Nicholas William Johnson HI, USA, b. 1982
Biography
Nicholas William Johnson’s recent research focuses on plant consciousness, which is not only a topic of interest in ancient mythologies and indigenous shamanic knowledge, but also in current academic studies. Johnson’s paintings can be described as lush “jungles”, with ripe fruit connoting an unabashed sensuality and an abundance of color that is titillating to the eye. With these works Johnson seems to attempt to unite the “binary split” which the Enlightenment caused – that “gulf in perception” that divides human and plant consciousness.
Works
Exhibitions
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'Aesthetic Echoes'
PLUS-ONE GALLERY (SOUTH) 16 May - 16 Jun 2024With Aesthetic Echoes, PLUS-ONE Gallery wants to revive the appreciation, intimacy and ritual of the iconic format. Through paying homage to the significance of the album cover artwork, while embracing...Read more -
'FACE TIME'
PLUS-ONE GALLERY (NEW SOUTH) 25 Nov 2023 - 7 Jan 2024A genre with such extensive history like portraiture, proves to be a generous, yet challenging subject matter for an ambitious and playful group show. FACE TIME presents a large-scale selection...Read more -
INTERSTATE OF MIND
PLUS-ONE GALLERY (NEW SOUTH) 25 Feb - 26 Mar 2023Jenny Brosinski, Corydon Cowansage, Max Frintrop, Tatjana Gerhard, Nicholas William Johnson, Judit Kristensen, Jean-Pierre Temmerman, Julia Trybala, Sharon Van Overmeiren The group exhibition INTERSTATE OF MIND was born from the...Read more -
Infinite Flowers, part 4
PLUS-ONE GALLERY (NEW SOUTH) 25 Jun - 21 Aug 2022A blooming group show about the infinite inspiration of flowers 25.06 - 21.08.22 “From the oval-shaped flower-bed there rose perhaps a hundred stalks spreading into heart-shaped or tongue-shaped leaves half...Read more
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Proof of Work, What's at Stake?
PLUS-ONE GALLERY (SOUTH) 26 May - 26 Jun 2022During Antwerp Art Weekend, PLUS-ONE Gallery will presents under the title “Proof of Work - What’s at Stake?”, an exhibition dedicated to digital art and will it explore the possibilities...Read more -
Nicholas William Johnson, 'They Regard Us As We Regard Them'
PLUS-ONE GALLERY, (NEW SOUTH) 16 Oct - 21 Nov 2021‘A Pure and Rigorous Aesthetic’ The botanist Francis Hallé observes that, ‘plants elaborate themselves according to strict rules, rules that lead to the conceptualisation of models’. The dynamics of these...Read more -
Groupshow L'Heure Bleue (Part I)
PLUS-ONE GALLERY , (NEW SOUTH) 9 Jun - 23 Aug 2020L’heure bleue is that moment when the sun has set, but the night has not fallen yet. This phenomenon of the blue hour takes place just before sunrise or sunset,...Read more -
Groupshow 'Looking at the world through rose coloured glasses'
PLUS-ONE GALLERY, (NEW SOUTH) 19 Jan - 3 Mar 2019Looking At The World Through Rose Coloured Glasses, is: Adam Leech - Andy Warhol - Antwan Horfee – Arman - Bendt Eyckermans - Beni Bischof - Benny Van den Meulengracht-Vrancx...Read more
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Guillaume Bijl, Nicholas W Johnson, Stephanie Hier, Vivien Zhang 'BE:YO:ND'
PLUS-ONE GALLERY, (NEW SOUTH) 20 Oct - 18 Nov 2018BE:YO:ND Groupshow with Guillaume Bijl - Nicholas William Johnson - Stephanie Hier - Vivien Zhang We live in a network culture. The current times are no longer easy to define...Read more -
Soft? Tactile Dialogues in Collaboration with MOMU
28 Sep - 27 Oct 2018'Soft? Tactile Dialogues' is about the freedom with which artists move between various media, about unexpected textile applications, about tactility and aversion, and about the textures and the skin of...Read more -
Groupshow 'Everybody Loves The Sunshine'
PLUS-ONE GALLERY, (NEW SOUTH) 30 Jun - 19 Aug 2018Andy Warhol, Amélie Bouvier, Beni Bischof, Cleon Peterson, Georgina Gratrix, Karin Hanssen, Kasper De Vos, Koen Van den Broek, Max Pinckers, Mike Bouchet, Nicholas William Johnson, Sergio De Beukelaer, Sven...Read more -
Groupshow 'Lust, Laughter, Liquor, Art Brussels 2018'
PLUS-ONE GALLERY, (ART BRUSSELS) 19 - 22 Apr 2018Collaborating booth with Gallery Sofie Van de Velde.Read more
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Group Show 'Lust, Laughter & Liquor'
PLUS-ONE GALLERY, (NEW SOUTH) 22 Mar - 6 May 2018Groupshow - In collaboration with Gallery Sofie Van de Velde Lust, Laughter & Liquor, is the first jointly curated exhibition with Gallery Sofie Van de Velde in their shared space...Read more -
Group Show 'Rewind-Forward'
PLUS-ONE GALLERY, (BERCHEM) 17 Dec 2017 - 28 Jan 2018Happy +2 Years of PLUS-ONE Gallery. A group show featuring the exhibited artists (solo shows) at the gallery (2016-2017) Reception 17.12.17 3-7pm at PLUS-ONE Gallery Berchem (other dates by appointment...Read more -
Nicholas William Johnson 'Inns Of Molten Blue'
PLUS-ONE GALLERY, (NEW SOUTH) 26 Oct - 2 Dec 2017Nicholas William Johnson Inns of Molten Blue Nicholas William Johnson paints flowers. Floral motifs are traditionally associated with the decorative or naive, but in Johnson's case, this would be an...Read more -
Groupshow #infiniteflowersplusone #3
PLUS-ONE GALLERY, (NEW SOUTH) 2 Jul - 18 Aug 2017The 3rd accrochage of this exciting project and exhibition(s) about the infinite inspiration of flowers for contemporary artists. With: Antwan Horfee - Beni Bischof - Bernd Lohaus - C. Arocha...Read more
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CORE Festival x PLUS-ONE Gallery
May 27, 2023CORE Festival's dazzling NABO stage, located in the heart of the festival at 8.5 meters high, has been entrusted to five digital artists, carefully selected...Read more -
Nicholas William Johnson at Foreign & Domestic
November 11, 2022Nicholas William Johnson presents a new series of paintings and a sequence of animations played on convex glass screens. The shows title Apparatus refers to...Read more