to 1974 , Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and Haus der Kunst , Munich (with catalog).
  • 2012: Green Acres: Artists Farming Fields, Greenhouses and Abandoned Lots , Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati , Ohio; also in 2013 at the Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, Virginia and American University Museum, Washington, DC
  • 2013: My Brain Is in My Inkstand: Drawing as Thinking and Process. Cranbrook Art Museum , Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
  • 2014: Beyond Earth Art , Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca

Awards

  • 1976: United Nations International Women's Year Award
  • 1979: Gold medal, Accademia di belle arti (ABA), Parma
  • 1995: Honorary Doctorate from Massachusetts College of Art, Boston
  • 2003: Arts and Healing Network Award

literature

  • Caffyn Kelley: Art and Survival: Patricia Johanson's Environmental Projects. Gulf Islands Institute, USA 2006, ISBN 0-9738332-0-3 .
  • Xin Wu: Patricia Johanson's House & Garden Commission: Reconstruction of Modernity. With a Preface by Stephen Bann. Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection and Spacemaker Press, Washington 2007, ISBN 978-0-88402-334-0 .
  • Xin Wu: Patricia Johanson and the Re-Invention of Public Environmental Art, 1958-2010. Routledge, London 2017, ISBN 978-1-351-55491-6 .
  • Catrin Ritter: Johanson, Patricia . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 78, de Gruyter, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-11-023183-0 , p. 161.
  • Johanson, Patricia In: Joan M. Marter (Ed.): The Grove Encyclopedia of American Art. Volume 1, Oxford University Press, New York 2011, ISBN 978-0-19-533579-8 , pp. 639-640.

Web links

Commons : Patricia Johanson  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Catrin Ritter: Johanson, Patricia . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 78, de Gruyter, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-11-023183-0 , p. 161.
  2. ^ Johanson, Patricia Maureen. In: Who's who in the east. Marquis Who's Who, Chicago 1983.
  3. ↑ Patricia Johanson gf.org. Retrieved November 13, 2018.
  4. ^ Johanson, Patricia In: Joan M. Marter (ed.) The Grove Encyclopedia of American Art. Volume 1, Oxford University Press, New York 2011, p. 640.
  5. ↑ Xin Wu: Patricia Johanson and the Re-Invention of Public Environmental Art, 1958-2010. Routledge, London 2017, p. 65.
  6. ↑ Artist's Eye: Patricia Johanson on Georgia O'Keeffe. brooklynmuseum.org. Retrieved November 14, 2018.
  7. ↑ Patricia Johanson moma.org. Retrieved November 14, 2018.
  8. ↑ Patricia Johanson stormking.org. Retrieved November 14, 2018.
  9. ↑ a b Study for "Flower Fountain" metmuseum.org. Retrieved November 14, 2018.
  10. ↑ A Minimal Future? Art as Object 1958-1968. moca.org. Retrieved November 13, 2018.
  11. ↑ GREEN ACRES Exhibition: June 29 - October 13, 2013 arlingtonartscenter.org. Retrieved November 13, 2018.
  12. ^ My Brain Is in My Inkstand: Drawing as Thinking and Process. cranbrookartmuseum.org. Retrieved November 13, 2018.
  13. ↑ Beyond Earth Art museum.cornell.edu. Retrieved November 13, 2018.
  14. ↑ 2003 Ahn Award Winner: Patricia Johanson ( Memento from June 8, 2009 on WebCite )
personal data
SURNAME Johanson, Patricia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Johanson, Patricia Maureen (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American landscape architect, painter, sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH September 8, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH New York , NY