Erick Johnson’s abstract paintings explore the synergy between color and form. Irregular shapes stack and slide together, building walls of reverberating color. Opaque and translucent bands of color play against each other, creating rhythm and movement.
The compositions feel active rather than fixed. The shapes become worlds of their own, grazing one another and pressing against the picture’s edge. They are both grounded and moving - structured geometry animated by color. To Johnson the shapes “often straddle the line between object and opening, construction and evolution.”
