Douglas Johnson

Student art

Douglas Johnson

My practice seeks to uncover secrets at the heart of pictorial media by making art works positioned at the intersection of analog and digital technology. I am influenced by the history of painting and the history of video games and it is through these lenses that I look for commonalities across various media. My work includes paintings as well as digital media like computer programs and animations. These paintings are borne from a text I wrote imagining paintings as magical creatures and paintings as the environments they survive in. I think the most important part of pictures is something that cannot be seen. I think that the invisible creatures are only in rare and special pictures. They are also for me a comparison of digital space and traditional picture space as seen in paintings. I am interested in traditional dutch painting ideas as well as modern color interpretation based on how rods and cones function in our eyes.