Chris Johanson

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Chris Johanson

• The Messenger

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The Beginning

• Born in 1968
• Lives and works in Mission District in San
  Francisco
• Never had any formal training in art
• Career began by painting skateboards and houses

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Artwork

• Uses acrylic paint
• Usually paints onto wood
• Paints 3 dimensional creations
• Very unique and real
• best known for his dead-on portraits of street
  culture and the hippies and drunkards who inhabit
  it.

Untitled, 2001 Acrylic on paper
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Inspiration

• Commercial culture
• Society
• Everyday life
• Chaos

Untitled (Heads), 2000Acrylic on birch panel60"
x 60"
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The Messenger
Art is really about sharing information and
ideas, thats more important than the artist. -
Johanson

• Always a message in his artwork
• Claims he is a documentary painter
• People should look at artwork and learn something

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Mirror

• Mirror, 2003
• Acrylic and mirror on wood
• 42 x 48 x 4 ½

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Cityscape

• Cityscape, 2003
• acrylic on wood, 97" x 96 1/2"
• Attached paintings      
  House, 17 1/2" x 16"
• Grey Box, 17" x 17"

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• Untitled, 2002
• Acrylic on paper
• Society and Commercial culture

• Abstract Painting, 2003
• Acrylic on wood
• 27 x 19 x 3
• chaos