Studio Montclair announces “Remembering David Johnston (1933-2016),” an exhibition on view from May 19 to July 28, 2017. A posthumous exhibit of long-time SMI member David Johnston’s work encompassing his abstract mixed mediums on Japanese paper, original serigraphs, and acrylic works on canvas. This exhibit takes place in Studio Montclair’s SMI Virginia S. Block Gallery, located on the second floor of 33 Plymouth Street in Montclair. All are invited to the opening reception on Friday, May 19, from 6 to 9 pm and coincides with the Spring Montclair Art Walk. The galleries are open to the public 7 am to 7 pm Monday through Friday.
SMI Virginia Block Gallery
33 Plymouth Street (2nd Floor)
Montclair, NJ 07042
HOURS: Monday-Friday 7am-7pm
SMI proudly participates in the MONTCLAIR ART WALK
CURATOR
Robert Koenig has been an important and integral part of the New Jersey arts scene since the 1960s, as the Director of the Montclair Art Museum from 1980 to 1991, of the Noyes Museum from 1991 to 1993, and of the SMA African Art Museum from 1996 to 2015. A recipient of BFA and MFA degrees from Yale University, Koenig also studied at Pratt Institute, the New School for Social Research, and Columbia University.
This posthumous exhibit will commemorate the work of long-time Studio Montclair member David Johnston and will feature work from throughout his career. Curated by his long-time friend and colleague, Robert Koenig, who is also writing an essay to accompany the show, it will include watercolors, mixed media on Japanese paper, and acrylics on canvas.
A prolific and highly esteemed artist, Johnston had over forty one-person shows during his lifetime in France, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, England, and the United States. Reviewing his one-man show at Montclair Art Museum, The New York Times wrote: “Poetic and distinctive… handles watercolor as if it were an effluence of his own blood.”
