Greg Johnson 

I was born and raised along the Texas Gulf Coast in the Houston / Galveston area. Unlike a lot of people, I never forgot how to make art as I grew older. After a painful detour through a Business degree at Texas State University in San Marcos and getting lost in the labyrinthine Cubicle world, I returned to the pursuit of art and earned my Bachelor of Fine Art degree at Texas A&M, Corpus Christi and my Master of Fine Art degree at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas. I currently work at the Southwest School of Art and Craft as a teacher and Studio Manager.

I've begun to think that, as an artist, I am like a radio tuner searching through the ethers and focusing in on some juicy part of an ongoing story that writes itself as I draw. The story finds life in images that I stumble across accidentally. Old photographs of nameless people found in a box in a junk store, images that haunt me and ache to fit into some narrative, open a channel to the story. Some direction for the story might be encouraged by something I've read in a poem, or something churned up in a daydream, or something that comes up in a conversation, or even the music that I listen to when I work. As the crayon, pencil, or brush moves across the paper, the story evolves to the place where I have to leave it, translated into the form of a finished drawing.

Southwest School of Art and Craft Navarro Gallery
"Art of Pulp Painting"

Discovering and capturing an image depends upon becoming fully present in a time and space and then waiting for something to happen.

For me the camera's viewfinder is the canvas and light is the paint. The relationships of time, events and objects determine the geometries of my compositions.

My work is about interconnectedness; about the oneness of everything.

Featuring Susan Beiner, Rebekah Bogard, Rebecca Hutchinson & Anne Drew Potter; curated by Ovidio Giberga