Victoria Johnson, Color Narratives @ Lisa Harris Gallery March 5 - 29, 2015

Victoria Johnson
Super Natural
Oil Paint, Dry Pigment dispersed in Alkyd on Panel
48" L x 37" H
2015

Victoria Johnson
280
Oil Paint, Dry Pigment dispersed in Alkyd on Panel
48" L x 37"H
2015

Fall 2015 Residency @ Vermont Studio Center

I'm attending an October 25, 2015 residency at Vermont Studio Center. The Vermont Studio Center is the largest international artists' and writers' Residency Program in the United States and I'm thrilled to be accepted by the center. Now to keep a stealthy eye out for that perfect warm sweater!


www. www.vermontstudiocenter.org/

In my former top floor studio at 619 Western Avenue, Seattle

I've not posted for a while. I'm busy with my 3/2015 show in Seattle for the Lisa Harris Gallery.  I've experienced many changes since I last showed and I'm anxious and excited as I work. I've also updated my website to a new format: www.victoriajohnson.net. Today, I found this image of myself in my Seattle studio I leased for 18 years. The photo is precious to me, since its about a time gone: You don't know what you've got till its gone - Joni Mitchell- Big Yellow Taxi.

Photo: Drake Deknatel 2007

They paved paradise and put up a parking lot,
With a pink hotel, a boutique,
And a swinging hot spot.
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got till it's gone?
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.They took all the trees and put them in a tree museum.
And they charged all the people
A dollar and a half just to see 'em.
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got till it's gone?
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.
Hey, farmer, farmer, put away that D.D.T., now!
Give me spots on my apples
But leave me the birds and the bees, please!
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got till it's gone?
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.
Late last night I heard the screen door slam.
And a big yellow taxi took away my old man.
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got till it's gone?
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.

          © 1966-69 Siquomb Publishing Co. BMI


Victoria XOXOX

Color, Composition and Content

Color, Composition and Content

This is a thoughtful installation of paintings seen with the work of Karen Kosoglad at Alijoya Thorton Place in Seattle curated by June Sekiguchi courtesy of Lisa Harris Gallery.

View the exhibition daily from 8:00am - 6:00pm at 450 NE 100th in Seattle through 

June 3rd, 2014

Victoria Johnson
Red Wine Sea
36" x 24"
Oil on Canvas

Boston Consulting Group

       
An installation of a new painting titled, "Color Codes", commissioned by Boston Consulting Group, Seattle. Lisa Harris Gallery managed the acquistion for the client who specified a palette of saturated and bright colors for their lobby artwork.

Victoria Johnson
Commissioned Painting for Boston Consulting Group, Seattle
120" x 22"
Alkyd on Panel
2014
(Collection of Boston Consulting Group, Seattle)

                                                     

Victoria Johnson
Color Curve
48" x 24 "
(collection of Boston Consulting Group, Seattle)

Victoria Johnson
Passion Play
48" x 24"
(Collection of Boston Consulting Group, Seattle)

The Interior Design of Gary Henderson

I received an invitation from designer Gary Henderson, and his long term partner in life turned business partner, Tony Fields, to join a small gathering in their Capitol Hill home.  Gary invited a few people from the design industry to welcome the return of his friend Jan Fisher who is visiting from Australia. Gary is a truly gifted designer. Everything he touches becomes elegant, restrained,  paired down, immaculate, tailored and detailed with materials sourced from things natural. He is one of the most generous people I know, whose dry wit will have you rolling with laughter in short order. I'm grateful for my special and longstanding friendship with both Gary and Tony.

From his website: Gary began his career working with internationally recognized trendsetter - interior designer Tonny Foy in his Fort Worth Studio.  He was greatly influenced by the frequent visitors to the Foy Studio including Benjamin Baldwin, Ward Bennett and Joe D'Urso.  This was followed by extensive corporate design work with the national interior design firms of Richmond Marsh Manoff and Griswold Heckell and Kelly.  Later relocating to Seattle, he joined Callison Architects. 

http://hendersonkelly.net/

Facing East Restaurant, Bellevue, WA
 Interior Design - Henderson Kelly
Artwork - Victoria Johnson

100 Watt Smile - The Series

Moderismism's development in American design in the middle years of the 50's through the early 60's inspired this development in my studio. I'm captivated withfurniture designed for spaces then, intended to function as graphic design elements in the space of modern homes and offices. Creative, open and spatial living was cool, and everyone wanted it. Then ommerical print artists and directors shaped media with Look and LIFE Magazine a standard fixture on occassional tables and stands. I wanted live the sleek fashion and foppy hats worn by cognoscenti in these photographs lounging in perfect homes, drinking perfect ice tea and cocktails, always with party favors. However, it's the music of this period that shaped my childhood. More than anything, the spirit of this American phenomenon for myself and a great many others was music and the the birth of cool. Think spirals with flat lines paired with an cocktail party complete with bacon wrap-arounds, Lobster Newburg spread, deviled ham with cheese dip and Chex Mix.

Sunset in the Jade Sea
36"H x 24"W
Oil on Panel

Joy Delight
36" H X 24" W
Oil on Panel

100 Watt Smile
36" x 24" W
Oil on Panel