Scott Johnson Artist Talk Highlights

Posted on August 15, 2012January 23, 2020

Artist Scott Johnson in his The No Plateau

Below are excerpts from our live Twitter feed of the Members-only Preview of the Scott Johnson and James Turrell exhibitions. Local artist Johnson joined Museum Director and Curator Blake Milteer for an audience discussion about the vision, process and inspiration behind Johnson’s site-specific, multi-sensory exhibition.

If you’re unable to join our Members Only previews, we are still happy to field questions from the Twitter community; make sure to use the exhibition-related hashtags. Join the conversation, and the experience!

“what’s most important is you experience this IN TIME, as your body moves through the gallery” #GoExperienceIt

This art feels contemporary but Johnson’s use of one-pt perspective harkens back to Renaissance #GoExperienceIt

Johnson tries to problematize the limits of perspective in traditional modes of visual representation #ScottJohnson #GoExperienceIt

Creativity = listening process #ScottJohnson #GoExperienceIt

#ScottJohnson constructed directly on site of FAC museum, pieces are very calculated and site specific to the space #GoExperienceIt

“way of thinking non-verbally & in a non-linear fashion. U end up w/ results U don’t expect” #GoExperienceIt #ScottJohnson

“Favorite piece in the show is the thin copper wire pieces pinned directly on the space” #ScottJohnson #GoExperienceIt

“a lot of this is about framing experience. It’s very much about the artifice that ALLOWS us to see it” #ScottJohnson #GoExperienceIt

“this is 1 of the most BEAUTIFUL things we’ve done hre. It unfolds 4 U ovr a period of time, so we hope U come back again” #GoExperienceIt

Q: can u evolve the exhibition over time? A: I might add, edit, alter the Alluvium Room,#GoExperienceIt #ScottJohnson

Beeswax sculpture = “nonverbal aromatic experience” – like going to a homemade dinner at a friends house #ScottJohnson #GoExperienceIt

“not just abt the optical experience in terms of perception but the other senses too” #ScottJohnson #GoExperienceIt

Johnson’s carbonized trees harkens back to #waldocanyonfire “aesthetic exp that has to do with reality” #GoExperienceIt

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Fire, first technology we domesticated. Carbonized trees relate to this idea, playing w/idea for +7yrs #ScottJohnson #GoExperienceIt

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“this work is about the inadequacy of words, and hopefully leads to discourse” #GoExperienceIt #ScottJohnson

“these pieces come from direct perceptual experience in the landscape” think open ocean, whiteouts, snowdrifts #GoExperienceIt

“Special thanks to security guards for letting me in & out at all hours while working on this exhibit” #ScottJohnson #GoExperienceIt

“landscape is one of the first things that moved me with Scott’s work. I’d never seen this elemental quality before” #GoExperienceIt

Weekend film suggestion from #ScottJohnson: Fata Morgana #GoExperienceIt

Art has the ability to change the way we see the world; visually, physically, chemically, spirituality #GoExperienceIt

“perhaps this is a suggestion of what art can, and will be” -Blake #GoExperienceIt

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“playing upon visual representation history in the west” which is why Fata Morgana is on the wall– flat yet sculptural 3D #GoExperienceIt