The Charred Sea felt tip colored and color tape on paper Newman currently lives and works

Newman currently lives and works in Brooklyn

” The scraping and sanding creates a variety of different textures and leads to the emergence of unexpected forms

The artist thinks of each painting as a landscape

The rhythm of the vertical stripes are resulting from the wooden sections glued by the industry

Inspired by Umberto Boccioni's States of Mind Series

The Charred Sea felt tip colored and color tape on paper Newman currently lives and worksThe technique Johnson employs is extremely rigorous, involving, as he says, pushing paint around with palette knives and drywall tools rather than brushes. The scraping and sanding creates a variety of different textures and leads to the emergence of unexpected forms. Johnson has said he does not believe in inspiration. Instead, he believes in evolution. He is motivated by process. Rather than being planned ahead of time, the work emerges through a