Stephen T. Johnson will present a Visiting Artist Lecture at 3 p.m. Wednesday, March 1, in Agenstein Hall, room 324, on the campus of 含羞草社区. Johnson鈥檚 lecture is free and open to the public.
Johnson is a highly versatile American artist whose visually arresting and conceptually rich body of work forges connections between words, objects and ideas. His work can be seen in museum and gallery exhibitions, site-specific public art commissions and through his original award-winning children鈥檚 books.
Much of Johnson鈥檚 work is characterized by an interest in the alphabet and language, which began with his book 鈥淎lphabet City,鈥� a Caldecott Honor and New York Times Best Illustrated Book of the Year. His most recent engagement with the alphabet is his ongoing series of 鈥渓iteral abstractions鈥� which are the subject of his book 鈥淎 is for Art: An Abstract Alphabet,鈥� also a New York Times Best Illustrated Book of the Year.
Johnson鈥檚 drawings and paintings are in numerous private and permanent collections, including the Smithsonian鈥檚 National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., and the New Britain Museum of Art in Connecticut. His public art includes a large mosaic mural at the DeKalb Avenue subway station in Brooklyn, New York, and a 58-foot long mural at the Universal City Metro Station in North Hollywood, California.
For more information on Johnson and his work, visit . His guest lecture is made possible by a grant from the 含羞草社区 Foundation.
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