Carla Rae Johnson

Carla Rae Johnson, PTSD Week 59, 2017, Graphite on bristol board, Political

2017

Carla Rae Johnson’s work includes drawing, sculpture, conceptual, performance and installation art. She is a 1990 recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant. Her sculpture has been exhibited in the solo, invitational and curated shows in museums and galleries nationally as well as in New York City and is included in numerous public and private collections. Works by Carla Rae Johnson have been reviewed in The New York Times, The Village Voice, the New Haven Register, The Journal News and the Times Herald-Record. Solo exhibitions of Ms. Johnson’s work in New York City include those at Ceres, SOHO20 Galleries and The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts. Her work has been featured in museum exhibitions at the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, The Loveland Museum, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, The Queens Museum of Art Gallery at Paine Webber, The National Museum of Women in the Arts, The Heckscher Museum of Art, The Mead Art Museum, The Brooklyn Museum of Art, The Mississippi Museum of Art and The Meridian Museum of Art. Carla Rae Johnson’s list of selected shows includes exhibitions at Maxwell Fine Arts, Castle Gallery, Artspace, Windows on Greene Street, AIR Gallery, Festival Theatre, Hillwood Art Gallery and The Yale University Art Gallery. In 2002, Carla Rae Johnson was commissioned to design a Cultural Tourism Center for Arts Westchester at the Arts Exchange Building in White Plains, NY. Ms. Johnson’s selected bibliography includes The Aesthetics of Art: Understanding What We See by Liza Renia Papi, published by Cognella, Inc., Made in the U.S.A.: Modern/Contemporary Art in America by Judy Collischan, Abstracts CAA New York City College Art Association Conference in 2003, Who’s Who in American Art since 1992; Lines of Vision: Drawings by Contemporary Women by Judy Collischan and Van Wagner, Editor in 1989, Language as Object: Emily Dickinson and Contemporary Art by Susan Danly, Editor in 1997; A Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes, 2nd Edition by Richard Kostelanetz in 2000 and Double Vision: Contemporary Artists Look at the Poetry of Emily Dickinson by Maryanne M. Garbowsky in 2002. In addition to this, Carla Rae Johnson co-authored a textbook on drawing called Draw! with Professor Laurie Steinhorst at Westchester Community College in Valhalla. Directly connected to ideas, Carla Rae Johnson’s art often addresses issues of social, political and cultural import. She finds the most challenging forms and concepts at the intersection of the visual and the verbal and delights in communicating insights with humor, word-play and not just a little irony. She also enjoys working collaboratively with artists and peers. Johnson is a 2005 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow in Sculpture and is a 2017 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Drawing.