Elizabeth Johnson

Elizabeth Johnson starts from pictures: fields, houses, faces, ships, animals, water. She photographs them, warps them on the computer, prints them out, and paints from the wreckage. On the canvas the fragments never settle into one scene. A picture splits open, and its pieces take turns coming forward, the way a dream stays familiar for a second after you wake and then slips away.

The newest paintings come out of caring for her mother, who had dementia for twelve years. They carry, in her words, “feelings of loss and relief.”

Dream Gap is Elizabeth’s first solo exhibition in New York. It brings these new canvases together with paintings from 2021 on.