Rae Johnson

Rae Johnson in her studio in 2018

Rae Johnson (born 1953) is a Canadian painter.

Originally from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Johnson studied at the New School of Art in Toronto from 1975 to 1976 and at the Ontario College of Art from 1977 to 1980. In 1981 she became a founding member of the ChromaZone gallery, an artist collective dedicated to reintroducing figurative painting to Toronto. In 1987 she moved to northern Ontario; the landscapes which she has since produced are reminiscent of the work of the Group of Seven, whose work she had seen at the National Gallery of Canada when she was still a student.[1]

Johnson has been a professor at OCADU since 1987, and has lectured at various institutions, including Zweigstelle Berlin Gallery, University of Toronto, York University (Toronto), and the Banff Center, among others. From 2009-2011 she acted as guest curator for the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, and National Gallery @ MOCCA, providing research for the 2011 historical exhibition "This is Paradise". In 2012, she curated and organized an exhibition of 32 artists from Canada titled TORONTO/BERLIN 1982-2012, hosted by the Zweigstelle Berlin Gallery in Berlin. In 2017, she was selected to be the visual editor of the Theatre Passe Muraille 50th anniversary book, and was recently included in A Concise History of Canadian Painting third edition.[2] She was recently included in Intervention: 31 Women Painters exhibition in Montreal, curated by Harold Klunder. She has shown extensively throughout Toronto and Canada, including yearly solo exhibitions at the Carmen Lamanna Gallery from 1983-1991. She is currently represented by Christopher Cutts Gallery in Toronto.[3]

Rae Johnson's work often deals with dreams and imagination, providing enough detail to recognize figures and spaces but "encourages us to contemplate endings, meanings and loss."[4] In her words:

"I want my paintings to offer a space for the imagination and an affirmation of inner life."[5]

Rae Johnson currently lives in Toronto.

References

  1. ↑ Jules Heller; Nancy G. Heller (19 December 2013). North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-135-63882-5.
  2. ↑ Reid, Dennis (2012). A Concise History of Canadian Painting. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195444568.
  3. ↑ "Christopher Cutts Gallery - Rae Johnson CV". cuttsgallery.com. Retrieved 2018-09-26.
  4. ↑ Whyte, Ewan (2015). Rae Johnson: Interiors. Toronto: Christopher Cutts Gallery. ISBN 978-1-927376-12-6.
  5. ↑ "Rae Johnson: The City press release". September 2018.
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