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Rebecca Johnson
"Barnwood" unique bronze sculpture

2020

About the Item

Unique bronze casting of the front of a barn the artist carved from a single plank she found in the remnants of a shed in the Mendocino Headlands, California. "[This area] was once called Portuguese Flats," Rebecca Johnson explains. "It was the poor fishermen's homes, now prime real estate. The shed was a shack built about 1900." More than a century of rains and coastal weather had consumed most of the plank that was hewn from an ancient redwood tree, one of the most resilient trees in existence. Now captured in bronze, this natural process of transformation endures through the hands of the artist. Rebecca Johnson grew up in an art-centric family in rural Hopewell, New Jersey. Her parents were designers, artists, and art educators and "Life is Art" was the family credo. This philosophy enriched and continues to inform Johnson's art and career. She received her BFA from Tyler School of Art and her MFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. She studied bronze casting at the Johnson Atelier in New Jersey and stone carving in quarries in Vermont. Grants, fellowships, shows in galleries and museums, commissions, critical acclaim, and teaching positions at Dartmouth and Kenyon Colleges distinguished her career.  Johnson now lives and works in Mendocino County in Northern California, a place of raw elemental forces. She creates paintings inside a large renovated barn at her studio in the Anderson Valley. The doors of the studio open to a hillside meadow filled with her stone sculpture. The calm beauty of this rural place resonates from her work.
  • Creator:
    Rebecca Johnson (1958, American)
  • Creation Year:
    2020
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 27 in (68.58 cm)Width: 26 in (66.04 cm)Depth: 6 in (15.24 cm)
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  • Gallery Location:
    Glen Ellen, CA
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU71211513872
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