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FREDERICK HOLMES AND COMPANY – GALLERY OF MODERN & CONTEMPORARY ART proudly introduces New York-based abstract assemblage artist, David Edward Johnson, in his Seattle debut!
Johnson’s work has been exhibited in galleries, universities, and art fairs in New York, New Jersey, Texas, Maine, California, Illinois, Colorado, Massachusetts, North Carolina, and was presented at the 2021 London Art Biennale. Johnson is an artist of enormous enthusiasm, talent and curiosity about all things. He’s a skilled painter, assemblage artist, video producer, social media contributor with thousands of followers, a deep knowledge of art, culture, American history, and a man with rich eclectic tastes in music.
Johnson was given his first solo exhibition, NO ROSES IN DECEMBER, at the esteemed Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY, which ran for nine weeks, January 27 thru March 31, 2024. The museum’s permanent collection of over 11,000 works is comprised of work by iconic figures of American Modern and Contemporary including Robert Rauschenberg, Helen Frankenthaler, Al Held, Andy Warhol, Barbara Kruger, Cindy Sherman, Andrew Wyeth, Ernest Trova, Philip Guston, Jean Michel Basquiat, and others.
The gallery’s introductory exhibition of Johnson’s assemblages is comprised of two groupings: PLASTIC ICONOCLASTIC, an examination and humorous critique of American popular and consumer culture; and secondly, his tribute to the origins and iconic figures of American Jazz, BOOGIE WOOGIE RUMBLE, which was created exclusively for this introductory FREDERICK HOLMES AND COMPANY show.
