#750 + 14 SEPTEMBER 2017 + SPITFIRE + ROAR!!!!! + CATHERINE L. JOHNSON

 

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#741 + MOVING GRACE MOVINGGRACE GRACEMOVING + J.S. Bach/ The six cello suites – Pau Casals / recorded 1936/39

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My hands.

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https://catherineljohnson.wordpress.com/2015/12/17/ipromise-ipromisetotell-ipromisetotellthewhole-ipromisetotellthewholetruth-16-december-2015-catherine-l-johnson-artist-patti-smith-people-have-the-power/

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THE HUMILITY OF GENIUS

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Casals studied the suites for 12 years before

he first offered his rendition to the public.

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He discovered the score by accident in Barcelona at the age of 13

and

later declared that this incident “changed his life”.

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Casals was the first to play all the suites in one concert.

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PRIVATE RHYTHM: MOVING GRACE  (40″ H x 26″ W)                 Catherine L. Johnson  2009

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The PRIVATE RHYTHM series

Catherine L. Johnson

2009

https://catherineljohnson.wordpress.com/2012/04/04/april-4-1968-26-february-2012-new-neuro-pathways-i-believe-beautiful-fortitude/

http://www.mnartists.org/artwork/private-rhythm-beautyisdivineisbeauty-2009X 

 

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 GRACE #8    (40″ H x 26″ W)                                                           Catherine L. Johnson  2017

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The GRACE series

Catherine L. Johnson

2017

https://catherineljohnson.wordpress.com/2017/06/15/737-grace-1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-2017-catherine-l-johnson-pablo-neruda-of-everything-i-have-seen-what-am-i-to-do-love-loved-one/

 

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CATHERINE L. JOHNSON / ARTIST + CATHERINE L. JOHNSON / INTERDISCIPLINARY ARTIST + “BEAUTY IS NOT CAUSED. IT IS.” Emily Dickinson + “My art pursues the beauty of realization rather than perfect beauty.” CATHERINE L. JOHNSON

IPROMISETOTELL                                                            Catherine L. Johnson 2015

IPROMISETOTELL                                                                Catherine L. Johnson  2015

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WOMEN+VERBS+TELLING THE TRUTH+BREATHING WITH SOUL

https://catherineljohnson.wordpress.com/2012/02/03/womenangerverbstelling-the-truth/

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CATHERINE L. JOHNSON / ARTIST + SOCIAL ACTIVIST

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Education:

Macalester College

University of Minnesota

Minneapolis Institute of Art (BFA)

Tyler School of Art, Temple University

Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University (MFA)

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Prestigious Fellowships:

PS. 1 International Studio Residency Fellowship affiliated with MoMA, NYC

– 1 of 41 artists selected worldwide for the prestigious year-long residency  with a stipend provision.

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Bush Artist Fellowship

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Joan Mitchell Artist Fellowship– nominated 3 times – the nomination selection is made in secret by museum curators/gallerists.

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My art is in prominent nationwide and international corporate and private collections.

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Please click on link to view my visuals: 

https://catherineljohnson.art/

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For in-depth information, please click on link:

https://catherineljohnson.wordpress.com/about/

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“BEAUTY IS NOT CAUSED. IT IS.”  

Emily Dickinson

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 The experience/witnessing of my art is likened to viewing a photograph of a lover 

in contrast to reveling in the actual presence of the beloved

-a real commUnIcation.

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So it is with ALL my work: listen to the cadence, the shape, the pause, the movement, and the silence…

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My art pursues the beauty of realization rather than perfect beauty.

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All of my life I have known an inviolable place of inner freedom containing:

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Earth; pieces of washed clear blue skies; brilliant unfolding blooms;

wings of flight;

 the color and arcs of rainbows;

the hallelujah chorus of wind, rain and rivers;

and

the white glistened silence of ice.

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This was my chrysalis:

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My life was baptized in hospitals, a place where time and space was defined

as waiting, compassion and hope.

 No flag of creed, race, religion, gender, or social rank was raised. 

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We were all horizontal breathing beds. I lived in a body cast with a shaven head. 

Visitors were allowed once a week for two hours and touching was forbidden

– like an art museum with limited hours. 

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I was born a broken Ming vase

re-created with expert hands

and

I was set on fire with love.

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My art offers the viewer the transcendent moment of an epiphany. 

The moment when one’s heart is suddenly set open and rapt

and when all the senses are heralded and keen.

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My art is I/ ThoU – the sacred, sensuous dialogue of call + response, an intimate dance unfolds

and the gospel song is:

“I see you- you, an unrepeatable field of gold”.  

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My art is improvisational-attending to both the sound of the silver horn within the wilderness of my soul

– and in response/dialogue with the external world.

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Thank you

to my collaborative ensemble of medical creative genius

– from birth up to this naked moment:

https://catherineljohnson.wordpress.com/2021/07/24/1022-24-july-2021-91f%f0%9f%8c%9e-ipromisetotell-re-set-ad-just-ad-apt-i-see-you-i-am-here/

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in the studio – March 2022

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PATTI SMITH

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CHARLES LLOYD

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9ydZwBB29c

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdSHxaC2NWw

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IPROMISETOTELL                                                                 Catherine L. Johnson 2015

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ABOVE:

THE TRACING OF MY RIGHT HAND

–MY CONDUIT/ MY INSTRUMENT/ MY DIVINING ROD

TO TELL THE TRUTH.

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SEEARTISTSEE                                                                       Catherine L. Johnson  2016

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