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Artist Exhibitions:
Minumental Exhibition - NHIA,
Manchester NH
Featured Artist - Dos Amigos,
Portsmouth NH
DOOM - ellO Gallery,
Portsmouth NH
Artists of the Seacoast -
Children's Museum, Portsmouth
NH
Re:Format - ellO Gallery,
Portsmouth NH
Good Luck/Bad Luck - ellO
Gallery, Portsmouth NH
Art in Nature - Seacoast
Science Center, Rye NH
Seacoast Redefined - ellO ...
Further Information
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Artist Galleries:
ellO gallery - 110 state
street, Portsmouth NH
www.ellogallery.com
www.ellogallery.com/ello-artist
s/sylvea-johnson/sylvea-johnson
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Further Information
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Artist Reviews:
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Collections:
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Commissions:
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Artist Statement for Sylvea Johnson
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I have always been compelled to create things for others to look at and think about, but my art is created mostly for my own entertainment. It is not only the creation of it I love, but the hours of introspection and inspiration they provide me as I live with them. When I feel like I've gotten everything out of the painting, it is complete and I can let it go.
My whole process is meditative. I create depth and drama using neo-psychedelic colors and shapes that I build up in layers. I am particularly interested in promoting apophenia (the experience of seeing patterns or connections in random or meaningless data) and pareidolia (which is our condition to see faces, objects, animals and scenes in forms such as clouds or inkblots). I often combine the interlocking organic shapes with suggested figurative drawing, linear doodles and hue gradations. By removing a conscious identity from the artwork, I encourage the viewer to examine their own psyche as they come up with possible interpretations. Lyrical, poetic, graphic, symbolic, ethereal, non-objective... ?
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