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M. Scott Johnson's Details
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Hometown:
Inkster,michigan
Ethnicity:
Black / African descent
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Scorpio
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Visual Artist
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About me: Visual Artist,
current- Teaching residency visual arts, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture- Harlem.........Stone Sculptor,Painter,Digital found object Artist, Educator....................
Artist Statement:
Atavistic memory? This question drives me to understand my own unique stylization and ethnic endowment. The concept that our aesthetic choices are bio-cultural has provided me tremendous exploratory avenues.My work is a reflection of the Atavistic Memory of the African shaped in the post-industrial landscape of metro Detroit. The subject of my work lies within the four boundaries of anthropology, universal beauty, cathartic anger and revisionist history........................................
BIO:
New York sculptor M. Scott Johnson was born October 26, 1968 in Inkster, Michigan.Choosing to gain a wide range of knowledge while in college, Scott began his formal western education studying both geology and geography. Eventually, Johnson was introduced to cultural anthropology as student under African-American anthropologist, Dr. Warren Perry. Perry was influential in helping Scott to become a participant in Operation Crossroads Africa , serving as a member of its first group to enter post-apartheid South Africa in 1994.
Scott’s education as a sculptor began in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. While there he studied traditional and contemporary stone sculpting under the tutelage of the local artists who occupied the endless alleyways of the city. Johnson’s greatest opportunity came when he was invited to apprentice (1996-1999) with master sculptor and national hero, Nicholas Mukomberanwa (1940-2002). Under Mukomberanwa, Johnson explored more than just the techniques of sculpting, it became a period of great cultural rediscovery. In describing his experience, Scott says, “ Mukomberawa helped me to develop a metaphysical correlation in my work, which helped me severe my ties to the West’s fixed imagination. He showed me how to become a conduit - rhythmic with my creative intuition. My observations led me to communicate honestly with the visible and invisible around my sculpture”. Scott’s work lies between the crosshairs of visual art and cultural anthropology. His work exalts non-linear composition, shifts perception and gives new vision. Driven to comprehend the relationship of rhythm and line in the African Diaspora, Scott’s latest work has been the result a fusion of African American asymmetry, and the material culture of Afro-maroon communities in Suriname and Guyana.
As a sculptor, Johnson transforms his ancient medium with profound purity. The intricate weaving of organic shapes creates a dynamism that releases deep-seeded angst and passion. The blueprint to which Scott’s work adheres is derived from what he describes as a combination of Atavistic imagery, and the influence of his early contact with Detroit Afro-Techno music. While the influence of Mukomberanwa’s artistic talents are evident in Scott’s work, demonstrated by the power of its expression, the highly stylized imagery is uniquely his own. Johnson’s work has been exhibited in galleries across the United States and internationally including the National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Harvard,Columbia and New York Universities. His sculptures are in numerous private collections, most notably the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and the Hampton University Museum where his seminal piece “The Judgment of Peter Norton”, is included permanent exhibit “ Two hundred Years of Art from the Hampton University Museum”. Scott recently was awarded The Vicktor Lowenfeld sculpture prize presented by The Hampton University Museum.....................................C.V.:
2006
New York University / Washington Square East Galleries, New York, Ny
“29th annual Small Works” Curator, Jack Shainman, Director Jack Shainman Gallery
2005
Columbia University/ LeRoy Neiman Gallery, New York, NY
“Harlem Is” a look at the Visual Artist in Harlem’s second renaissance.
Curator, Dr. Ademola Olugebefola
Hampton University Museum, Hampton, VA
“New Power Generation 2005“-a national juried exhibition
and survey of African American Art since the millennium.
Juror, Marianetta Porter University of Michigan
Curator, Vanessa Thaxton-Ward
awarded the Dr. Vicktor Lowenfeld sculpture prize
Lincoln Center /The Cork Gallery, New York, New York
“Claimed Space”, a multi-media collaboration with The Junior Scholars program at the
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Curator, Leyton Lewis
Lincoln Center /Aaron Davis Hall, New York, New York
“The Pupil’s Truth Cosmogram-Communications from The African Burial Ground 2005”
a multi-media collaboration with The Fredrick Douglas Academy 2 and Community Works Inc.
2004
Embassy of the Republic of Ghana, Washington D.C., “Atavistic Memory /African American Art” Curators, Myrtis Bedolla and Dr. Kwaku Ofori-Ansa
Wilber Jennings Gallery, New York, NY “ Rhythm of Structure:
The Mathematical Aesthetic in the African Diaspora” curator, Joe Overstreet
Hampton University, Hampton, VA
Solo exhibition and lecture, “The African American Atavistic Memory”
Harvard University, Boston, MA “Of Color” Black arts festival,
Adams House Art Space. Curator, Briahna Joy Gray
2003
TransAfrica Forum, Washington, D.C. “Viewpoint Lecture Series:
Perspectives from Africa and the Diaspora, Solo exhibition and lecture” curator, Myrtis Bedolla
Nigel Hamill Gallery, New York, NY “Deviations” curator, Jon Tomlinson
2002
Hampton University Museum, Hampton, VA
“The New Power Generation -The first national juried exhibition
Of African American Art at the millennium”
Wilber Jennings Gallery, New York, NY
“Conference, Artist of Color responding to 9-11-01” curator, Joe Overstreet
National Black Fine Arts Show, The Puck Building, New York, NY
2001
Kenkeleba House, New York, NY “African American Art of the 19th and 20th Century” Curator, Corrine Jennings
Atmosphere Gallery, group show Soho New York, NY Curator, D. Hamilton Martin
2000
National Black Fine Arts Show, The Puck Building, New York, NY
1999
Union Station, Washington D.C. “The African American Sculptor”
Pacific Bridge Gallery, Oakland, CA “ Si Si Kwa Si Si “
National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe group show
CBGB’s Bar, New York, NY “ The fable Of the stone sculptor” performance work.
Bibliography / Lectures
2005
Publication: International Review of African American Art, “post-black “post-soul” defining the new Aesthetics, winner of the Dr. Vicktor Lowenfeld sculpture prize Vol. 20, No. 2.
Publication: The New York Amsterdam News, “Schomburg Scholars exhibit at
Lincoln Center” New York, New York article by Damaso Reyes
· Publication: The New York Amsterdam News , “What ‘Harlem is…”article by Damaso Reyes
· Publication: The Daily News, “Harlemania” review of Harlem is exhibition, article by
Clem Richardson. New York, New York.
Lecture: “ Love and Hate” the art of M. Scott Johnson. Virginia Technical University
Blacksburg,VA
2004
Lecture: “My Atavistic Imagination ”African Heritage Studies Association 37th Annual International Conference
Article: The Black Suburban Journal; “Taking Black Sculpture to Greater Heights” Pennsylvania; Delaware and New Jersey Editions
Publication: International Review of African American Art, “Rhythm of Structure” Vol.19.no3 Lecture: Hampton University Museum, “The Atavistic Memory”
Publication: Afrique Newsmagazine, “Voices in the Stone” by Afua osei Bonsu Chicago, IL
Catalog: Hampton University Museum, Hampton, VA “New Power Generation 2005“-a national juried exhibition and survey of African American Art since the millennium.
2003
Lecture: TransAfrica Forum, “The Atavistic Memory” Washington, D.C.
Lecture: The Schomburg Center For Research in Black Culture, Junior Scholars Program, New York, NY
Publication: International Review of African American Art “Private Show” juried exhibition in print
1998
Publication: Miami Herald, Knight Ridder Publications, “Spirit of the Stone”, Interview with foreign correspondent Neely Tucker concerning my apprenticeship
with Nicholas Mukomberanwa conducted in Harare, Zimbabwe
Collections
The Hampton University Museum, “Two Hundred years of Art
from The Hampton University Museum“, permanent collection Hampton, VA
The Schomburg Center Research in Black Culture, New York, NY
Courtesy of Mr. Carlyle Leach
Kenkelaba House New York, Ny
Teaching/Residencies
Residency : Incollaboration Inc. New York, NY 2005
Residency : Community works Inc. New York, NY 2005
The Educational Alliance Art School, New York, NY 2004
Stone Sculpture Instructor
The Schomburg Center For Research in Black Culture, New York, NY 2003-5 Sculpture Instructor, Junior Scholars Program,
New York City African Burial Ground Project, New York, NY 2001-2
Public Art Educator/lecturer
Operation Crossroads Africa, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe 1994
Volunteer
Education
Boaz Vaddia, Sculptor, New York, NY 2000
Assistant Sculptor/Monumental stonework
Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI 2000
B.A.
Amana Johnson, Sculptor, Oakland, CA 1999
Assistant Sculptor/monumental stonework
Nicholas Mukomberanwa, Sculptor, Ruwa, Zimbabwe 1996-99
Apprenticeship
Independent study in Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia, DZimbabwe,Mozambique : Member ALPHA PHI ALPHA inc.
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