The works in this exhibit combine paintings made at the artist’s home in Baltimore County, alongside paintings made in Chianti, Italy, where Johnson is a frequently artist-in-residence at the La Macina diSan Cresi residency program. The Italian works stand in contrast to the Maryland works with their heavier architecture framing a rolling agricultural landscape dominated by cultural history, while the Baltimore paintings juxtapose the artist’s domestic space with the exterior world of his local community. With close observation at the core of Johnson’s work, both sets of paintings explore how a slight shift in vantage point can reveal a new world. By incorporating windows and doors within each composition, the paintings expose their duality as both opening and barrier and offer interpretations of the landscape that embrace fiction alongside documentation. These frames within a frame offer opportunities to focus on interior and exterior worlds simultaneously, merging static curated environments with worlds that are in constant evolution.
Exhibition dates: March 5th, 2026 – May 24th, 2026
Opening Reception and Artist Talk, Saturday, March 21st, 2pm-3:30pm
This exhibition is presented in conjunction with the two-day painting workshop, Navigating Change in Landscape Painting on April 25-26, 2026. Space is limited so please register soon!
Teddy Johnson’s previous solo exhibitions include: The Matney Gallery, The American Poetry Museum, The Bromo Seltzer Arts Tower, MK Gallery, and the Museum of the Shenandoah Valley. His work has also been exhibited at Art Gwangju, the Pearl Museum of Fine Art, Studio 39, Current Space, the Peale Museum, and St. Charles Projects. He completed artist residencies at La Macina di San Cresi in Chianti Italy in 2022, 23, 24 and 25. His paintings have been featured on TV in Fox 45’s Hometown Hotspot and in print in publications including Baltimore Style Magazine. Teddy is currently the Academic Chair of Visual Arts and an Associate Professor of Art at Anne Arundel Community College, where he also served as the Cade Gallery Director from 2017-23. His education includes a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art, an MFA from The Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of Georgia, and two semesters of study in Cortona, Italy.