Liv Johnson

Liv Johnson’s work focuses on the destabilizing effect of familiar surroundings becoming alien through environmental change. Drawing on depictions of idealized backdrops and curated settings, Johnson's imagery explores disruptions to presumptions of paradise with glimpses of encroaching phenomena. Figures are absent from the scene but they have dressed it. The landscape now asserts itself as the active entity with aggressively verdant vegetation and fermented color. Patterns, both organic and man-made, underpin the unpredictable quality of these events. These works represent a gathering of uncanny settings and intangible currents leading toward a pinnacle in which transformative action can be manifested.  Liv Johnson earned her BA in Art at the University of Hawaii at Hilo and her MFA in Studio Art with an emphasis in Printmaking and Sculpture at Texas Tech University. She now lives in Houston where she is Printmaking Department Head for the Glassell Studio School at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. 

Artwork from Liv Johnson's newest collection is now available for purchase below.