Selected!

Quite excited to learn that my painting "Upend" has been selected 
for the Raleigh Fine Arts Society's "2013 North Carolina Artists Exhibition".
Selected works will be on display in the Betty Ray McCain Gallery 
at the Progress Energy Center for the Performing Arts in Raleigh 
from March 10 through May 2, 2013.
The exhibition was juried by the artist Bill Dunlap, 
who is himself featured in the January 2013 issue of Juxtapoz Magazine. 
Thank you Bill!

Upend

Encaustic and alkyd on panel

Updated Website

Thank you to Andre Leon Gray for the new photographs.
Here's the site.

January 2013 at the VAE Exchange Gallery, Raleigh

Here is my tight little group on the wall.
I like the way they converse amongst themselves.
It's time to get more into the discussion!

Top left to right: Saturday Night, Valentin, Short Ride.
Bottom left to right: Upend, Subornament, After Carmelita, Tattoo for Loos
All encaustic and alkyd on wood panel.

December 2012 Studio

After a distracted year of relocating to North Carolina and getting my studio set up again -
this time in my home - in the midst of my day job as an illustrator -
I revisited some work that I had meant to reassess.
Here are the reworked results, ready for the group show in January 2013
at the Visual Art Exchange in Raleigh.
I am pleased with how they turned out as they feel stronger to me, more focused.
I want to do more, do more, do more. Please 2013....!

Valentin, Subornament, Saturday Night all with reworked edges.

Tatoo for Loos and After Carmelita reworked.

Various exploratory prints.

Surfaces and edges

Thinking and wondering today about Brice Marden's earlier wax surfaces.

Then I found this video on the making of his Dylan painting in 1966:

http://www.sfmoma.org/explore/multimedia/videos/269:

(However please note that Marden's use of solvents with hot wax at that time
has been proven to be a dangerous practice and is no longer followed.)

New website launched!

I am very pleased to have finally launched my new website for my painting.
Please check it out and enjoy!

www.celiajohnson.net

VAE Exchange Gallery Selection :: January 2013

Great news!
I have been selected by the Visual Art Exchange of Raleigh, NC
to exhibit in January 2013 as part of their Exchange Gallery program.
Save the date and look for my work in January 2013 at the gallery.
Visual Art Exchange, 309 West Martin Street, Raleigh, NC 27601

Visual Art Exchange website