Jori Johnson (b. 1989) is a Southern California native, currently working out of her studio in Los Angeles. Both her creative process and content of her work are interwoven with the mental and physical health challenges that she has learned to navigate beginning in her early 20's. While initially inspired by personal experience, her practice is one built upon the synthesis of interdisciplinary research across a variety of scientific fields then expressed through the mediums of painting, installation, creative writing, and musical composition. Though her overall practice is primarily focused within the visual disciplines, written and musical compositions are always actively informing the work she creates.
She earned both her Bachelor’s of Studio Art and a Master’s of Fine Art from Azusa Pacific University, Azusa, CA (2010, 2018).
Statement
My work considers patterns of perceptual experience in relationship to Time, Space, Memory, and Identity.
I investigate how we craft meaning from abstract phenomena of time. Vivid color systems become metaphors for the pools of sensory rhythms we bathe in— offering planes for playful exploration into the space between memory configurations. Drawing from these individually curated collections of time fragments, we pattern the identity we come to understand and express ourselves by.
For me, this symbiotic event of human perception is the most intriguing paradox. Our relationship with Time is an ongoing process of which we are both passive recipients of, yet equally responsible for actively shaping. Its patterns are dynamic, and change is its constant. Each one of my series plays within these fluctuating currents, guiding each unresolved movement into definitive maps of a moment.
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