Description
‘Navel’ by James W Johnson
Artist: James W Johnson
Title: ‘Navel’
Medium: Oil and acrylic on gessoed birch panel
Dimensions: 13″ x 10.5″ x 0.25″
Framing: Framed in a handmade poplar frame (frame size: 14.5″ x 12″ x 1″)
Year of Creation: 2023
About the Artwork:
“The navel is closely associated with the beginning of human life and serves as a closed portal between the inner and outer person that can only be breeched with contemplation and imagination; i.e. navel gazing. Visually, I think it is the most sensuous feature of the human body.” – James W Johnson
About the Artist:
(Artist Bio)
James W Johnson was born and raised in Upstate NY and moved to Lubbock, Texas in 1978. He received an MFA from Texas Tech University in 1981 and has continued to live in Lubbock as a studio artist. Johnson has spent about 90,000 hours making more than 2,000 art for almost 50 years. While being primarily a painter, he has produced a complex body of work in a wide variety of mediums such painting, drawing, sculpture, etching, video, digital, mixed media and furniture. He has participated in over 200 exhibitions worldwide and over 1,000 of his pieces of artwork are included in hundreds of public and private collections.
Living ‘outside’ of the mainstream art world has allowed James to perfect his craft and independently pursue an impressive flow of ideas and images that defy categorization, yet present his observations about art and life from his unique perspective.