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The Spiral

This piece was a commission and is part of a new body of work focused on the objects people collect and want to honor through "object portraits." My approach starts with photography, which I then blend in my unique mixed media style with one of a kind painted surfaces. The resulting image can be produced on paper, canvas or other surfaces at a range of scales. "The Spiral" was produced on canvas and was designed as the centerpiece of the dining room.

By using photography as my basis I add an element of documentary fidelity to the expressive mix of paint and "the real." In some of the studies included in the secondary images here I also included drawing. Drawing is an essential part of my process of observation and getting to know an object.
The Spiral

This piece was a commission and is part of a new body of work focused on the objects people collect and want to honor through "object portraits." My approach starts with photography, which I then blend in my unique mixed media style with one of a kind painted surfaces. The resulting image can be produced on paper, canvas or other surfaces at a range of scales. "The Spiral" was produced on canvas and was designed as the centerpiece of the dining room.

By using photography as my basis I add an element of documentary fidelity to the expressive mix of paint and "the real." In some of the studies included in the secondary images here I also included drawing. Drawing is an essential part of my process of observation and getting to know an object.
The Spiral

This piece was a commission and is part of a new body of work focused on the objects people collect and want to honor through "object portraits." My approach starts with photography, which I then blend in my unique mixed media style with one of a kind painted surfaces. The resulting image can be produced on paper, canvas or other surfaces at a range of scales. "The Spiral" was produced on canvas and was designed as the centerpiece of the dining room.

By using photography as my basis I add an element of documentary fidelity to the expressive mix of paint and "the real." In some of the studies included in the secondary images here I also included drawing. Drawing is an essential part of my process of observation and getting to know an object.
The Spiral

This piece was a commission and is part of a new body of work focused on the objects people collect and want to honor through "object portraits." My approach starts with photography, which I then blend in my unique mixed media style with one of a kind painted surfaces. The resulting image can be produced on paper, canvas or other surfaces at a range of scales. "The Spiral" was produced on canvas and was designed as the centerpiece of the dining room.

By using photography as my basis I add an element of documentary fidelity to the expressive mix of paint and "the real." In some of the studies included in the secondary images here I also included drawing. Drawing is an essential part of my process of observation and getting to know an object.
The additional images show the design process. Working digitally allows for a great deal of flexibility and experimentation.

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The Spiral, Commissioned Art for Interior Photograph - Limited Edition of 1

Iskra Johnson

United States

Photography, Digital on Canvas

Size: 31 W x 42 H x 1.5 D in

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The Spiral This piece was a commission and is part of a new body of work focused on the objects people collect and want to honor through "object portraits." My approach starts with photography, which I then blend in my unique mixed media style with one of a kind painted surfaces. The resulting image can be produced on paper, canvas or other surfaces at a range of scales. "The Spiral" was produced on canvas and was designed as the centerpiece of the dining room. By using photography as my basis I add an element of documentary fidelity to the expressive mix of paint and "the real." In some of the studies included in the secondary images here I also included drawing. Drawing is an essential part of my process of observation and getting to know an object.

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Photography:

Digital on Canvas

Artist Produced Limited Edition of:

1

Size:

31 W x 42 H x 1.5 D in

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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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