🎨 Leasho Johnson’s densely textured paintings vary in scale. The dark color palette and shiny pitch-black silhouettes are interrupted by bright splashes of color: vivid pink, yellow, blue, and tangerine. | ✍️ vasiarigou
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Before even entering the gallery, “Somewhere between the eyes and the heart” pulls you in. Leasho Johnson’s densely textured paintings vary in scale. The dark color palette and shiny pitch-black silhouettes are interrupted by bright splashes of color: vivid pink, yellow, blue, and tangerine. The Jamaican-born, Chicago-based artist’s subjects are abstract enough for their facial features to be indistinct, but figurative enough to feel their piercing eyes look into your soul.
Johnson’s work—spanning formats and media from painting and collage to sculpture and murals—is a deep dive into the culture and experiences that have shaped him. Growing up Black, queer, and male in a small Jamaican town, the artist was heavily informed by early childhood memories, his country’s postcolonial condition, and dancehall street culture that encompasses music, fashion, drugs, guns, art, community, technology, and more.
Johnson’s subjects are abstract enough for their facial features to be indistinct, but figurative enough to feel their piercing eyes look into your soul.His approach to color and figuration in painting: Charcoal—layers and layers of it. Color emerges from the blackness of his canvas in the form of watercolors, acrylic, and DIY natural dyes.
“Somewhere between the eyes and the heart” serves both as a reminder of how far we have come and how much further we can go. At the intersections of Blackness, queerness, and the self, Johnson breaks down the barriers between high and low. Fusing pop culture and fine art literally and metaphorically, he first becomes vulnerable, then consumed, and eventually liberated. Same goes for the viewer.Through 8/12: Tue-Sat 11 AM-6 PM, Western Exhibitions, 1709 W.
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