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Anne Johnstone"The One in Front, The One Behind", Abstract, Red, Blue, Brown, Acrylic Painting2024
2024
$1,350
£1,029.58
€1,186.35
CA$1,928.44
A$2,120.10
CHF 1,095.91
MX$25,368.36
NOK 13,835.65
SEK 12,971.31
DKK 8,860.31
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Anne Johnstone’s "The One in Front, The One Behind" 20 x 16 x 1.5 inch abstract painting captivates with bold colors and geometric forms rendered through textured brush strokes that create sculptural dimensionality. A central circular focal point displays a checkerboard pattern of red, orange, blue, black, and purple squares, reminiscent of traditional mosaics symbolizing unity within complexity. Surrounding fragmented shapes suggest human features—arms and legs—formed through overlapping color planes in green, brown, and pink against a dusty pink background.
The artwork blends abstraction with figuration, challenging viewers to reconsider identity and perception beyond realistic representation. The checkerboard pattern metaphorically represents multiplicity and diversity within the human condition, while visible brushwork emphasizes emotional immediacy and expressiveness. The painting is done on cradled board, the sides are unpainted with the signature on the back.
Anne Johnstone‘s subject matter is her interior world. Her paintings and drawings are color dense and emotionally charged images about her inner life, everything from personal struggles to physical awareness to the world around her. Using acrylics and canvas collage on her paintings, she creates tightly knit compositions that vibrate with stilled energy. In her oil pastels, layered color takes on hard-to-define hues, while shapes bulge, defining space with both humor and determination. Her drawings combine crayon and gouache with pencil to create psychological dramas. Her style is most akin to abstract expressionism, with bold brush strokes which scribble and drip and declare themselves here for the action. She often uses a glazing medium to enhance the transparency of her colors, making visible the history of color application. “I am drawn to imbalance and asymmetry in my work. I seek to bring attention to those qualities while creating solid compositions.”
- Creator:Anne Johnstone (1957, American)
- Creation Year:2024
- Dimensions:Height: 20 in (50.8 cm)Width: 16 in (40.64 cm)Depth: 1.5 in (3.81 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Franklin, MA
- Reference Number:Seller: Johnstone_The One in Front, The One Behind1stDibs: LU500316840702
Anne Johnstone
Anne Johnstone‘s subject matter is her interior world. Her paintings and drawings are color dense and emotionally charged images about her inner life, everything from personal struggles to physical awareness to the world around her. Using acrylics and canvas collage on her paintings, she creates tightly knit compositions that vibrate with stilled energy. In her oil pastels, layered color takes on hard-to-define hues, while shapes bulge, defining space with both humor and determination. Her drawings combine crayon and gouache with pencil to create psychological dramas. Her style is most akin to abstract expressionism, with bold brush strokes which scribble and drip and declare themselves here for the action. She often uses a glazing medium to enhance the transparency of her colors, making visible the history of color application. “I am drawn to imbalance and asymmetry in my work. I seek to bring attention to those qualities while creating solid compositions.”
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