JoAnna received her MFA from Southern Illinois University Carbondale in 2000. She has been part of group exhibitions far and wide from Berlin and Tokyo to Philadelphia and Fargo, ND. JoAnna has had a variety of solo exhibitions including her recent exhibition at Alan Klotz Gallery in NYC and her work has been published in books and magazines. JoAnna has also received grants from galleries, SIUC Women’s Studies program, the Southern Illinois Cultural Alliance, and Carbondale Community Arts. As part of these grants, JoAnna has worked with children ages 6-14 exploring storytelling and body image. She has also taught photography and design courses as a visiting instructor in both the School of Art and Design at Southern Illinois University Carbondale and Texas Tech University. Her current work focuses on memory and memento. It began in 2000 with photographs of 30 white dresses that she constructed placed in natural settings then photographed. This work evolved into collage and assemblage. She began painting her collages after an inspiring trip to New York City in February of 2002 and a visit to the Picasso/Matisse Exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art.
Most recently she has returned to her dresses, but this time with a group of 30 black dresses and one black and white dress. Her website, www.30Dresses.com, focuses on her photography of the three dress projects. These projects have resulted in four bodies of work, which have been exhibited or will be exhibited in Texas and through out the country. The black and white dress is featured in the exhibit, dragged & dropped. The 30 white dresses and the 30 black dresses are in the exhibit, Living In Between. This exhibit also features a video projection and the dresses themselves. Other exhibits include 30 Dresses and No Man's Land. Her newest body of work, Lessons in Twirling, features dresses made from vintage tablecloths using the same dress pattern as before, but adapting the skirt to be a full circle. This time she is actually putting young girls into the dresses. They enjoy wearing the dresses especially when they get to twirl. JoAnna is photographing the girls in groups and is trying to capture their spontaneous interactions and how they are transformed by the costume of the dress.
JoAnna lives in Lubbock, TX where she works part-time as a visiting assistant professor in the School of Art at Texas Tech University, where her husband works in the College of Mass Communications as the Regent’s Professor in Convergent Media. (They met working at the college newspaper.). JoAnna recently moved from Carbondale, IL where she was an active community volunteer and organized an Empty Bowls Project for the Good Samaritan Homeless Shelter and Food Pantry including The One-of-a-Kind Bowl Show. Her project raised over $8,000 for Good Sam. JoAnna has three children Jennifer, Stacey, and Andy all of whom live and work in Los Angeles. Andy and Jen work in the television industry. Stacey works in fashion. JoAnna enjoys visiting her grandchildren, Sarah and Lucas, often as possible.
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JoAnna Johnson
Alan Klotz
Gallery 511 West 25th
St., New York, NY 212-741-4764, www.klotzgallery.com Solo 2010, September 24-October 29, 30 Dresses, The Dairy Center for the Arts, Boulder, CO 2010, February 27-March 17, Modern Conveniences, LHUCA, Lubbock, TX 2009, July 9-August 21, 30
Dresses, Alan Klotz Gallery, New York, NY 2009, April 11-May 11, No
Man’s Land, H Gallery, Houston, TX 2009, March, Living In
Between, PooL Art Fair, New York, NY 2008-9, December 5-January 24, Living In Between, LHUCA, Lubbock, TX 2008, October, dragged
& dropped, r Gallery, Lubbock, TX 2006, February, Rosebud,
Rosetta Stone Bookstore, Carbondale, IL Group (juried) 2009, September
13-October 10, 18th Annual Juried Exhibition, Art Institute &
Gallery, Salisbury, MD 2009, May 1-June
111, The Emotional Body, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL 2009, April
23-May 31, 41st Annual Visual Art Exhibition VAST, Denton, TX 2009, April4-May
7, Texas National 2009, Cole Art Center, Nacogdoches, TX 2009, April 2-26,
In Your Dreams, Pen & Brush Gallery, New York, NY 2009, March
27-May 11, Regional Juried Art Exhibition, MSCC Forsyth Center Galleries, Texas
A&M University, College Station, TX, Award
of Excellence 2009, March
5-April25, Women’s Works 2009, N.W. Area Arts Council, Woodstock, IL 2009, February
1-28, Artists’ ShowCase Portfolio Show, The Center for Fine Art Photography,
Fort Collins, CO 2008, September
27-November 22, After Life, Watson Studio Gallery, Johnson City, TX 2007 December,
High & Dry VII, International Cultural Center, Lubbock, TX 2003,
September-October, International Assemblage Artist Exhibition, Gallery
twenty-four, Berlin, Germany 2003,
June-August, Southern Illinois Artists Open Competition,
Cedarhurst Mitchell Museum, Mt. Vernon, IL 2002,
November-January, 2003, Art St. Louis XVIII, The Exhibition, Art St. Louis Main
Gallery, St. Louis, MO. Group (invitational) 2010, May 5-31,
Gatherings, LHUCA, Lubbock, TX 2010, February
7-March 20, Gatherings, Scott Gallery, Carroll Community College, Westminster,
MD. 2010,
January-April, High & Dry, Centennial Museum, University of Texas El Paso,
TX 2009,
July-October, Red, White & Blue…Gone Green, The Great American Women’s
Sculpture Park, Pine Bush, NY 2005, November,
The Annual Combined Faculty Exhibit, University Museum, SIUC, Carbondale, IL 2005, May, Art on
the Water, Vanishing Point Gallery, Lockwood, NY 2005, January,
The Annual Combined Faculty Exhibit, University Museum, SIUC, Carbondale, IL 2004,
January-February, The Annual Combined Faculty Exhibit, University Museum, SIUC,
Carbondale, IL 2001, January,
Selected Quilts from New Quilts from Old Favorites—Ohio Star, International
Quilt Festival, Tokyo, Japan 2001,
January-March, The Annual Combined Faculty Exhibit, University Museum, SIUC,
Carbondale, IL 2000, January,
Mini Prints 1999, Borders Bookshop, Philadelphia, PA 2009, Finalist,
Critical Mass, Portfolio Review, Portland, OR 2009, Vermont
Studio Center Artist’s Grant for January 2010 Residency 2009, Award of
Excellence, Regional Juried Art Exhibition, Forsyth Center Galleries, Texas
A&M University, College Station, TX 2008, Hungry’s
Gallery Photography Grant, Living In
Between, a solo exhibition. 1998, Southern
Illinois Cultural Alliance with Carbondale Community Arts, The Body Project. 1997-98, Joint
Women’s Studies/UWPA Grant Juried Competition, The Body Project 2009, March, Artists’ ShowCase Portfolio Show, Volume 2,
Issue 1, The Center for Fine Art Photography, Ft. Collins, CO, 12 image
portfolio, Living In Between 2006, Art of Survival: Women, Healing, and the
Arts, article and 4 images. 2010, January, Monthly Photography, a 14-page article
discussing my work with color photographs, my image featured on the cover, in
this leading Korean magazine. 2009, November,
Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, Lubbock, TX, my photograph In the Woods featured as part of an article promoting a local art
event. 2009, Spring, Voices of Art, A 3-page article
discussing my exhibit, dragged &
dropped, with color photos. Miscellaneous 2003-04, The
African American Museum, Carbondale, IL has adopted my work, Which Way?, as a symbol of the Museum
including use on brochures and t-shirts.Gallery
Representation
Books
Newspaper & Magazines