January 7 - February 18, 2005

I want to evoke both self-evaluation and empathy. These works are nostalgic, dirty, and spun between the pseudo-specificity of the science book and the translation into metaphor. They are reconfigured on a flat plane like text, but dirtier. Stuttered open, they spread out like a story, like a joke where you can only remember the sense of the punch-line and it is not quite right. You wonder: "Hey, is that mine? You just told me, is it mine? Is the moment of hearing-telling-showing-remembering mine?" We are creatures of damage. We are creatures of radiance. We think we're so smart.

-- Kathryn Jill Johnson, 2004

KATHRYN JILL JOHNSON is an assistant professor of painting at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. She received her M.F.A. from the University of Georgia and her B.A. from the University of South Florida.

To see more work from Kathryn Jill Johnson, visit her website at http://www.gravitypi.com/.