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"Edo Scroll for Modern Times," edition of 10, available in two sizes, hangs horizontally or vertically. 15.5 x 60" sheet with 11 x 57" image, $1,300 (edition of 10) 12 x 46.3" sheet with 8.5" x 43" image, $950 (edition of 10) Artwork ships in a rolled tube. Also available on canvas or other substrates by special order, cost based on materials and shipping weight. This piece was inspired by a film recently produced by Harvard Art Museums, "Edo Avant Garde," about the Edo period of Japanese art. The film was exquisitely made, transcendent in its blending of the photography of place and the spirit of the Edo, which was perhaps the finest era of Japanese painting and culture. Watching the film transported me back to my years studying with Chinese and Japanese calligraphy masters during my career as a calligrapher. I love the wildly abstract use of space in the Edo period, and the blending in works from that time of unfiltered emotion with an elegant sense of presentation and surface. I create the calligraphy for these pieces with a variety of tools and papers. I put on trance music or jazz, let the ink fly, and go into a not-thinking space. I am a highly trained calligrapher, versed in literally 100's of alphabets and styles. These pieces are an opportunity to turn off all my conscious training and respond purely to the paper and ink in the moment. The abstract purity of this imagery allows for a wide range of presentations. The work can be matted with liners and borders reminiscent of hanging silk scrolls, or printed on canvas or mounted on panel with no border or frame. This piece is a rare one that works as a horizontal narrative or as a vertical totem. If requesting it to hang a particular way please advise in advance, so that the signature is placed for that orientation. Signature on these limited editions is usually placed directly below the image, in light pencil, but can be placed at the edge of the paper or on the back of the canvas if desired.
"Edo Scroll for Modern Times," edition of 10, available in two sizes, hangs horizontally or vertically. 15.5 x 60" sheet with 11 x 57" image, $1,300 (edition of 10) 12 x 46.3" sheet with 8.5" x 43" image, $950 (edition of 10) Artwork ships in a rolled tube. Also available on canvas or other substrates by special order, cost based on materials and shipping weight. This piece was inspired by a film recently produced by Harvard Art Museums, "Edo Avant Garde," about the Edo period of Japanese art. The film was exquisitely made, transcendent in its blending of the photography of place and the spirit of the Edo, which was perhaps the finest era of Japanese painting and culture. Watching the film transported me back to my years studying with Chinese and Japanese calligraphy masters during my career as a calligrapher. I love the wildly abstract use of space in the Edo period, and the blending in works from that time of unfiltered emotion with an elegant sense of presentation and surface. I create the calligraphy for these pieces with a variety of tools and papers. I put on trance music or jazz, let the ink fly, and go into a not-thinking space. I am a highly trained calligrapher, versed in literally 100's of alphabets and styles. These pieces are an opportunity to turn off all my conscious training and respond purely to the paper and ink in the moment. The abstract purity of this imagery allows for a wide range of presentations. The work can be matted with liners and borders reminiscent of hanging silk scrolls, or printed on canvas or mounted on panel with no border or frame. This piece is a rare one that works as a horizontal narrative or as a vertical totem. If requesting it to hang a particular way please advise in advance, so that the signature is placed for that orientation. Signature on these limited editions is usually placed directly below the image, in light pencil, but can be placed at the edge of the paper or on the back of the canvas if desired.
"Edo Scroll for Modern Times," edition of 10, available in two sizes, hangs horizontally or vertically. 15.5 x 60" sheet with 11 x 57" image, $1,300 (edition of 10) 12 x 46.3" sheet with 8.5" x 43" image, $950 (edition of 10) Artwork ships in a rolled tube. Also available on canvas or other substrates by special order, cost based on materials and shipping weight. This piece was inspired by a film recently produced by Harvard Art Museums, "Edo Avant Garde," about the Edo period of Japanese art. The film was exquisitely made, transcendent in its blending of the photography of place and the spirit of the Edo, which was perhaps the finest era of Japanese painting and culture. Watching the film transported me back to my years studying with Chinese and Japanese calligraphy masters during my career as a calligrapher. I love the wildly abstract use of space in the Edo period, and the blending in works from that time of unfiltered emotion with an elegant sense of presentation and surface. I create the calligraphy for these pieces with a variety of tools and papers. I put on trance music or jazz, let the ink fly, and go into a not-thinking space. I am a highly trained calligrapher, versed in literally 100's of alphabets and styles. These pieces are an opportunity to turn off all my conscious training and respond purely to the paper and ink in the moment. The abstract purity of this imagery allows for a wide range of presentations. The work can be matted with liners and borders reminiscent of hanging silk scrolls, or printed on canvas or mounted on panel with no border or frame. This piece is a rare one that works as a horizontal narrative or as a vertical totem. If requesting it to hang a particular way please advise in advance, so that the signature is placed for that orientation. Signature on these limited editions is usually placed directly below the image, in light pencil, but can be placed at the edge of the paper or on the back of the canvas if desired.
"Edo Scroll for Modern Times," edition of 10, available in two sizes, hangs horizontally or vertically. 15.5 x 60" sheet with 11 x 57" image, $1,300 (edition of 10) 12 x 46.3" sheet with 8.5" x 43" image, $950 (edition of 10) Artwork ships in a rolled tube. Also available on canvas or other substrates by special order, cost based on materials and shipping weight. This piece was inspired by a film recently produced by Harvard Art Museums, "Edo Avant Garde," about the Edo period of Japanese art. The film was exquisitely made, transcendent in its blending of the photography of place and the spirit of the Edo, which was perhaps the finest era of Japanese painting and culture. Watching the film transported me back to my years studying with Chinese and Japanese calligraphy masters during my career as a calligrapher. I love the wildly abstract use of space in the Edo period, and the blending in works from that time of unfiltered emotion with an elegant sense of presentation and surface. I create the calligraphy for these pieces with a variety of tools and papers. I put on trance music or jazz, let the ink fly, and go into a not-thinking space. I am a highly trained calligrapher, versed in literally 100's of alphabets and styles. These pieces are an opportunity to turn off all my conscious training and respond purely to the paper and ink in the moment. The abstract purity of this imagery allows for a wide range of presentations. The work can be matted with liners and borders reminiscent of hanging silk scrolls, or printed on canvas or mounted on panel with no border or frame. This piece is a rare one that works as a horizontal narrative or as a vertical totem. If requesting it to hang a particular way please advise in advance, so that the signature is placed for that orientation. Signature on these limited editions is usually placed directly below the image, in light pencil, but can be placed at the edge of the paper or on the back of the canvas if desired.
"Edo Scroll for Modern Times," edition of 10, available in two sizes, hangs horizontally or vertically. 15.5 x 60" sheet with 11 x 57" image, $1,300 (edition of 10) 12 x 46.3" sheet with 8.5" x 43" image, $950 (edition of 10) Artwork ships in a rolled tube. Also available on canvas or other substrates by special order, cost based on materials and shipping weight. This piece was inspired by a film recently produced by Harvard Art Museums, "Edo Avant Garde," about the Edo period of Japanese art. The film was exquisitely made, transcendent in its blending of the photography of place and the spirit of the Edo, which was perhaps the finest era of Japanese painting and culture. Watching the film transported me back to my years studying with Chinese and Japanese calligraphy masters during my career as a calligrapher. I love the wildly abstract use of space in the Edo period, and the blending in works from that time of unfiltered emotion with an elegant sense of presentation and surface. I create the calligraphy for these pieces with a variety of tools and papers. I put on trance music or jazz, let the ink fly, and go into a not-thinking space. I am a highly trained calligrapher, versed in literally 100's of alphabets and styles. These pieces are an opportunity to turn off all my conscious training and respond purely to the paper and ink in the moment. The abstract purity of this imagery allows for a wide range of presentations. The work can be matted with liners and borders reminiscent of hanging silk scrolls, or printed on canvas or mounted on panel with no border or frame. This piece is a rare one that works as a horizontal narrative or as a vertical totem. If requesting it to hang a particular way please advise in advance, so that the signature is placed for that orientation. Signature on these limited editions is usually placed directly below the image, in light pencil, but can be placed at the edge of the paper or on the back of the canvas if desired.
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Iskra Johnson

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"Edo Scroll for Modern Times," edition of 10, available in two sizes, hangs horizontally or vertically. 15.5 x 60" sheet with 11 x 57" image, $1,300 (edition of 10) 12 x 46.3" sheet with 8.5" x 43" image, $950 (edition of 10) Artwork ships in a rolled tube. Also available on canvas or other substrates by special order, cost based on materials and shipping weight. This piece was inspired by a film recently produced by Harvard Art Museums, "Edo Avant Garde," about the Edo period of Japanese art. The film was exquisitely made, transcendent in its blending of the photography of place and the spirit of the Edo, which was perhaps the finest era of Japanese painting and culture. Watching the film transported me back to my years studying with Chinese and Japanese calligraphy masters during my career as a calligrapher. I love the wildly abstract use of space in the Edo period, and the blending in works from that time of unfiltered emotion with an elegant sense of presentation and surface. I create the calligraphy for these pieces with a variety of tools and papers. I put on trance music or jazz, let the ink fly, and go into a not-thinking space. I am a highly trained calligrapher, versed in literally 100's of alphabets and styles. These pieces are an opportunity to turn off all my conscious training and respond purely to the paper and ink in the moment. The abstract purity of this imagery allows for a wide range of presentations. The work can be matted with liners and borders reminiscent of hanging silk scrolls, or printed on canvas or mounted on panel with no border or frame. This piece is a rare one that works as a horizontal narrative or as a vertical totem. If requesting it to hang a particular way please advise in advance, so that the signature is placed for that orientation. Signature on these limited editions is usually placed directly below the image, in light pencil, but can be placed at the edge of the paper or on the back of the canvas if desired.

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Throughout my work I explore impermanence as it occurs in the urban landscape and in nature. My architectural prints and mixed media pieces focus on the radical reshaping of the built landscape through gentrification and de-industrialization. As we are confronted with change and our relationship to it, I am interested in the question of how much of the past we value and hold onto, and how much we let go to make the future our “now.” My work lives on the edge between nostalgia and accommodation, mediating through the elements of surface and iconic structure to a conversation about history, identity and sense of place. I have been a calligrapher and letter form artist for much of my professional art career, creating well known brandmarks for film, books and packaging. I have created custom typographic identities for Kitty Kelly, Clive Barker, Naomi Judd, and Anne Rice among others, and movie titling for Dreamworks and Walt Disney. As a fine artist I bring my passion for mark making and the architecture of letter forms into the abstract realm. I have a calligrapher's subtle sense of surface and texture, and incorporate calligraphic mark making into many of my pieces. I use photography, digital composition, printmaking, mixed media and collage, shifting as needed to suit my subject matter. I embrace new media and the infinite ways in which the analog and the digital can be shaken, stirred and poured into a new creative form.

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