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)

Thinking of Anni Albers

At the beginning, her style was influenced by the bright matching combinations by Stölzl, and later by the abstract and unpredictable compositions by Kandinsky and by the polychromatic semantics by Klee (these people were all teachers of Anni at the Bauhaus); finally, her style became essentially geometrical and rationalist. In her first works for the laboratory of weaving, the elements of the intertwining are not disguised, but instead, the threads and the structure delineate the composition...Anni Albers - Vogue.it

Palm Springs

I went to Palm Springs January 2nd. - great decision. Love the dry heat and exploring Coachella Valley kicking around Palm Springs, but it is the day trips in the valley I enjoyed most. I hiked to an abandoned mining operation in Joshua Tree Park - descending at dusk on the trail, as it were to bathe in amazing pink and purple glow of the sunset. Drove to Saltan Sea - or whats left of it, and found comfortable enough lodging, inexpensive by Palm Springs standards with just the right amount of amenties - the hotel hot tub with no one ever in the pool. A daily visit to Cafe Celio to say hello to locals with coffee then off to the single organic restaurant in Palm Springs - the Palm Green styling hearty breakfasts, lunches and power drinks.  

Creating Waves

Lady of the Lake (Morning Sunrise) 20" H x 80" W, Oil on Panel, 2012 
(Collection of Farinaz Taghavi,Seattle)

Cole & Son wallpaper geometric collection in the mood of the 60's with "Op Art" geometry and exploration of color.

Cubist and Op Art inspired reliefs and prints on glazed over black terracotta ceramics by Astier de Villamette show unexpected color combinations (courtesy of Vogue archives)

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

Otto Youngers at the Hartforth Gallery

The number of talented artists living and working in Washington State's south sound continue to astonish me. One artist I have a specific affinity now is the sculpture of Otto Youngers, who takes wood medium to a special place in an amazing way. His generative monsters seemingly from another world without a destructive bone in their bodies.

Otto Youngers will open a comprehensive show at the Hartforth Gallery in main Tacoma Public Library this Saturday. I'll be there!

Natural History of the Surreal

Sculpture by Otto Younger

August 10 through October 5, 2013

Artist's Reception: 2-4 p.m., Saturday, August 24, 2013

Otto Youngers is a champion of the "maximal", a force that reclaims storytelling, craftsmanship, and the material presence of art in the world of art where "more" really is "more".

http://www.tpl.lib.wa.us/Page.aspx?nid=64

Otto Youngers, Hartforth Gallery, Tacoma Public Library

Otto Youngers, Hartforth Gallery, Tacoma Public Library