Delanie Johnson

Architecture, perspective, and color play important roles in my work. Light and shadow consume our environment, creating abstract compositions around us. I am interested in exploring these compositions and discovering how these things combine in new ways that stop making visual sense. I investigate and hyper-fixate on how organic shapes and light interact with a structure. I deeply observe these moments that I glimpse on a day-to-day basis, rather than curating an encounter. This deep observation begins to border on the absurd, as I repeatedly fixate on small everyday moments. The repetition of these everyday moments becomes a link to memory, a nostalgia for places and times repeated and lost again and again.

In paintings ranging from mid-size to large, I play with scale and specific compositional crops to eliminate sections of reality, confusing visual perception. Color plays a significant role in my work. Untraditional color palettes allow me to balance both detailed worlds of light, shadow, and reflection, with the monochromatic flatness of structure and form. I utilize repetition and reflection to add to the illusion with my compositions. Collaging and layering different media enhances and complicates visual relationships. There is a sense of confrontation in the work between perception and memory, as we grapple with everyday unfamiliarity.