NYAB Event - Ezra Johnson "Five Points of Light"

Ezra Johnson "Five Points of Light"

Freight and Volume

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In our video room Freight and Volume presents the new animation Five Points of Light by Ezra Johnson. Like den Breejen, Johnson relies much on the power of intuition in his organic, humorous and lo-tech painterly videos. He writes,

I make it my goal to be intuitive and to let the work guide me. In my animations one of my main explorations is space, I am interested in the idea of space being changeable, or that the world of my videos doesn’t need to be logical. I want to plow through space in a physical way, pushing forward into it with tactile energy. I want to go mucking from side to side with gooey, soupy paint or chunks of cut paper and objects. I like to make it physical so the viewer can feel it in a visceral way—not slick or heavily produced.

Five Points of Light is a recent work by an artist who received his BFA from the California College of Arts and Crafts, and his MFA from Hunter College. He is the recipient of two residencies, the Marie Walsh Sharpe and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and has had solo shows at the UCLA Hammer, the DIA NYC, and the New Galerie in Paris. Johnson currently divides his time between New York and London.

[Image: Ezra Johnson "still from Five Points of Light" running time: 00:05:00]