Cross/Currents exhibition featuring abstract paintings by Erick Johnson.
At the heart of Erick Johnson's approach to painting is his use of an imperfect grid consisting of irregular polygons. Sometimes, they are divided into smaller polygons but always painted with luminous, transparent colors, employing washes and overlays that create a visual symphony of relational color juxtapositions.
"What has long inspired me is the interplay between color and form," says Johnson. "I paint each polygon with successive overlapping bands of color, which are dragged and scraped using various tools."
These tools are handmade and work to create graphic striations and a visual record of movement made by the hand.
