Jay mark Johnson
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« No Such Place » by Jay Mark Johnson at the Boutwell Draper Gallery
Jay Mark Johnson’s current Spacetime photographic series began with rudimentary experiments in 2005. Over the course of this project he increasingly applies the full range of his experiences, from visual arts and cinema to studies in the anthropological and cognitive sciences.
In order to understand the large-format photographs of American artist Jay Mark Johnson it is crucial to grasp their underlying paradox : while the images are created purely photographically, without digital manipulation or staging of a scene, and therefore depict actual events, they still create a perfectly illusory pictorial world. Johnson employs a modified camera which over a set period of time keeps recording the same narrow vertical strip in front of the camera lens and combines the successive photographs into an uninterrupted i... - Exposition
Jay Mark Johnson - Space Time
Ace Gallery presents a selection of photographic artworks by Jay Mark Johnson spanning four series: Motion Studies, Anachronistic Nature, Topological Shifts, and Spacetime Cityscapes and Landscapes. Johnson produces photographic images that challenge the norms of perception. Employing a process that is distinct from conventional photography, he creates works that merge the recording of space and time into a single, linear “spacetime” continuum. The resulting photographs are akin to both seismographs and electrocardiograms in that, as timelines, they begin on the left and end on the right. The horizontal length of the image conveys an uninterrupted and fluid measurement of a brief span of time, varying in duration from 10 seconds up to 45 minutes.
Johnson approaches this work as an open-e... - Exposition
Jay Mark Johnson Motion Studies
Jay Mark Johnson is a film director with broad experience in visual effects production, having supervised and/or directed the computer generated imagery for nearly a dozen major studio films and television series. Noted for his work in architecture and design, he has projects in the permanent collection of the MOMA (NYC), as well as at the Smithonian Institution and the Art Institue of Chicago.
Johnson's varied and prolific career also spans theatre and performance art, journalism, live musical performance, and photography.
"Motion Studies" is the first major solo show.
"'Motion Studies' focuses on capturing and representing the continuous movements of the body. By isolating discreet gestures, they attempt to develop distinct, fluid delineations of bodily motion. In so doing, the works expand upon... - Exposition
Jay Mark Johnson Swept Away
In his large-format photographs, the American artist Jay Mark Johnson (born 1955) presents sequences of movement. In a process developed by the artist himself, he employs a specially modified camera, which records but a narrow vertical plane in front of the camera lens. While the images retain a spatial dimension in their vertical axis, the horizontal axis is dedicated to a depiction of the passage of time. The camera thus produces an image flowing evenly from left to right. Although the picture is created digitally, it is not digitally manipulated. Rather it is a true indexical recording of a concrete movement. Johnson's photographs become a series of "action paintings" revealing the progressive patterns of the gestures and movements themselves. The hybrid combination of spatial and temporal dimensions creates... - Exposition
Jay Mark Johnson - Tempo Lineare
Jay Mark Johnson's remarkable large-scale photographs and photo-collages are about space and time, and paradoxically, in the case of the images in this exhibition, about space and timelessness. He takes subjects that have engaged the imagination of artists for centuries‹the bustle of the piazza, the routines of the countryside‹and transforms them, employing the technology of the computer age, into visual narratives that astonish the eye. In this newly-minted world, the familiar co-exists fruitfully with the pictorially startling. A horse is led across an abstract landscape made up of attenuated filaments of vivid color. A swimmer advances through water that seems to refract light both optically and digitally.
The technique Johnson uses to produce these images is known as slit-scan photography. In the past it has b... - Exposition
Jay Mark Johnson - Motion Studies
In his series Tai Chi Motion Studies, the American artist Jay Mark Johnson (born 1955) presents photographs of movement. In a process developed by the artist himself, he employs a specially modified camera. While the images retain a spatial dimension in their vertical axis, the horizontal axis is dedicated to a depiction of the passage of time. The camera thus produces an image flowing evenly from left to right. Although the picture is created digitally, it is not digitally manipulated. Rather it is a true indexical recording of a concrete movement.
Johnson does not direct the depicted actors, dancers, martial arts performers et al., but allows them to chose movements from within their own disciplines. In the case of the Tai Chi Motion Studies, the form of the depiction is particularly suited to its content, for t...
Modifier l'image
Jay Mark Johnson’s current Spacetime photographic series began with rudimentary experiments in 2005. Over the course of this project he increasingly applies the full range of his experiences, from visual arts and cinema to studies in the anthropological and cognitive sciences.
In order to understand the large-format photographs of American artist Jay Mark Johnson it is crucial to grasp their underlying paradox : while the images are created purely photographically, without digital manipulation or staging of a scene, and therefore depict actual events, they still create a perfectly illusory pictorial world. Johnson employs a modified camera which over a set period of time keeps recording the same narrow vertical strip in front of the camera lens and combines the successive photographs into an uninterrupted i...
Ace Gallery presents a selection of photographic artworks by Jay Mark Johnson spanning four series: Motion Studies, Anachronistic Nature, Topological Shifts, and Spacetime Cityscapes and Landscapes. Johnson produces photographic images that challenge the norms of perception. Employing a process that is distinct from conventional photography, he creates works that merge the recording of space and time into a single, linear “spacetime” continuum. The resulting photographs are akin to both seismographs and electrocardiograms in that, as timelines, they begin on the left and end on the right. The horizontal length of the image conveys an uninterrupted and fluid measurement of a brief span of time, varying in duration from 10 seconds up to 45 minutes.
Johnson approaches this work as an open-e...
Jay Mark Johnson is a film director with broad experience in visual effects production, having supervised and/or directed the computer generated imagery for nearly a dozen major studio films and television series. Noted for his work in architecture and design, he has projects in the permanent collection of the MOMA (NYC), as well as at the Smithonian Institution and the Art Institue of Chicago.
Johnson's varied and prolific career also spans theatre and performance art, journalism, live musical performance, and photography.
"Motion Studies" is the first major solo show.
"'Motion Studies' focuses on capturing and representing the continuous movements of the body. By isolating discreet gestures, they attempt to develop distinct, fluid delineations of bodily motion. In so doing, the works expand upon...
In his large-format photographs, the American artist Jay Mark Johnson (born 1955) presents sequences of movement. In a process developed by the artist himself, he employs a specially modified camera, which records but a narrow vertical plane in front of the camera lens. While the images retain a spatial dimension in their vertical axis, the horizontal axis is dedicated to a depiction of the passage of time. The camera thus produces an image flowing evenly from left to right. Although the picture is created digitally, it is not digitally manipulated. Rather it is a true indexical recording of a concrete movement. Johnson's photographs become a series of "action paintings" revealing the progressive patterns of the gestures and movements themselves. The hybrid combination of spatial and temporal dimensions creates...
Jay Mark Johnson's remarkable large-scale photographs and photo-collages are about space and time, and paradoxically, in the case of the images in this exhibition, about space and timelessness. He takes subjects that have engaged the imagination of artists for centuries‹the bustle of the piazza, the routines of the countryside‹and transforms them, employing the technology of the computer age, into visual narratives that astonish the eye. In this newly-minted world, the familiar co-exists fruitfully with the pictorially startling. A horse is led across an abstract landscape made up of attenuated filaments of vivid color. A swimmer advances through water that seems to refract light both optically and digitally.
The technique Johnson uses to produce these images is known as slit-scan photography. In the past it has b...
In his series Tai Chi Motion Studies, the American artist Jay Mark Johnson (born 1955) presents photographs of movement. In a process developed by the artist himself, he employs a specially modified camera. While the images retain a spatial dimension in their vertical axis, the horizontal axis is dedicated to a depiction of the passage of time. The camera thus produces an image flowing evenly from left to right. Although the picture is created digitally, it is not digitally manipulated. Rather it is a true indexical recording of a concrete movement.
Johnson does not direct the depicted actors, dancers, martial arts performers et al., but allows them to chose movements from within their own disciplines. In the case of the Tai Chi Motion Studies, the form of the depiction is particularly suited to its content, for t...