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Merritt Johnson (born 1977) [1] [2] is an American contemporary artist, often centering her work on Native American themes. [3] Early life and education. Johnson was born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1977. [1] [2] [4] Her love for art began when she was very young when she discovered a book with Picasso 's paintings. [5]
Jul 28, 2016 · Art Talk with Merritt Johnson. Jul 28, 2016. By Victoria Hutter. Still from Exorcising America: Mouth Exercises by Merritt Johnson. Merritt Johnson is a multidisciplinary artist who incorporates performance into her practice in addition to painting, sculpture, and video.
Jul 1, 2014 · Too many people think only of “beads and feathers” when they hear the term Native American art, says Merritt Johnson, a multi-disciplinary artist of Mohawk and Blackfoot descent. But her...
Nov 19, 2018 · Merritt Johnson is one of these artists who breaks boundaries in how Native American art is perceived. Johnson is of Kanienkehaka (Mohawk), Blackfoot, Irish, and Swedish heritage.
Nov 24, 2021 · Merritt Johnson’s work is a navigation of periphery, intersectionality, separation and connection. Her multidisciplinary works are containers for thought and feeling. For two decades Johnson has focused her work toward destroying the oppression of bodies, land, sex, and culture.
artist. ＞. Merritt Johnson is an artist whose work navigates the spaces between bodies and the body politic, land and cultures, using various materials and processes. Her work focuses on allegiance and agency to land, water, culture, and bodies subjected to violence and control by anthropocentric, cis-hetero patriarchy, and white supremacy.
Jan 25, 2017 · When Fresno State’s Center for Creativity and the Arts started tapping artists to participate in its latest series of art exhibitions, the original intention was to showcase diverse works by Native...
