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 frequent artist-in-residence at the La Macina di San Cresci 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 31st, 2026
Opening Reception and Artist Talk, Saturday, March 21st, 2pm-3:30pm