Eye of Art #7 : Sarah Anne Johnson

A weekly series to share my art discovery with first the work that caught my eye...
This is with the installation Untitled (Schooner and Fireworks) that I discovered the Canadian artist, Sarah Anne Johnson.

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Untitled (Schooner and Fireworks), 2012

This installation is made of a wooden table with a model schooner and above a huge structure like a colorful cloud with fireworks. But when you get closer, you see that this structure is made of plastics. This installation is accompanied by a photo exhibition Explosion Panorama about the Sarah Anne Johnson journey on the schooner The Noorderlicht in North Canada. She realized in this beautiful landscapes, the human presence is everywhere with the garbage transported by the sea (bottle of plastic, bags ...) spoiling the place.

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WHO

Born in 1976, Sarah Anne Johnson is an artist from Winnipeg. She had a BFA from the University of Manitoba and a MFA from the Yale School of Art in New Haven (Connecticut). She does many solo exhibitions, especially in North America, the Ace Art Gallery in Winnipeg (2010), the Southern Alberta Art Gallery (2015), the Contemporary Art Museum of Raleigh in the United States (2015), the MBAM in Montreal (2015) and Gallery 44 in Toronto (2016).

House on Fire, 2009, Mixed Media

Laundry Room (Detail of House on Fire)

Staircase (Detail of House on Fire), Escherian Stairwell

WHAT

“I've always felt a deep frustration with the limitations of photography.” - Sarah Anne Johnson

In photography, Sarah Anne Johnson is interested in showing what is hidden by sticking, modifying, cutting, painting... it's the perfect way to expose the environmental causes like the Galapagos Project ( she volunteered on the Galapagos cutting invasive weeds) or Arctic Wonderland with climate change/global warming.

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