Jay Mark Johnson

Jay Mark Johnson Elena Fluttering Backwards, Cetona, Italia 2007

2007

Jay Mark Johnson Taichi Motion Studios Los Angeles, 2006 Durst Lambda print, film, aluminum 40” x 106” Edition 3/3 $32,500

Jay Mark Johnson Swept Away #1 Belgrade, Serbia, 2008 Durst Lambda print, film, aluminum 40” x 96” Edition 2/3 $28,500

This large format, color-photograph belongs to Jay Mark Johnson's wave series - the images from which depict the rhythmic cycling and recycling of oceanfront waves as recorded on remote coastlines around the world--in Hawaii, Florida, California, the Caribbean, Great Britain, Australia and South Africa. These artworks belong to the artist’s ongoing inquiry into the possibilities for timeline photography. For this decades-long project Johnson employs an unconventional camera system to produce seamless delineated renderings of familiar events as they occur over time. The results present an altered view of our surroundings. Artworks from Johnson’s timeline series have been exhibited extensively throughout the U.S. and Europe. They can be found in the permanent collections of the Bundestag (German Parliament) in Berlin, the Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie at Karlsruhe, the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, the Phoenix Art Museum, the Langen Foundation, Hombroich, Germany, the Peter Klein...

Jay Mark Johnson Eva Kein Auto Hamburg, Germany, 2008 Durst Lambda print, film, aluminum 40” x 105” Edition 2/3 $28,500

Is a project that debates through the photographic image, the importance that humans have assigned to ourselves, and proposes a reconciliation with the reality of our own insignifica...

Is a project that debates through the photographic image, the importance that humans have assigned to ourselves, and proposes a reconciliation with the reality of our own insignifica...

Digital C-Type print on Kodak Endura photo paper Edition of 6 + 2 AP

Light painting technique, realized in a completly dark photographic studio, where the photographer manually "paint" by torch with light of different colours, the subjects and the ba...