
George Bush
Artist: Rae Johnson
Work ID: 51414
Description: Live from Baghdad, The Cameron, Toronto, Jan. 2003
The paintings in this show are portraits of ideas playing out in the media, focusing on the recent renewed interest in nuclear war. CNN and Newsworld provide the landscape from which the omnipotent force of America and its allies pose and gesticulate, basking in the gaze of history.
I have stolen images from the public domain of broadcasting. Some of the faces will be familiar, however the intent is not to focus on nor criticise the individuals represented. The intent is to see the hierarchy of information bites in the tv media as a visual dance of the rites of war. By enhancing the images with the sensuous quality of oil paint, I want to turn these flickering media images into portraits of this moment, captured and remade into objects of beauty, and displayed on the "cave walls" of the Cameron.
Des mesures : 91.44 x 121.92 cm/po
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 2003
Matériaux : oil, wax on paper, mounted on canvas
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Oeuvre d'art par Rae Johnson
Suntan
Artist: Rae Johnson
ID : 910
Description:
Des mesures : 60.96 x 40.64 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1979
Matériaux : acrylic on paper
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Anima/Animus
Artist: Rae Johnson
ID : 911
Description:
Des mesures : 182.88 x 213.36 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1981
Matériaux : acrylic on canvas
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Night Games at the Paradise
Artist: Rae Johnson
ID : 914
Description:
Des mesures : 213.36 x 335.28 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1984
Matériaux : oil on canvas
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
I Can Hear It
Artist: Rae Johnson
ID : 912
Description:
Des mesures : Triptych: 91.44 x 274.32 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1984
Matériaux : oil on canvas
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
The Moon Drew Them to the Water
Artist: Rae Johnson
ID : 915
Description:
Des mesures : 149.86 x 180.34 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1984
Matériaux : oil on canvas
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Incident at the Lisbon Plate
Artist: Rae Johnson
ID : 913
Description:
Des mesures : 213.36 x 335.28 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1984
Matériaux : acrylic on canvas
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Blue Stairway
Artist: Rae Johnson
ID : 917
Description:
Des mesures : 215.9 x 165.1 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1985
Matériaux : oil on canvas
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Red Interior
Artist: Rae Johnson
ID : 916
Description:
Des mesures : 165.1 x 264.16 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1985
Matériaux : oil on canvas
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Night in Negril
Artist: Rae Johnson
ID : 918
Description:
Des mesures : 203.2 x 243.84 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1986
Matériaux : oil on canvas
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Theatre of the Dislocated
Artist: Rae Johnson
ID : 919
Description:
Des mesures : 165.1 x 264.16 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1986
Matériaux : oil on canvas
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Sunset Lake Winnipeg
Artist: Rae Johnson
ID : 940
Description:
Des mesures : 243.84 x 365.76 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1988
Matériaux : oil on mahogany
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Storm Front Breaking
Artist: Rae Johnson
ID : 942
Description:
Des mesures : 274.32 x 365.76 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1989
Matériaux : oil on mahogany
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Green Sky
Artist: Rae Johnson
ID : 943
Description:
Des mesures : 243.84 x 365.76 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1989
Matériaux : oil on mahogany
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Clouds Breaking
Artist: Rae Johnson
ID : 941
Description:
Des mesures : 243.84 x 243.84 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1989
Matériaux : oil on mahogany
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
…The Virgin Defiled
Artist: Rae Johnson
ID : 929
Description:
Des mesures : 213.36 x 121.92 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1991
Matériaux : oil on plywood
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
…Dragon of Queen W.
Artist: Rae Johnson
ID : 928
Description:
Des mesures : 213.36 x 121.92 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1991
Matériaux : oil on plywood
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Andromeda, Medusa, Star-Baby
Artist: Rae Johnson
ID : 930
Description:
Des mesures : 213.36 x 121.92 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1991
Matériaux : oil on plywood
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Cain’s Seed
Artist: Rae Johnson
ID : 926
Description:
Des mesures : 213.36 x 243.84 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1992
Matériaux : oil on canvas
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Bambino Miracolo (study)
Artist: Rae Johnson
ID : 920
Description:
Des mesures : 215.9 x 177.8 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1992
Matériaux : oil on canvas
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Mutilated Venus
Artist: Rae Johnson
ID : 925
Description:
Des mesures : 213.36 x 243.84 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1992
Matériaux : oil on canvas
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Via Cardelli Entrance
Artist: Rae Johnson
ID : 931
Description:
Des mesures : 249.936 x 199.898 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1992
Matériaux : oil on canvas
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Bambino Miracolo
Artist: Rae Johnson
ID : 921
Description: Artist's Statement
Bambino Miracolo and Annunciation were site specific paintings for the Canadian Cultural Centre in Rome, 1993. The time frame of the exhibition coincided with the deployment of UN troops to Somalia and Bosnia. The reason for making these paintings was to bear witness to the daily genocide for an international audience in a Canadian diplomatic venue.
This painting is predominantly blue, the colour of the spirit and the mind. Central to it is an infant heart transplant; humanity on life support. The angel is the mediary of unknown external forces and our destiny to balance life and death. Disembodied hands of science and god circle the infant in a late 20th century remake of the creation myth.
Des mesures : 299.974 x 400.05 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1993
Matériaux : oil on linen
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Annunciation
Artist: Rae Johnson
ID : 923
Description: Artist's Statement
Bambino Miracolo and Annunciation were site specific paintings for the Canadian Cultural Centre in Rome, 1993. The time frame of the exhibition coincided with the deployment of UN troops to Somalia and Bosnia. The reason for making these paintings was to bear witness to the daily genocide for an international audience in a Canadian diplomatic venue.
This painting is a visual prayer for Bosnia. It is predominantly red, the colour of blood and fecundity, representing the Earth. The Annunciation is a promise of the new -- a step toward the spiritual evolution of humanity. Central to it is the newborn "Benetton" baby surrounded by angel-soldiers. Above is a night sky containing the hands of the Feminine resting on red clothing/membrane concealing the angel of death.
Des mesures : 299.974 x 400.05 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1993
Matériaux : oil on linen
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Annunciation (study)
Artist: Rae Johnson
ID : 922
Description:
Des mesures : 249.936 x 150.114 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1993
Matériaux : oil on canvas
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Madonna of the Goldfinch/Baby
Artist: Rae Johnson
ID : 924
Description:
Des mesures : 182.88 x 213.36 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1994
Matériaux : oil on canvas
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Death / Baby
Artist: Rae Johnson
ID : 939
Description:
Des mesures : 60.96 x 76.2 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1994
Matériaux : acrylic on paper
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Interior/Red Chair
Artist: Rae Johnson
ID : 933
Description:
Des mesures : 213.36 x 243.84 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1994
Matériaux : oil on canvas
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Interior with Skull Mask
Artist: Rae Johnson
ID : 938
Description:
Des mesures : 60.96 x 76.2 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1994
Matériaux : acrylic on paper
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Windy Day, Flesherton Pond
Artist: Rae Johnson
ID : 950
Description:
Des mesures : 182.88 x 213.36 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1995
Matériaux : oil on birch
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Three Fates (detail)
Artist: Rae Johnson
ID : 1177
Description:
Des mesures :
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1995
Matériaux : oil on canvas
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Bright Day, Beaver Dam, Algoma
Artist: Rae Johnson
ID : 947
Description: Artist's Statement
The Algoma Paintings
These paintings were developed from oil sketches made on site in Algoma in the fall of 1994. Each is a careful study of the day, paintings of drowned land in a primordial northern Ontario forest. Isolated trees call to each other from across a bottomless black swamp.
Des mesures : 182.88 x 121.92 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1995
Matériaux : oil on birch
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Dark Day, Beaver Dam, Algoma
Artist: Rae Johnson
ID : 946
Description: Artist's Statement
The Algoma Paintings
These paintings were developed from oil sketches made on site in Algoma in the fall of 1994. Each is a careful study of the day, paintings of drowned land in a primordial northern Ontario forest. Isolated trees call to each other from across a bottomless black swamp.
Des mesures : 182.88 x 121.92 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1995
Matériaux : oil on birch
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Toronto Studio
Artist: Rae Johnson
ID : 932
Description:
Des mesures : 121.92 x 182.88 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1995
Matériaux : oil on wood panel
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Sun Dog, Beaver Dam, Algoma
Artist: Rae Johnson
ID : 945
Description: Artist's Statement
The Algoma Paintings
These paintings were developed from oil sketches made on site in Algoma in the fall of 1994. Each is a careful study of the day, paintings of drowned land in a primordial northern Ontario forest. Isolated trees call to each other from across a bottomless black swamp.
Des mesures : 182.88 x 121.92 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1995
Matériaux : oil on birch
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Study for Civil War Chair
Artist: Rae Johnson
ID : 935
Description:
Des mesures : 60.96 x 76.2 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1995
Matériaux : acrylic on paper
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Swamp Flowers, Flesherton Pond
Artist: Rae Johnson
ID : 951
Description:
Des mesures : 182.88 x 213.36 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1995
Matériaux : oil on birch
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Fallen Birch, Algoma
Artist: Rae Johnson
ID : 948
Description: Artist's Statement
The Algoma Paintings
These paintings were developed from oil sketches made on site in Algoma in the fall of 1994. Each is a careful study of the day, paintings of drowned land in a primordial northern Ontario forest. Isolated trees call to each other from across a bottomless black swamp.
Des mesures : 182.88 x 121.92 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1995
Matériaux : oil on birch
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Three Fates
Artist: Rae Johnson
ID : 927
Description:
Des mesures : 213.36 x 243.84 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1995
Matériaux : oil on canvas
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Reflections / Stumps
Artist: Rae Johnson
ID : 949
Description:
Des mesures : 182.88 x 213.36 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1995
Matériaux : oil on birch
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Interior/Civil War Chair
Artist: Rae Johnson
ID : 934
Description:
Des mesures : 213.36 x 243.84 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1995
Matériaux : oil on wood panel
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Cat / Yellow
Artist: Rae Johnson
ID : 51378
Description:
Des mesures : 45.72 x 30.48 cm/po
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1997
Matériaux : oil on panel
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Cat / Orange
Artist: Rae Johnson
ID : 51388
Description:
Des mesures : 45.72 x 30.48 cm/po
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1997
Matériaux : oil on panel
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Yellow Eyes
Artist: Rae Johnson
ID : 51389
Description:
Des mesures : 40.64 x 30.48 cm/po
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1997
Matériaux : oil on panel
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Study for Firebird
Artist: Rae Johnson
ID : 51395
Description:
Des mesures : 60.96 x 60.96 cm/po
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1997
Matériaux : oil on panel
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Girl and Her Cat
Artist: Rae Johnson
ID : 51380
Description:
Des mesures : 172.72 x 121.92 cm/po
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1997
Matériaux : oil on canvas
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Remembering You
Artist: Rae Johnson
ID : 51379
Description:
Des mesures : 121.92 x 121.92 cm/po
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1997
Matériaux : oil on panel
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Joslyn II with Cat
Artist: Rae Johnson
ID : 51382
Description: Dream Girl - 1999
The dream girl paintings began with photo sessions using a digital camera to record my daughter Joslyn sitting inside of a "still-life" of objects - curtains, glass tables, flowers, sculpture. As she sat quietly, her face would subtly transform, her inner thoughts floating across her features like shadows. When I saw a "moment" that I recognized I would record it, then draw it and paint it on canvas.
In this group of paintings, the digital photograph served as a preliminary drawing. I used a grid to map the digital image onto canvas. Then I used graphite to block in the image replicating the exact proportions of the digital still. An interesting perceptual tension arose. The surface is explicitly sensual with the stroking and smudging of a soft drawing graphite caught within the rigid outlines of the camera. The eye subliminally recognizes the proportions of a machine-seen "real" image - the digital photograph - yet the rendering is low-tech, tactile, hand-made "unreal".
Des mesures : 170.18 x 124.46 cm/po
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1998
Matériaux : oil on canvas
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Installation at Lonsdale Gallery, Toronto
Artist: Rae Johnson
ID : 51390
Description:
Des mesures :
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1998
Matériaux :
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Firebird, Lake Winnipeg
Artist: Rae Johnson
ID : 51393
Description:
Des mesures : 213.36 x 182.88 cm/po
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1998
Matériaux : oil on panel
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Streamers
Artist: Rae Johnson
ID : 51391
Description:
Des mesures : 182.88 x 213.36 cm/po
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1998
Matériaux : oil on panel
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Storm Front, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Artist: Rae Johnson
ID : 51392
Description:
Des mesures : 213.36 x 182.88 cm/po
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1998
Matériaux : oil on panel
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Hexagonal table
Artist: Rae Johnson
ID : 51381
Description:
Des mesures : 121.92 x 121.92 cm/po
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1998
Matériaux : oil on panel
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Installation at Lonsdale Gallery, Toronto
Artist: Rae Johnson
ID : 51394
Description:
Des mesures :
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1998
Matériaux :
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Joslyn IV Dream Girl
Artist: Rae Johnson
ID : 51383
Description: Dream Girl - 1999
The dream girl paintings began with photo sessions using a digital camera to record my daughter Joslyn sitting inside of a "still-life" of objects - curtains, glass tables, flowers, sculpture. As she sat quietly, her face would subtly transform, her inner thoughts floating across her features like shadows. When I saw a "moment" that I recognized I would record it, then draw it and paint it on canvas.
In this group of paintings, the digital photograph served as a preliminary drawing. I used a grid to map the digital image onto canvas. Then I used graphite to block in the image replicating the exact proportions of the digital still. An interesting perceptual tension arose. The surface is explicitly sensual with the stroking and smudging of a soft drawing graphite caught within the rigid outlines of the camera. The eye subliminally recognizes the proportions of a machine-seen "real" image - the digital photograph - yet the rendering is low-tech, tactile, hand-made "unreal".
Des mesures : 177.8 x 127 cm/po
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1999
Matériaux : oil on canvas
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Joslyn III with Broken Flower
Artist: Rae Johnson
ID : 51385
Description: Dream Girl - 1999
The dream girl paintings began with photo sessions using a digital camera to record my daughter Joslyn sitting inside of a "still-life" of objects - curtains, glass tables, flowers, sculpture. As she sat quietly, her face would subtly transform, her inner thoughts floating across her features like shadows. When I saw a "moment" that I recognized I would record it, then draw it and paint it on canvas.
In this group of paintings, the digital photograph served as a preliminary drawing. I used a grid to map the digital image onto canvas. Then I used graphite to block in the image replicating the exact proportions of the digital still. An interesting perceptual tension arose. The surface is explicitly sensual with the stroking and smudging of a soft drawing graphite caught within the rigid outlines of the camera. The eye subliminally recognizes the proportions of a machine-seen "real" image - the digital photograph - yet the rendering is low-tech, tactile, hand-made "unreal".
Des mesures : 177.8 x 124.46 cm/po
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1999
Matériaux : oil on canvas
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Study for Dream Girl
Artist: Rae Johnson
ID : 51387
Description: Dream Girl - 1999
The dream girl paintings began with photo sessions using a digital camera to record my daughter Joslyn sitting inside of a "still-life" of objects - curtains, glass tables, flowers, sculpture. As she sat quietly, her face would subtly transform, her inner thoughts floating across her features like shadows. When I saw a "moment" that I recognized I would record it, then draw it and paint it on canvas.
In this group of paintings, the digital photograph served as a preliminary drawing. I used a grid to map the digital image onto canvas. Then I used graphite to block in the image replicating the exact proportions of the digital still. An interesting perceptual tension arose. The surface is explicitly sensual with the stroking and smudging of a soft drawing graphite caught within the rigid outlines of the camera. The eye subliminally recognizes the proportions of a machine-seen "real" image - the digital photograph - yet the rendering is low-tech, tactile, hand-made "unreal".
Des mesures :
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1999
Matériaux : oil on panel
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Joslyn IV with Geranium
Artist: Rae Johnson
ID : 51386
Description: Dream Girl - 1999
The dream girl paintings began with photo sessions using a digital camera to record my daughter Joslyn sitting inside of a "still-life" of objects - curtains, glass tables, flowers, sculpture. As she sat quietly, her face would subtly transform, her inner thoughts floating across her features like shadows. When I saw a "moment" that I recognized I would record it, then draw it and paint it on canvas.
In this group of paintings, the digital photograph served as a preliminary drawing. I used a grid to map the digital image onto canvas. Then I used graphite to block in the image replicating the exact proportions of the digital still. An interesting perceptual tension arose. The surface is explicitly sensual with the stroking and smudging of a soft drawing graphite caught within the rigid outlines of the camera. The eye subliminally recognizes the proportions of a machine-seen "real" image - the digital photograph - yet the rendering is low-tech, tactile, hand-made "unreal".
Des mesures : 157.48 x 124.46 cm/po
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1999
Matériaux : oil on canvas
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Joslyn I with New Guinea Head
Artist: Rae Johnson
ID : 51384
Description: Dream Girl - 1999
The dream girl paintings began with photo sessions using a digital camera to record my daughter Joslyn sitting inside of a "still-life" of objects - curtains, glass tables, flowers, sculpture. As she sat quietly, her face would subtly transform, her inner thoughts floating across her features like shadows. When I saw a "moment" that I recognized I would record it, then draw it and paint it on canvas.
In this group of paintings, the digital photograph served as a preliminary drawing. I used a grid to map the digital image onto canvas. Then I used graphite to block in the image replicating the exact proportions of the digital still. An interesting perceptual tension arose. The surface is explicitly sensual with the stroking and smudging of a soft drawing graphite caught within the rigid outlines of the camera. The eye subliminally recognizes the proportions of a machine-seen "real" image - the digital photograph - yet the rendering is low-tech, tactile, hand-made "unreal".
Des mesures : 119.38 x 88.9 cm/po
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1999
Matériaux : oil on canvas
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Dreamgirl Exhibition, [installation view, Art Gallery of Peterborough]
Artist: Rae Johnson
ID : 51400
Description:
Des mesures :
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 2000
Matériaux :
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Dreamgirl Exhibition, [installation view, Art Gallery of Peterborough]
Artist: Rae Johnson
ID : 51398
Description:
Des mesures :
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 2000
Matériaux :
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Dreamgirl Exhibition, [installation view, Art Gallery of Peterborough]
Artist: Rae Johnson
ID : 51401
Description:
Des mesures :
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 2000
Matériaux :
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Dreamgirl Exhibition, [installation view, Art Gallery of Peterborough]
Artist: Rae Johnson
ID : 51396
Description:
Des mesures :
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 2000
Matériaux :
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Dreamgirl Exhibition, [installation view, Art Gallery of Peterborough]
Artist: Rae Johnson
ID : 51399
Description:
Des mesures :
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 2000
Matériaux :
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Dreamgirl Exhibition, [installation view, Art Gallery of Peterborough]
Artist: Rae Johnson
ID : 51397
Description:
Des mesures :
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 2000
Matériaux :
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Shaking Plane
Artist: Rae Johnson
ID : 51407
Description: The Ghost Plane Paintings 2001 - 2002.
In the first weeks after September 11th, I could not continue in the studio, business as usual. The events of 9-11, were of mythic proportions, a horrific expression of the collision of opposing world views. Ethically, I could not ignore the historic impact of the event. At the same time, I did not want to indulge in the jingoistic sensationalist frenzy playing out in the media. Who's Armegeddon is it anyway?
I was compelled to make these paintings after September 11th. I was fascinated by the image of United Airlines Flight 175 caught on video seconds before it vaporized into its target - captured in time - living on in endless spectacular replays in the news. I contemplated how the event continues to exist as a horrific afterimage in the collective memory - replaying over and over again in the media and in the dimension of thought.
The ghost plane is the central image in all of the paintings in this series. These oil and wax paintings, are visceral descriptions of Flight 175 as I conceptualize it, trapped within the space time continuum, like a prehistoric fly suspended in amber. I have painted and over-painted the image of the plane until it started to resonate from the materiality of the black paint itself. Eventually a platonic idea of the plane became embedded in the paint - an accumulation of hundreds of layers of painted planes, emerging visually out of a black nothing, shifting and shaking into discernable forms. These paintings function as mnemonic snap shots. They are slow to see and become clearer the longer they are looked at.
Des mesures : 93.98 x 121.92 cm/po
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 2001
Matériaux : oil, latex, wax on canvas
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Disappearing Plane
Artist: Rae Johnson
ID : 51405
Description: The Ghost Plane Paintings 2001 - 2002.
In the first weeks after September 11th, I could not continue in the studio, business as usual. The events of 9-11, were of mythic proportions, a horrific expression of the collision of opposing world views. Ethically, I could not ignore the historic impact of the event. At the same time, I did not want to indulge in the jingoistic sensationalist frenzy playing out in the media. Who's Armegeddon is it anyway?
I was compelled to make these paintings after September 11th. I was fascinated by the image of United Airlines Flight 175 caught on video seconds before it vaporized into its target - captured in time - living on in endless spectacular replays in the news. I contemplated how the event continues to exist as a horrific afterimage in the collective memory - replaying over and over again in the media and in the dimension of thought.
The ghost plane is the central image in all of the paintings in this series. These oil and wax paintings, are visceral descriptions of Flight 175 as I conceptualize it, trapped within the space time continuum, like a prehistoric fly suspended in amber. I have painted and over-painted the image of the plane until it started to resonate from the materiality of the black paint itself. Eventually a platonic idea of the plane became embedded in the paint - an accumulation of hundreds of layers of painted planes, emerging visually out of a black nothing, shifting and shaking into discernable forms. These paintings function as mnemonic snap shots. They are slow to see and become clearer the longer they are looked at.
Des mesures : 152.4 x 121.92 cm/po
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 2001
Matériaux : oil, latex, wax on canvas
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Falling Plane
Artist: Rae Johnson
ID : 51404
Description: The Ghost Plane Paintings 2001 - 2002.
In the first weeks after September 11th, I could not continue in the studio, business as usual. The events of 9-11, were of mythic proportions, a horrific expression of the collision of opposing world views. Ethically, I could not ignore the historic impact of the event. At the same time, I did not want to indulge in the jingoistic sensationalist frenzy playing out in the media. Who's Armegeddon is it anyway?
I was compelled to make these paintings after September 11th. I was fascinated by the image of United Airlines Flight 175 caught on video seconds before it vaporized into its target - captured in time - living on in endless spectacular replays in the news. I contemplated how the event continues to exist as a horrific afterimage in the collective memory - replaying over and over again in the media and in the dimension of thought.
The ghost plane is the central image in all of the paintings in this series. These oil and wax paintings, are visceral descriptions of Flight 175 as I conceptualize it, trapped within the space time continuum, like a prehistoric fly suspended in amber. I have painted and over-painted the image of the plane until it started to resonate from the materiality of the black paint itself. Eventually a platonic idea of the plane became embedded in the paint - an accumulation of hundreds of layers of painted planes, emerging visually out of a black nothing, shifting and shaking into discernable forms. These paintings function as mnemonic snap shots. They are slow to see and become clearer the longer they are looked at.
Des mesures : 160.02 x 121.92 cm/po
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 2001
Matériaux : oil, latex, wax on canvas
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Fading Plane
Artist: Rae Johnson
ID : 51406
Description: The Ghost Plane Paintings 2001 - 2002.
In the first weeks after September 11th, I could not continue in the studio, business as usual. The events of 9-11, were of mythic proportions, a horrific expression of the collision of opposing world views. Ethically, I could not ignore the historic impact of the event. At the same time, I did not want to indulge in the jingoistic sensationalist frenzy playing out in the media. Who's Armegeddon is it anyway?
I was compelled to make these paintings after September 11th. I was fascinated by the image of United Airlines Flight 175 caught on video seconds before it vaporized into its target - captured in time - living on in endless spectacular replays in the news. I contemplated how the event continues to exist as a horrific afterimage in the collective memory - replaying over and over again in the media and in the dimension of thought.
The ghost plane is the central image in all of the paintings in this series. These oil and wax paintings, are visceral descriptions of Flight 175 as I conceptualize it, trapped within the space time continuum, like a prehistoric fly suspended in amber. I have painted and over-painted the image of the plane until it started to resonate from the materiality of the black paint itself. Eventually a platonic idea of the plane became embedded in the paint - an accumulation of hundreds of layers of painted planes, emerging visually out of a black nothing, shifting and shaking into discernable forms. These paintings function as mnemonic snap shots. They are slow to see and become clearer the longer they are looked at.
Des mesures : 121.92 x 93.98 cm/po
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 2001
Matériaux : oil, latex, wax on canvas
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Point / Plane
Artist: Rae Johnson
ID : 51402
Description: The Ghost Plane Paintings 2001 - 2002.
In the first weeks after September 11th, I could not continue in the studio, business as usual. The events of 9-11, were of mythic proportions, a horrific expression of the collision of opposing world views. Ethically, I could not ignore the historic impact of the event. At the same time, I did not want to indulge in the jingoistic sensationalist frenzy playing out in the media. Who's Armegeddon is it anyway?
I was compelled to make these paintings after September 11th. I was fascinated by the image of United Airlines Flight 175 caught on video seconds before it vaporized into its target - captured in time - living on in endless spectacular replays in the news. I contemplated how the event continues to exist as a horrific afterimage in the collective memory - replaying over and over again in the media and in the dimension of thought.
The ghost plane is the central image in all of the paintings in this series. These oil and wax paintings, are visceral descriptions of Flight 175 as I conceptualize it, trapped within the space time continuum, like a prehistoric fly suspended in amber. I have painted and over-painted the image of the plane until it started to resonate from the materiality of the black paint itself. Eventually a platonic idea of the plane became embedded in the paint - an accumulation of hundreds of layers of painted planes, emerging visually out of a black nothing, shifting and shaking into discernable forms. These paintings function as mnemonic snap shots. They are slow to see and become clearer the longer they are looked at.
Des mesures : 68.58 x 121.92 cm/po
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 2001
Matériaux : oil, latex, wax on canvas
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Point / Plane, [horizontal]
Artist: Rae Johnson
ID : 51403
Description: The Ghost Plane Paintings 2001 - 2002.
In the first weeks after September 11th, I could not continue in the studio, business as usual. The events of 9-11, were of mythic proportions, a horrific expression of the collision of opposing world views. Ethically, I could not ignore the historic impact of the event. At the same time, I did not want to indulge in the jingoistic sensationalist frenzy playing out in the media. Who's Armegeddon is it anyway?
I was compelled to make these paintings after September 11th. I was fascinated by the image of United Airlines Flight 175 caught on video seconds before it vaporized into its target - captured in time - living on in endless spectacular replays in the news. I contemplated how the event continues to exist as a horrific afterimage in the collective memory - replaying over and over again in the media and in the dimension of thought.
The ghost plane is the central image in all of the paintings in this series. These oil and wax paintings, are visceral descriptions of Flight 175 as I conceptualize it, trapped within the space time continuum, like a prehistoric fly suspended in amber. I have painted and over-painted the image of the plane until it started to resonate from the materiality of the black paint itself. Eventually a platonic idea of the plane became embedded in the paint - an accumulation of hundreds of layers of painted planes, emerging visually out of a black nothing, shifting and shaking into discernable forms. These paintings function as mnemonic snap shots. They are slow to see and become clearer the longer they are looked at.
Des mesures : 81.28 x 121.92 cm/po
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 2001
Matériaux : oil, latex, wax on canvas
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Monkey Man
Artist: Rae Johnson
ID : 51410
Description:
Des mesures :
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 2002
Matériaux : oil, latex, wax on canvas
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Monkey Man, [installation view, Fly Gallery, Toronto]
Artist: Rae Johnson
ID : 51411
Description:
Des mesures :
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 2002
Matériaux :
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
The moment-9-11/ ghost plane / angel of death
Artist: Rae Johnson
ID : 51408
Description:
Des mesures : 203.2 x 241.3 cm/po
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 2002
Matériaux : oil, latex, wax on canvas
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
The moment-9-11/ ghost plane / angel of death, [detail]
Artist: Rae Johnson
ID : 51409
Description:
Des mesures : 203.2 x 241.3 cm/po
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 2002
Matériaux : oil, latex, wax on canvas
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Gunning for Saddam
Artist: Rae Johnson
ID : 51412
Description: Live from Baghdad, The Cameron, Toronto, Jan. 2003
The paintings in this show are portraits of ideas playing out in the media, focusing on the recent renewed interest in nuclear war. CNN and Newsworld provide the landscape from which the omnipotent force of America and its allies pose and gesticulate, basking in the gaze of history.
I have stolen images from the public domain of broadcasting. Some of the faces will be familiar, however the intent is not to focus on nor criticise the individuals represented. The intent is to see the hierarchy of information bites in the tv media as a visual dance of the rites of war. By enhancing the images with the sensuous quality of oil paint, I want to turn these flickering media images into portraits of this moment, captured and remade into objects of beauty, and displayed on the "cave walls" of the Cameron.
Des mesures : 91.44 x 121.92 cm/po
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 2003
Matériaux : oil, wax on paper, mounted on canvas
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
George Bush
Artist: Rae Johnson
ID : 51414
Description: Live from Baghdad, The Cameron, Toronto, Jan. 2003
The paintings in this show are portraits of ideas playing out in the media, focusing on the recent renewed interest in nuclear war. CNN and Newsworld provide the landscape from which the omnipotent force of America and its allies pose and gesticulate, basking in the gaze of history.
I have stolen images from the public domain of broadcasting. Some of the faces will be familiar, however the intent is not to focus on nor criticise the individuals represented. The intent is to see the hierarchy of information bites in the tv media as a visual dance of the rites of war. By enhancing the images with the sensuous quality of oil paint, I want to turn these flickering media images into portraits of this moment, captured and remade into objects of beauty, and displayed on the "cave walls" of the Cameron.
Des mesures : 91.44 x 121.92 cm/po
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 2003
Matériaux : oil, wax on paper, mounted on canvas
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Live from Baghdad
Artist: Rae Johnson
ID : 51415
Description: Live from Baghdad, The Cameron, Toronto, Jan. 2003
The paintings in this show are portraits of ideas playing out in the media, focusing on the recent renewed interest in nuclear war. CNN and Newsworld provide the landscape from which the omnipotent force of America and its allies pose and gesticulate, basking in the gaze of history.
I have stolen images from the public domain of broadcasting. Some of the faces will be familiar, however the intent is not to focus on nor criticise the individuals represented. The intent is to see the hierarchy of information bites in the tv media as a visual dance of the rites of war. By enhancing the images with the sensuous quality of oil paint, I want to turn these flickering media images into portraits of this moment, captured and remade into objects of beauty, and displayed on the "cave walls" of the Cameron.
Des mesures : 121.92 x 91.44 cm/po
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 2003
Matériaux : oil, wax on paper, mounted on canvas
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Axis of Evil
Artist: Rae Johnson
ID : 51416
Description: Live from Baghdad, The Cameron, Toronto, Jan. 2003
The paintings in this show are portraits of ideas playing out in the media, focusing on the recent renewed interest in nuclear war. CNN and Newsworld provide the landscape from which the omnipotent force of America and its allies pose and gesticulate, basking in the gaze of history.
I have stolen images from the public domain of broadcasting. Some of the faces will be familiar, however the intent is not to focus on nor criticise the individuals represented. The intent is to see the hierarchy of information bites in the tv media as a visual dance of the rites of war. By enhancing the images with the sensuous quality of oil paint, I want to turn these flickering media images into portraits of this moment, captured and remade into objects of beauty, and displayed on the "cave walls" of the Cameron.
Des mesures : 91.44 x 121.92 cm/po
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 2003
Matériaux : oil, wax on paper, mounted on canvas
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Nuclear Threats
Artist: Rae Johnson
ID : 51413
Description: Live from Baghdad, The Cameron, Toronto, Jan. 2003
The paintings in this show are portraits of ideas playing out in the media, focusing on the recent renewed interest in nuclear war. CNN and Newsworld provide the landscape from which the omnipotent force of America and its allies pose and gesticulate, basking in the gaze of history.
I have stolen images from the public domain of broadcasting. Some of the faces will be familiar, however the intent is not to focus on nor criticise the individuals represented. The intent is to see the hierarchy of information bites in the tv media as a visual dance of the rites of war. By enhancing the images with the sensuous quality of oil paint, I want to turn these flickering media images into portraits of this moment, captured and remade into objects of beauty, and displayed on the "cave walls" of the Cameron.
Des mesures : 91.44 x 121.92 cm/po
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 2003
Matériaux : oil, wax on paper, mounted on canvas
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Was she dead…? #2
Artist: Rae Johnson
ID : 71360
Description: "Beautiful Dead Girls", or "Sleeping Beauty"
These paintings are contemplations on current ideals of beauty and desire, taken from the entertainment media, embedded in the timeless theme of Sex and Death.
In this series of work, I have concentrated on capturing television images of the "pretend" female corpse. The centre piece of the wildly popular forensic crime show genre, she belongs in the same category with Sleeping Beauty, Hamlet's Ophelia, Persephone and all mythical figures of feminine passivity in the extreme.
The current version of the ravaged heroine, is a fetishistic creature of contemporary lust and revulsion portraying a particular kind of Beauty œ motionless, mute, and dead œ a mortiferous object on which to project the collective fears and desires of the viewing public. The banal ugliness of brutality is glamourized in scenes of artfully constructed fictions blurring reality with fantasies of fear, repulsion and desire.
Removed from reality and elegantly restaged, the Brutal is somehow made Aesthetic. Images of Horror are made Beautiful. These paintings are intended to be visually beautiful
and at the same time, subtly disturbing. They are reflections of artificially constructed images of eroticism and death in popular entertainment culture.
This work was created at the Banff Centre for the Arts. The landscape elements are Albertan mountains and skies interrupted by highways and factories. The figurative elements are taken from broadcast television.
Des mesures : 111.76 x 152.4 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 2005
Matériaux : digitally created image, over-painted with cold wax medium and oil paint, printed on canvas
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Head/Clouds
Artist: Rae Johnson
ID : 71355
Description: "Beautiful Dead Girls", or "Sleeping Beauty"
These paintings are contemplations on current ideals of beauty and desire, taken from the entertainment media, embedded in the timeless theme of Sex and Death.
In this series of work, I have concentrated on capturing television images of the "pretend" female corpse. The centre piece of the wildly popular forensic crime show genre, she belongs in the same category with Sleeping Beauty, Hamlet's Ophelia, Persephone and all mythical figures of feminine passivity in the extreme.
The current version of the ravaged heroine, is a fetishistic creature of contemporary lust and revulsion portraying a particular kind of Beauty œ motionless, mute, and dead œ a mortiferous object on which to project the collective fears and desires of the viewing public. The banal ugliness of brutality is glamourized in scenes of artfully constructed fictions blurring reality with fantasies of fear, repulsion and desire.
Removed from reality and elegantly restaged, the Brutal is somehow made Aesthetic. Images of Horror are made Beautiful. These paintings are intended to be visually beautiful
and at the same time, subtly disturbing. They are reflections of artificially constructed images of eroticism and death in popular entertainment culture.
This work was created at the Banff Centre for the Arts. The landscape elements are Albertan mountains and skies interrupted by highways and factories. The figurative elements are taken from broadcast television.
Des mesures : 60.96 x 76.2 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 2005
Matériaux : digitally created image, over-painted with cold wax medium and oil paint, printed on watercolour paper
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Head/Tornado
Artist: Rae Johnson
ID : 71363
Description: "Beautiful Dead Girls", or "Sleeping Beauty"
These paintings are contemplations on current ideals of beauty and desire, taken from the entertainment media, embedded in the timeless theme of Sex and Death.
In this series of work, I have concentrated on capturing television images of the "pretend" female corpse. The centre piece of the wildly popular forensic crime show genre, she belongs in the same category with Sleeping Beauty, Hamlet's Ophelia, Persephone and all mythical figures of feminine passivity in the extreme.
The current version of the ravaged heroine, is a fetishistic creature of contemporary lust and revulsion portraying a particular kind of Beauty œ motionless, mute, and dead œ a mortiferous object on which to project the collective fears and desires of the viewing public. The banal ugliness of brutality is glamourized in scenes of artfully constructed fictions blurring reality with fantasies of fear, repulsion and desire.
Removed from reality and elegantly restaged, the Brutal is somehow made Aesthetic. Images of Horror are made Beautiful. These paintings are intended to be visually beautiful
and at the same time, subtly disturbing. They are reflections of artificially constructed images of eroticism and death in popular entertainment culture.
This work was created at the Banff Centre for the Arts. The landscape elements are Albertan mountains and skies interrupted by highways and factories. The figurative elements are taken from broadcast television.
Des mesures : 101.6 x 167.64 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 2005
Matériaux : digitally created image, over-painted with cold wax medium and oil paint, printed on acid free bond paper
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Disinterred Girl
Artist: Rae Johnson
ID : 71358
Description: "Beautiful Dead Girls", or "Sleeping Beauty"
These paintings are contemplations on current ideals of beauty and desire, taken from the entertainment media, embedded in the timeless theme of Sex and Death.
In this series of work, I have concentrated on capturing television images of the "pretend" female corpse. The centre piece of the wildly popular forensic crime show genre, she belongs in the same category with Sleeping Beauty, Hamlet's Ophelia, Persephone and all mythical figures of feminine passivity in the extreme.
The current version of the ravaged heroine, is a fetishistic creature of contemporary lust and revulsion portraying a particular kind of Beauty œ motionless, mute, and dead œ a mortiferous object on which to project the collective fears and desires of the viewing public. The banal ugliness of brutality is glamourized in scenes of artfully constructed fictions blurring reality with fantasies of fear, repulsion and desire.
Removed from reality and elegantly restaged, the Brutal is somehow made Aesthetic. Images of Horror are made Beautiful. These paintings are intended to be visually beautiful
and at the same time, subtly disturbing. They are reflections of artificially constructed images of eroticism and death in popular entertainment culture.
This work was created at the Banff Centre for the Arts. The landscape elements are Albertan mountains and skies interrupted by highways and factories. The figurative elements are taken from broadcast television.
Des mesures : 60.96 x 76.2 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 2005
Matériaux : digitally created image, over-painted with cold wax medium and oil paint, printed on watercolour paper
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Sunst/Bullet Hole
Artist: Rae Johnson
ID : 71361
Description: "Beautiful Dead Girls", or "Sleeping Beauty"
These paintings are contemplations on current ideals of beauty and desire, taken from the entertainment media, embedded in the timeless theme of Sex and Death.
In this series of work, I have concentrated on capturing television images of the "pretend" female corpse. The centre piece of the wildly popular forensic crime show genre, she belongs in the same category with Sleeping Beauty, Hamlet's Ophelia, Persephone and all mythical figures of feminine passivity in the extreme.
The current version of the ravaged heroine, is a fetishistic creature of contemporary lust and revulsion portraying a particular kind of Beauty œ motionless, mute, and dead œ a mortiferous object on which to project the collective fears and desires of the viewing public. The banal ugliness of brutality is glamourized in scenes of artfully constructed fictions blurring reality with fantasies of fear, repulsion and desire.
Removed from reality and elegantly restaged, the Brutal is somehow made Aesthetic. Images of Horror are made Beautiful. These paintings are intended to be visually beautiful
and at the same time, subtly disturbing. They are reflections of artificially constructed images of eroticism and death in popular entertainment culture.
This work was created at the Banff Centre for the Arts. The landscape elements are Albertan mountains and skies interrupted by highways and factories. The figurative elements are taken from broadcast television.
Des mesures : 101.6 x 167.64 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 2005
Matériaux : digitally created image, over-painted with cold wax medium and oil paint, printed on acid free bond paper
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Head/Banff Highway
Artist: Rae Johnson
ID : 71362
Description: "Beautiful Dead Girls", or "Sleeping Beauty"
These paintings are contemplations on current ideals of beauty and desire, taken from the entertainment media, embedded in the timeless theme of Sex and Death.
In this series of work, I have concentrated on capturing television images of the "pretend" female corpse. The centre piece of the wildly popular forensic crime show genre, she belongs in the same category with Sleeping Beauty, Hamlet's Ophelia, Persephone and all mythical figures of feminine passivity in the extreme.
The current version of the ravaged heroine, is a fetishistic creature of contemporary lust and revulsion portraying a particular kind of Beauty á motionless, mute, and dead á a mortiferous object on which to project the collective fears and desires of the viewing public. The banal ugliness of brutality is glamourized in scenes of artfully constructed fictions blurring reality with fantasies of fear, repulsion and desire.
Removed from reality and elegantly restaged, the Brutal is somehow made Aesthetic. Images of Horror are made Beautiful. These paintings are intended to be visually beautiful
and at the same time, subtly disturbing. They are reflections of artificially constructed images of eroticism and death in popular entertainment culture.
This work was created at the Banff Centre for the Arts. The landscape elements are Albertan mountains and skies interrupted by highways and factories. The figurative elements are taken from broadcast television.
Des mesures : 101.6 x 142.24 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 2005
Matériaux : digitally created image, over-painted with cold wax medium and oil paint, printed on acid free bond paper
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Decomposing Head
Artist: Rae Johnson
ID : 71356
Description: "Beautiful Dead Girls", or "Sleeping Beauty"
These paintings are contemplations on current ideals of beauty and desire, taken from the entertainment media, embedded in the timeless theme of Sex and Death.
In this series of work, I have concentrated on capturing television images of the "pretend" female corpse. The centre piece of the wildly popular forensic crime show genre, she belongs in the same category with Sleeping Beauty, Hamlet's Ophelia, Persephone and all mythical figures of feminine passivity in the extreme.
The current version of the ravaged heroine, is a fetishistic creature of contemporary lust and revulsion portraying a particular kind of Beauty œ motionless, mute, and dead œ a mortiferous object on which to project the collective fears and desires of the viewing public. The banal ugliness of brutality is glamourized in scenes of artfully constructed fictions blurring reality with fantasies of fear, repulsion and desire.
Removed from reality and elegantly restaged, the Brutal is somehow made Aesthetic. Images of Horror are made Beautiful. These paintings are intended to be visually beautiful
and at the same time, subtly disturbing. They are reflections of artificially constructed images of eroticism and death in popular entertainment culture.
This work was created at the Banff Centre for the Arts. The landscape elements are Albertan mountains and skies interrupted by highways and factories. The figurative elements are taken from broadcast television.
Des mesures : 60.96 x 76.2 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 2005
Matériaux : digitally created image, over-painted with cold wax medium and oil paint, printed on watercolour paper
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Cement Head
Artist: Rae Johnson
ID : 71357
Description: "Beautiful Dead Girls", or "Sleeping Beauty"
These paintings are contemplations on current ideals of beauty and desire, taken from the entertainment media, embedded in the timeless theme of Sex and Death.
In this series of work, I have concentrated on capturing television images of the "pretend" female corpse. The centre piece of the wildly popular forensic crime show genre, she belongs in the same category with Sleeping Beauty, Hamlet's Ophelia, Persephone and all mythical figures of feminine passivity in the extreme.
The current version of the ravaged heroine, is a fetishistic creature of contemporary lust and revulsion portraying a particular kind of Beauty œ motionless, mute, and dead œ a mortiferous object on which to project the collective fears and desires of the viewing public. The banal ugliness of brutality is glamourized in scenes of artfully constructed fictions blurring reality with fantasies of fear, repulsion and desire.
Removed from reality and elegantly restaged, the Brutal is somehow made Aesthetic. Images of Horror are made Beautiful. These paintings are intended to be visually beautiful
and at the same time, subtly disturbing. They are reflections of artificially constructed images of eroticism and death in popular entertainment culture.
This work was created at the Banff Centre for the Arts. The landscape elements are Albertan mountains and skies interrupted by highways and factories. The figurative elements are taken from broadcast television.
Des mesures : 60.96 x 76.2 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 2005
Matériaux : digitally created image, over-painted with cold wax medium and oil paint, printed on watercolour paper
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Man Shot
Artist: Rae Johnson
ID : 71365
Description: "Beautiful Dead Girls", or "Sleeping Beauty"
These paintings are contemplations on current ideals of beauty and desire, taken from the entertainment media, embedded in the timeless theme of Sex and Death.
In this series of work, I have concentrated on capturing television images of the "pretend" female corpse. The centre piece of the wildly popular forensic crime show genre, she belongs in the same category with Sleeping Beauty, Hamlet's Ophelia, Persephone and all mythical figures of feminine passivity in the extreme.
The current version of the ravaged heroine, is a fetishistic creature of contemporary lust and revulsion portraying a particular kind of Beauty œ motionless, mute, and dead œ a mortiferous object on which to project the collective fears and desires of the viewing public. The banal ugliness of brutality is glamourized in scenes of artfully constructed fictions blurring reality with fantasies of fear, repulsion and desire.
Removed from reality and elegantly restaged, the Brutal is somehow made Aesthetic. Images of Horror are made Beautiful. These paintings are intended to be visually beautiful
and at the same time, subtly disturbing. They are reflections of artificially constructed images of eroticism and death in popular entertainment culture.
This work was created at the Banff Centre for the Arts. The landscape elements are Albertan mountains and skies interrupted by highways and factories. The figurative elements are taken from broadcast television.
Des mesures : 60.96 x 76.2 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 2005
Matériaux : digitally created image, over-painted with cold wax medium and oil paint, printed on watercolour paper
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Was she dead…?
Artist: Rae Johnson
ID : 71359
Description: "Beautiful Dead Girls", or "Sleeping Beauty"
These paintings are contemplations on current ideals of beauty and desire, taken from the entertainment media, embedded in the timeless theme of Sex and Death.
In this series of work, I have concentrated on capturing television images of the "pretend" female corpse. The centre piece of the wildly popular forensic crime show genre, she belongs in the same category with Sleeping Beauty, Hamlet's Ophelia, Persephone and all mythical figures of feminine passivity in the extreme.
The current version of the ravaged heroine, is a fetishistic creature of contemporary lust and revulsion portraying a particular kind of Beauty œ motionless, mute, and dead œ a mortiferous object on which to project the collective fears and desires of the viewing public. The banal ugliness of brutality is glamourized in scenes of artfully constructed fictions blurring reality with fantasies of fear, repulsion and desire.
Removed from reality and elegantly restaged, the Brutal is somehow made Aesthetic. Images of Horror are made Beautiful. These paintings are intended to be visually beautiful
and at the same time, subtly disturbing. They are reflections of artificially constructed images of eroticism and death in popular entertainment culture.
This work was created at the Banff Centre for the Arts. The landscape elements are Albertan mountains and skies interrupted by highways and factories. The figurative elements are taken from broadcast television.
Des mesures : 60.96 x 76.2 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 2005
Matériaux : digitally created image, over-painted with cold wax medium and oil paint, printed on watercolour paper
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Bathtub Head
Artist: Rae Johnson
ID : 71364
Description: "Beautiful Dead Girls", or "Sleeping Beauty"
These paintings are contemplations on current ideals of beauty and desire, taken from the entertainment media, embedded in the timeless theme of Sex and Death.
In this series of work, I have concentrated on capturing television images of the "pretend" female corpse. The centre piece of the wildly popular forensic crime show genre, she belongs in the same category with Sleeping Beauty, Hamlet's Ophelia, Persephone and all mythical figures of feminine passivity in the extreme.
The current version of the ravaged heroine, is a fetishistic creature of contemporary lust and revulsion portraying a particular kind of Beauty œ motionless, mute, and dead œ a mortiferous object on which to project the collective fears and desires of the viewing public. The banal ugliness of brutality is glamourized in scenes of artfully constructed fictions blurring reality with fantasies of fear, repulsion and desire.
Removed from reality and elegantly restaged, the Brutal is somehow made Aesthetic. Images of Horror are made Beautiful. These paintings are intended to be visually beautiful
and at the same time, subtly disturbing. They are reflections of artificially constructed images of eroticism and death in popular entertainment culture.
This work was created at the Banff Centre for the Arts. The landscape elements are Albertan mountains and skies interrupted by highways and factories. The figurative elements are taken from broadcast television.
Des mesures : 121.92 x 101.6 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 2005
Matériaux : digitally created image, over-painted with cold wax medium and oil paint, printed on acid free bond paper
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Selkirk – Golden Field
Artist: Rae Johnson
ID : 74493
Description:
Des mesures : 182.88 x 213.36 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 2007
Matériaux : oil on wood panel, braced
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Selkirk – August Clouds
Artist: Rae Johnson
ID : 74496
Description:
Des mesures : 182.88 x 213.36 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 2007
Matériaux : oil on wood panel, braced
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Selkirk – Side Road
Artist: Rae Johnson
ID : 74492
Description:
Des mesures : 182.88 x 243.84 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 2007
Matériaux : oil on wood panel, braced
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Selkirk – Furrows
Artist: Rae Johnson
ID : 74494
Description:
Des mesures : 182.88 x 243.84 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 2007
Matériaux : oil on wood panel, braced
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Selkirk – Ground Shadows
Artist: Rae Johnson
ID : 74495
Description:
Des mesures : 182.88 x 243.84 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 2007
Matériaux : oil on wood panel, braced
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Selkirk – Tornados
Artist: Rae Johnson
ID : 74497
Description:
Des mesures : 182.88 x 213.36 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 2008
Matériaux : oil on wood panel, braced
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Selkirk – Field & Pond
Artist: Rae Johnson
ID : 74498
Description:
Des mesures : 182.88 x 213.36 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 2008
Matériaux : oil on wood panel, braced
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Storm – Lake Winnipeg
Artist: Rae Johnson
ID : 74499
Description:
Des mesures : 182.88 x 213.36 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 2008
Matériaux : oil on wood panel, braced
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Green Aurora
Artist: Rae Johnson
ID : 74501
Description:
Des mesures : 182.88 x 213.36 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 2008
Matériaux : oil on wood panel, braced
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Green Swoop
Artist: Rae Johnson
ID : 74500
Description:
Des mesures : 182.88 x 243.84 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 2008
Matériaux : oil on wood panel, braced
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Northern Lights Winter
Artist: Rae Johnson
ID : 74503
Description:
Des mesures : 182.88 x 243.84 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 2009
Matériaux : oil on wood panel, braced
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Funnel Aurora
Artist: Rae Johnson
ID : 74504
Description:
Des mesures : 182.88 x 243.84 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 2009
Matériaux : oil on wood panel, braced
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Cosmic Aurora
Artist: Rae Johnson
ID : 74502
Description:
Des mesures : 182.88 x 213.36 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 2009
Matériaux : oil on wood panel, braced
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA

