Gayle Johnson

Yellow Tile , 1979

Artwork Type: Paintings
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 8 4 x 66 ½ in. (254.0 x 168.91 cm)
Accession #: 19790586
Department: Thesis Exhibition 1979
Credit: Collection of University Art Museum, University at Albany, State University of New York on behalf of The University at Albany Foundation , Gift of Gayle Johnson
Related Exhibitions:
Affinities and Outliers: Highlights from the University at Albany Fine Art Collections
American Playlist: Selections From The University At Albany Art Collections
Object Label:
Gayle Johnson’s (1953–1995, American) paintings operate in the language of the commonplace. Relying on everyday objects such as those found in a domestic kitchen, period romance paperbacks, and images culled from 1950s B-movies, Johnson captured the mundane and the overlooked with a meticulous exactness. Geometric in its compositional arrangement, Yellow Tile (1979) suggests a kinship with the de Stijl painter Piet Mondrian, in its relationship to the grid. Johnson utilizes a similar primary-color palette, only softer, more muted, and with a visual precision toward the play of light and shadow.
Affinities and Outliers: Highlights from the University at Albany Fine Art Collections

American Playlist: Selections From The University At Albany Art Collections

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