Cheryl Johnson reveals the boundless possibilities of painting, driven by her passion for layers and aided by a gestural mark-making style that truly sets her work apart. The artist's energetic canvases undergo an alchemical transformation as a result of her transparent glazes adding veiled colors as well as the uncontrollably organic interactions between the oil and resin she often chooses to pour a propriety mixture she has refined through years of experimentation directly onto the canvas surface.
Cheryl starts by pouring this unique oil paint and medium combination over her substrate, allowing the colors to pool, splash, and stretch. She then rearranges her supports and adds more layers of paint, further altering her surfaces with brushes, rags, her hands or squeegee tools, in a method that is simultaneously revelatory and intuitive.
United States
Mixed Media Painting on Canvas
Size: 36H x 48 W x 0.75 in
Ships in a cardboard box
$1,620
United States
Mixed Media Painting on Canvas
Size: 36 H x 48 W x 0.75 in
Ships in a box
$1,670
United States
Acrylic Painting on Canvas
Size: 24 H x 18 W x 1.5 in
Ships in a cardboard box
$810Add to Cart
— Cheryl Johnson
24"x24" Mixed Media/Oil on substrate of foam board.
$710
United States
Painting
Size: 24 H x 24 W x 0.8 in
Ships in a cardboard box
United States
Oil Painting on Canvas
Size: 40 H x 30 W x 1.5 in
Ships in a cardboard box
$1,870Add to Cart
— Cheryl Johnson
MIXED MEDIA Drip Series
— Cheryl Johnson
PROJECT BY CHERYL JOHNSON
See No Evil is a watercolor painting of three faces, see, hear, speak. I have always been fond of the tale of the three wise monkeys. Three wise monkeys. ... The three monkeys are Mizaru, covering his eyes, who sees no evil; Kikazaru, covering his ears, who hears no evil; and Iwazaru, covering his mouth, who speaks no evil. This inspired me. Perhaps my next piece will be the fourth axiom. Sometimes there is a fourth monkey depicted, Shizaru, who symbolizes the principle of "do no evil".
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“I’m interested in a painting practice being a, shifting, unnamable thing guided by your emotions and passion to create.
—Cheryl Johnson