RECENTLY IN AMERICA
Vincent Johnson
March 1 - April 30, 2017
PRESS RELEASE
RECENTLY IN AMERICA is the first solo exhibition for Los Angeles based artist, Vincent Johnson at Another Year in LA online gallery. In a recent statement about his work, Johnson wrote, “My base is Los Angeles, which has an exceptional amount of interesting architectural artifacts from the First World War period onwards. Many portions of the Los Angeles that I depict come into existence when New York was attempting to wrest the thorn crown of painting from Paris and succeeded. In the course of producing my photographic archive, I have employed strategies of production such as those used by the flaneur and the derive, in day and at night, by car and on foot, primarily in a stark and challenging urban territory, the AntiCity that is Los Angeles. Similarly, I have also allowed myself to merely wander through this world as the American artist that I am, and fall into pictures and spaces that call for documentation.
It is my experience that driving a car in Los Angeles and seeing the world through its windows is a complex realtime cinematic event. There is a temporary encounter and an enduring intimacy through memory via the photographed subject – this produces the photograph, as versus a sustained relationship with a single but everchanging street scene. Through auto travel one is given the privileged observer position of moving through the world as a realtime unedited film, a cinemastate; to take a number of photographs of it afterwards. Often, when I drive I look about and “remember” key images, photographs..
archival digital print, 21" x 28"
archival digital print, 21" x 28"
archival digital print, 21" x 28"
archival digital print, 21" x 28"
archival digital print, 21" x 28"
archival digital print, 12" x 16"
archival digital print, 12" x 16"
archival digital print, 12" x 16"
archival digital print, 21" x 28"
archival digital print, 21" x 28"
archival digital print, 21" x 28"
archival digital print, 21" x 28"
archival digital print, 21" x 28"
archival digital print, 21" x 28"
archival digital print, 21" x 28"
archival digital print, 21" x 28"
archival digital print, 21" x 28"
archival digital print, 21" x 28"
archival digital print, 21" x 28"
archival digital print, 21" x 28"
archival digital print, 21" x 28"