Biography
Daniel A. Johnson was born in 1993 and currently lives and practices art in the state of Utah. During his senior year of high school, he was introduced to art through a photography and AP painting class. After entering Brigham Young University, he was accepted into the Bachelors of Art program in the fall of 2018 and proceeded to earn a spot in the Bachelor of Fine Art program during the fall of 2019. He completed the Bachelor of Fine Art and walked in the April 2022 Ceremony. His personal art practice has continued in his day to day observation and practice.
Artist Statement
In an attempt to understand the world we live in and the worlds that we can escape to, I create structures filled by gradients of color. I use the process of iteration and systematic rules based on a grid system to encounter the worlds that I see fit to establish. The interplay between the structures and the gradients create an illusionistic quality that helps establish that what is perceived to be, may not always be the case. These worlds float upon a background of chaos created by using watercolor, allowing for an organic contrast to the defined system. My work is tedious and can be rendered digitally or translated to a panel becoming an object. The physical objects contain the imperfections of the hand while examined up close, but will become resolved when viewed from a distance.
Exhibitions:
2019
Student Drawing Exhibition, BYU Gallery 303 Foyer, Provo, Utah
2020
Vera Hinkley Mayhew Visual Arts Contest, BYU HFAC 4th Floor, Provo, Utah
USA 35 X 35 CM Art Project, Copelouzos Family Art Museum, Athens, Greece
Painting & Photography Art Exhibition, Art Room Gallery Online, https://www.artroomgalleryonline.com/exhibitions/2020/december_20.html
2021
Vera Hinkley Mayhew Visual Arts Contest, BYU HFAC 4th Floor, Provo, Utah
Artifice & Artifact, B. F. Larsen Gallery, Provo, Utah
Entropy, BYU Gallery 303 Main, Provo, Utah
Eccentricity & Planetesimals, BYU Gallery 303 Main, Provo, Utah (Solo)
Publications
2021
Fall 2021, Inscape Journal, Pg. 38
2020
USA 35 X 35 CM Art Project, Copelouzos Family Art Museum, Pg.449