Steve Johnson (artist)

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Steve Johnson (* 1953 in Whitstable , England ) is an English sculptor and draftsman .

Life

Steve Johnson studied art from 1974 to 1977 at Bath Lane College of Arts & Technology in Newcastle-upon-Tyne and at Goldsmiths College, University of London ; there he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts . From 1981 to 1982 he studied design at the Chelsea College of Art and Design in London and obtained a Master of Arts . During his studies he received numerous prizes and grants. From 1996 to 2001 he took part in artist-in-residence programs and guest lectures in England, Switzerland and Berlin . Johnson lives and works in London and teaches at the University of the Arts, London .

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Architecture has been at the center of Steve Johnson's sculptural work since 1998 . By recreating real buildings in miniature as detailed architectural models and hanging them high on the walls of the exhibition rooms together with the earth below, he conveys unusual perspectives of perception . As a subject he serves here u. a. Dachas , pubs or traffic islands . Johnson wants to focus on what is actually invisible, in the broader sense the matter on which these architectures are built, the earth. The buildings towering over the mighty chunks of earth are deprived of any haptic or visual approach.

Exhibitions (selection)

Solo exhibitions

  • 2010 Every day's a film with no script , DavisKlemmGallery, Frankfurt
  • 2006 The Architecture of Pleasure , Rudolf-Scharpf-Galerie, Ludwigshafen; Krammig & Pepper Contemporary, Berlin
  • 2005 Architecture of Joy , Ulrike Buschlinger Gallery, Wiesbaden
  • 2004 Earth Works 1998-2004 , Art Track Gallery, Gent
  • 2003 The Street Enters The House , pepperprojects, Berlin
  • 2001 Ulrike Buschlinger Gallery, Wiesbaden; 2yk Gallery, Berlin
  • 2000 Kunsthaus, Dresden; office for art, Dresden
  • 2012 Off the wall (with Peter Weber); DavisKlemmGallery, Frankfurt
  • 2012 Gist Gallery, Amsterdam

Group exhibitions

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personal data
SURNAME Johnson, Steve
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English sculptor and draftsman
DATE OF BIRTH 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Whitstable , England