Spotlight Artist
Harris Johnson
South
Artist Statement
Mundane events, personal failures, day-to-day experiences, and
art history fuel my work. I approach every painting with a sense
of urgency and humor. Images and subjects arrive through the
action of painting, and are destroyed and rebuilt through trial
and error. I use painting to depict my experiences of a frenetic,
beautiful, and terrifying world.
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