Posts Tagged: madness

NJ Emerging Artist Series solo show, “Grid Paintings”

Images of the Nilson Gallery at Monmouth Museum in Lincroft, NJ, currently hosting a cohesive body of paintings by Michael Burris Johnson

NJ Emerging Artist Series solo show, “Grid Paintings”

Images of the Nilson Gallery at Monmouth Museum in Lincroft, NJ, currently hosting a cohesive body of paintings by Michael Burris Johnson

Madness

Painting by Michael Burris Johnson, 2015

Madness

Painting by Michael Burris Johnson, 2015

On Doubt – Vilém Flusser

The web as a structure of reality in Vilém Flusser’s book On Doubt

On Doubt – Vilém Flusser

The web as a structure of reality in Vilém Flusser’s book On Doubt

Passages on the Grid

Passages on the Grid   3 modes of thought             FOREWORD This writing is an exercise of reflection on the grid as a form of expression in painting. The distinctions that are created in this writing are distinctions that

Passages on the Grid

Passages on the Grid   3 modes of thought             FOREWORD This writing is an exercise of reflection on the grid as a form of expression in painting. The distinctions that are created in this writing are distinctions that

Artist’s Statement on Grid Paintings

Artist’s Statement on “Grid Paintings”   These paintings sustain a faith in the transformative capability of art. The artistic pursuit through this work is about embodying principles and values that demand a concentration of will: patience, endurance, consistency. The practice

Artist’s Statement on Grid Paintings

Artist’s Statement on “Grid Paintings”   These paintings sustain a faith in the transformative capability of art. The artistic pursuit through this work is about embodying principles and values that demand a concentration of will: patience, endurance, consistency. The practice

Madness

  Madness only exists within reason, as unreason Madness is identified in the figure of the madman The madman, is kept in a space of confinement within order, similar to the way the concept of madness is held in place by a larger

Madness

  Madness only exists within reason, as unreason Madness is identified in the figure of the madman The madman, is kept in a space of confinement within order, similar to the way the concept of madness is held in place by a larger

Notes on Painting, 2013

Notes, 2013 I have become deeply engaged in a pursuit in painting. I am pursuing the creation of art. Art seems to me the best example of our ability to come closer to what lies just beyond life: the eternal,

Notes on Painting, 2013

Notes, 2013 I have become deeply engaged in a pursuit in painting. I am pursuing the creation of art. Art seems to me the best example of our ability to come closer to what lies just beyond life: the eternal,

Fear and Trembling – Søren Kierkegaard

     Fear and Trembling is a work written by Søren Kierkegaard, under the pseudonym Johannes De Silentio.  Kierkegaard published most of his work under different pseudonyms, taking the dialectical form of Hegel and stretching it out over his oeuvre,

Fear and Trembling – Søren Kierkegaard

     Fear and Trembling is a work written by Søren Kierkegaard, under the pseudonym Johannes De Silentio.  Kierkegaard published most of his work under different pseudonyms, taking the dialectical form of Hegel and stretching it out over his oeuvre,

Cage

Cage – 2013 – 30’x45′ – Oil on Canvas This is a painting based off of a black and white photo of Michel Foucault in his study. I don’t think that this information has to be known for the image

Cage

Cage – 2013 – 30’x45′ – Oil on Canvas This is a painting based off of a black and white photo of Michel Foucault in his study. I don’t think that this information has to be known for the image

MADNESS – Michel Foucault

“One day, perhaps, we will no longer know what madness was. Its form will have closed up on itself, and the traces it will have left will no longer be intelligible. To the ignorant glance, will those traces be anything

MADNESS – Michel Foucault

“One day, perhaps, we will no longer know what madness was. Its form will have closed up on itself, and the traces it will have left will no longer be intelligible. To the ignorant glance, will those traces be anything