Jan Johnson "I did not provide the cup"
A.I.R. Gallery
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Jan Johnson's work simultaneously embraces and rejects the image of the domestic. Growing up in the South, Jan shares a deep tradition of women's domestic activities-quilting, embroidery, samplers and quilling. She learned to "make do" with what one has at home, efficiently and effectively. Her interests lie in the appropriation and subversion of these handiwork techniques. These methods of homespun production were passed down from generation to generation; the crafting of cloths, handkerchiefs and quilled paper forms were gifted to Jan. She thus retains a certain notion of duty to what she has been provided. Johnson uses forms and techniques that are at once familiar and foreign, a language laid down with thread, paint, pigment and cut paper. The diagrammatic structures attempt to order her imagination, anxieties, and fears, and chart the trodden areas of love, beauty, desire and death.
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Schedule
from November 02, 2011 to November 26, 2011
Opening Reception on 2011-11-03 from 18:00 to 21:00