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May 2017: Remembering David Johnston (1933-2016)

May 2017: Remembering David Johnston (1933-2016)

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

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Exhibition Dates: May 19 – Jul 28, 2017

Reception Date & Time: Friday, May 19, 2017, 6-9pm

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CURATORS’ STATEMENT

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.

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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.”

  • Babalu Babalu 30x24 Acrylic 2014
  • Basso Profundo 18x12 WC 2009
  • Bell Hop 18x12 WC 2007
  • Black Knight 17.75 x 6 WC 1976
  • Blue Moon WC 12.25 x 9.25 2013
  • Breaking Up 20 x 24 Acrylic 1977
  • Chalice 14Sq.Acrylic 1971
  • Cloud Land 8.5x22.75 WC 2002
  • Cricketeer 18x12 Silk Screen 1974
  • Drahpati 17x15 WC 1994
  • Green Point
  • Jumping Green 8.25x22.75 WC 2001
  • Little Carnavale 12 x 14 WOP 2010
  • Little Jazz 9x12 WC 1984
  • Lost at Sea
  • Mariner 12.25 x 12.25 WC Early work
  • Moonglo 6x9 WC 1993
  • On Edge 15x12 WC 1994-5
  • One Up 18x6.75 WC 1987
  • Percussionist 12.5 Sq. WC 1989
  • Recruit.14x11 WC 1998
  • Rhapsody 23x7.5 WC 2001
  • Tall Tale 31x9 WC 2007
  • The Admiral 1981.4
  • The Commander 14x11 WC 1998
  • Theater Set for Craig's Wife
  • Three Irish Dancers 17.5x12.5 WC 1977
  • Two Musicians. 48x36 Oil 1958
  • Untitled. 15x12 WC 1989
  • Untitled (Paris) 24.5x11 WC 1964
  • White Tie and Tails 19.5x13.5 Silk Screen 1971
  • Your Place or Mine 12x9 WC 2013
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