Eirik Johnson's (born in Seattle, 1974) work has been exhibited at venues such as the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, and George Eastman House, Rochester, New York. He has received several awards, including the Santa Fe Prize (2005) and a William J. Fulbright Grant to travel to Peru (1999-2000). His work is held in the collections of the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago; National Fulbright Foundation; and Joseph and Elaine Monsen. His first monograph, Borderlands, was published in 2005. Johnson is represented by G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle, and Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco; he is an assistant professor of photography at Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston, where he resides.
A culmination of four years photographing throughout Oregon, Washington, and Northern California, Eirik Johnson: Sawdust Mountain focuses on the tenuous relationship between industries reliant upon natural resources and the communities they support. Timber and salmon are the bedrock of a regional Northwest identity, but the environmental impact of these industries is increasingly at odds with the contemporary ideal of sustainability. In this exhibition (and the accompanying Aperture book of the same title), Eirik Johnson reveals a landscape imbued with an uncertain future—no longer the region of boomtowns built upon the riches of massive old growth forests.
The exhibition is curated by Elizabeth A. Brown, Chief Curator, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, where the exhibition originated and was on view last Oc...
Artist's Reception and Book Signing: Thursday, January 26, 6:00 to 8:00 pm
Yossi Milo Gallery is pleased to announce “Borderlands,” an exhibition of recent color photographs by Eirik Johnson.The exhibition will open on Thursday, January 26, and close on Saturday, February 25, with a reception for the artist and book signing on Thursday, January 26 from 6:00 to 8:00 pm. This is Mr. Johnson's first solo exhibition in New York.
Eirik Johnson's large color photographs concentrate on the strange, chance beauty that occurs where the fringes of the urban terrain intersect with the natural landscape.Johnson's scenes—formed when man-made structures, such as discarded objects or tire tracks, interact with natural elements such as tides, overgrowth, shafts of light and fire—appear to be carefully arranged but are, i...