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Earthquake Preparedness

August 25, 2011 by Iskra Leave a Comment

In the wake of all the little quakes and big ones to come, here is an offering.

Conserve-LaCalma
© Iskra Johnson, Transfer print on Arches 88, 21" by 13"

 

Filed Under: Transfer Prints Tagged With: earthquake poster, iconic art, transferprint collage

Summerlight

July 17, 2011 by Iskra Leave a Comment

This is the summer of endless elegy. The forms and colors of winter persist even as the sun comes out for a day or two and temperatures climb above 70. The newly planted vine maple is already turning red and I have not yet gone swimming. Only the foxgloves have been jubilant; this is the year I realized they aren’t weeds and let them go wild, a pearl and purple trumpet section playing throughout the garden.

SummerlightTransferPrint
Summerlight, transfer print, © Iskra Johnson

This transfer print blends the layers of sunlight past with autumn’s melancholies. The echinacea laid its stems at my feet last October. The sunlight came from my favorite yellow wall at 85th and Greenwood, photographed in 2009, recently graffitied with a luscious red heart and then abruptly painted beige. I am glad I captured its past life in my archives.

I am focusing on transfer prints exclusively right now, enraptured with the tools of the camera and the newest version of Photoshop. I am in that place where you try absolutely everything and sit back dazzled, and then subtract ninety percent of the possible, in search of the necessary. I’ll be moving back and forth all summer between two very different themes: the garden, and the street. The hard urban surfaces seem to need the antidote of what grows from the watering can and dirt. See more of these images in the gallery The Natural World

 

Filed Under: Photocollage, Photography, The Garden, Transfer Prints Tagged With: art as elegy, Iskra transfer prints

Pratt Fine Art Auction 2011: Bootlegger’s Ball

May 10, 2011 by Iskra Leave a Comment

This weekend Pratt Fine Art Center holds its annual gala fund raiser at Bell Harbor Conference Center. If you would like to preview the art and find out who won the awards come to the (free)  opening at Pratt Exposed this Friday from 6-9 PM at Bell Harbor. And if you plan to come to the auction but haven’t gotten a ticket it’s not too late! You will get to see art and artists all dressed up and biting their nails (the artists, that is.) I have contributed a print from a series called Werkspace, inspired by the printmaking studio at Pratt.

Templates
Templates, transfer print on Arches 88

Filed Under: Transfer Prints Tagged With: Iskra at Pratt auction, Pratt art auction, Pratt Bootlegger's Ball, Werkspace prints

Phoebe Snow: Talk to Me Some More

April 27, 2011 by Iskra Leave a Comment

Oh, Phoebe, talk to me some more, you don’t have to go…..

So many years and moments of my life were lived to the sound of your soaring voice. I made this image in memory of you last night, while listening to The Poetry Man. You will be missed.

Phoebe-Snow_eulogy
© Iskra Johnson

Pastel and photographic collage  transfer print on Arches 88.

Filed Under: Photography, Transfer Prints Tagged With: art inspired by music, in memory of Phoebe snow, Phoebe Snow, photocollage of bird and tree, The Poetry Man, tree shadow print

Choro Loco! New works about listening to music…..

January 31, 2011 by Iskra Leave a Comment

The other night I went to a concert of Choro music at The Chapel, a hidden gem of a concert venue. My friend Jere Smith, an artist in good standing at  the good Shepherd Center, introduced me to this exquisitely calibrated performance space. Phenomenal acoustics and an architecture of reverential mystery: you don’t forget your listening moments here. I was completely swayed by Choro Loco and it’s dedicated cast of musicians on clarinet, accordion, guitar and triangle. I have never seen a clarinetist undulate like smoke– who knew this was a sexy instrument???

I got into that music space, where notes take color-shape and the 1930’s blend with 1910 and future-perfect and perfect-past  in five languages. Remembrances of tango, waltz, polka, and sophisticated new-music grooves all interwoven into a heady eutophia — that’s utopia mixed with euphoria in case you haven’t yet been. Soon I pulled out my cell-phone, and started photographing in the low-res light. Herewith the first three prints in a new series called Choro: Listening to Music. All source material: Droid photos. Alcohol gel prints on Arches 88.

Music-StandPiano-MusicPiano-Music2 © Iskra Johnson

Filed Under: Photography, Transfer Prints Tagged With: Art about music, art about the music of Argentina, cell phone photo art, Choro Loco, Droid transfer prints, Good Shepherd Center, Jere Smith, Music Space Seattle, Prints about music, The Chapel

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Subtractive painting study and ground experiment: Subtractive painting study and ground experiment: I added baking soda to my gesso. Pretty wild texture here, not sure yet how stable it is. You can see the test of the edges in the second piece— the rugged edge only works if I get a pristine background and unfortunately the tape I used to mask it did not work consistently. Hello tape, my old friend and nemesis. You work differently on every surface. These little barn structures give me great comfort as the bigger structures of our government and nation seem to be crumbling.
Today’s landscape to quiet the mind. Out in the Today’s landscape to quiet the mind. Out in the fields somewhere, on the road to Edison. Acrylic on prepared ground, sketchbook.
MUST SEE! Ai, Rebel: The Art and Activism of Ai We MUST SEE! Ai, Rebel: The Art and Activism of Ai Weiwei at Seattle Art Museum.
I am thinking this morning about the phrase Americ I am thinking this morning about the phrase American Heartland. Learning to paint a barn means studying the neutrals. Our political discourse has pitted the barn people against the city people and there are no neutrals, just shouting. But if you walk out into the horizon lands, all you hear is the wind and a kestrel. Walk in boots, hard-pressed against your toes, walk on stubble barefoot and get acupuncture for a lifetime. Study the intervals: how the clouds can be in the upper one third neatly or one sixth, precarious, the future disappearing with the sun as it falls making the barn your whole world if you’re three years old and looking up; one big triangle with a square in the center, and so many mysteries inside the square. 

There is also the question of what kind of light seeps between the verticals and is the light coming in the evening or at midday when you can finally begin to make out all the other tiny squares within the big square, which would be called hay. Reach for the rope and swing out over the canyon, that great big canyon from bale to bale.

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A hybrid study, mixed process. Reading the New Yor A hybrid study, mixed process. Reading the New Yorker this morning, about the global population crash. This will upend urbanism, for sure, though it will very good for veterinarians and dog groomers:
“Only two communities appear to be maintaining very high fertility: ultra-Orthodox Jews and some Anabaptist sects. The economist Robin Hanson’s back-of-the-envelope calculations suggest that twenty-third-century America will be dominated by three hundred million Amish people. The likeliest version of the Great Replacement will see a countryside dotted everywhere with handsome barns.”
First Thursday. Such a beautiful night. First Thursday. Such a beautiful night.

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