Annie May Johnston, "à la folie (to madness)"
2022, Photopolymer etching on paper, 11 x 15.
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BIO
Annie May Johnston b. 1988 is an artist and mother situated in the field of printmaking, often working towards the margins of the medium - employing new technologies alongside traditional processes. Currently she is an Assistant Professor of Practice at the University of Texas at Austin where she is the Print Area head, chairs the Guest Artist in Print Program and is the faculty sponsor for the UT Riso Room. She received her MFA in Print from the University of Texas at Austin and holds undergraduate degrees in Classics and Psychology from the University of Colorado, Boulder. She was an assistant printmaker at Michael Woolworth Publications in Paris, specializing in traditional lithographic printmaking. Johnston has shown internationally and nationally including shows in Basel, New York, Houston, and London.
STATEMENT
Using the daisy as an oracle (... loves me, … loves me not) is an amorous activity that takes place outdoors, one that I often frequented in that sweet and fraught time between childhood and adulthood. The French have the tradition of effeuiller la marguerite, to pluck the daisy. Daisies and their power appear throughout history – from their reverance in temple gardens and recreated as beads and pendants in Ancient Egypt (3000 BCE), as a medicinal power in medieval times, to the “flower power” of the 60’s. Working with this history, I am using the daisy as a tool for the mourning of my past life, before I became a mother. Negotiating my feelings for myself and my new life, my successes and my failures, I rotate through the five potential options that the original French version of effeuiller la marguerite provides - un peu or "a little", beaucoup or "a lot", passionnément or "passionately", à la folie or "to madness", or pas du tout or "not at all."
2022, Photopolymer etching on paper, 11 x 15.
SHIPPING IS NOT INCLUDED. PLEASE CONTACT INFO@COLLARWORKS.ORG FOR A SHIPPING ESTIMATE.
BIO
Annie May Johnston b. 1988 is an artist and mother situated in the field of printmaking, often working towards the margins of the medium - employing new technologies alongside traditional processes. Currently she is an Assistant Professor of Practice at the University of Texas at Austin where she is the Print Area head, chairs the Guest Artist in Print Program and is the faculty sponsor for the UT Riso Room. She received her MFA in Print from the University of Texas at Austin and holds undergraduate degrees in Classics and Psychology from the University of Colorado, Boulder. She was an assistant printmaker at Michael Woolworth Publications in Paris, specializing in traditional lithographic printmaking. Johnston has shown internationally and nationally including shows in Basel, New York, Houston, and London.
STATEMENT
Using the daisy as an oracle (... loves me, … loves me not) is an amorous activity that takes place outdoors, one that I often frequented in that sweet and fraught time between childhood and adulthood. The French have the tradition of effeuiller la marguerite, to pluck the daisy. Daisies and their power appear throughout history – from their reverance in temple gardens and recreated as beads and pendants in Ancient Egypt (3000 BCE), as a medicinal power in medieval times, to the “flower power” of the 60’s. Working with this history, I am using the daisy as a tool for the mourning of my past life, before I became a mother. Negotiating my feelings for myself and my new life, my successes and my failures, I rotate through the five potential options that the original French version of effeuiller la marguerite provides - un peu or "a little", beaucoup or "a lot", passionnément or "passionately", à la folie or "to madness", or pas du tout or "not at all."
2022, Photopolymer etching on paper, 11 x 15.
SHIPPING IS NOT INCLUDED. PLEASE CONTACT INFO@COLLARWORKS.ORG FOR A SHIPPING ESTIMATE.
BIO
Annie May Johnston b. 1988 is an artist and mother situated in the field of printmaking, often working towards the margins of the medium - employing new technologies alongside traditional processes. Currently she is an Assistant Professor of Practice at the University of Texas at Austin where she is the Print Area head, chairs the Guest Artist in Print Program and is the faculty sponsor for the UT Riso Room. She received her MFA in Print from the University of Texas at Austin and holds undergraduate degrees in Classics and Psychology from the University of Colorado, Boulder. She was an assistant printmaker at Michael Woolworth Publications in Paris, specializing in traditional lithographic printmaking. Johnston has shown internationally and nationally including shows in Basel, New York, Houston, and London.
STATEMENT
Using the daisy as an oracle (... loves me, … loves me not) is an amorous activity that takes place outdoors, one that I often frequented in that sweet and fraught time between childhood and adulthood. The French have the tradition of effeuiller la marguerite, to pluck the daisy. Daisies and their power appear throughout history – from their reverance in temple gardens and recreated as beads and pendants in Ancient Egypt (3000 BCE), as a medicinal power in medieval times, to the “flower power” of the 60’s. Working with this history, I am using the daisy as a tool for the mourning of my past life, before I became a mother. Negotiating my feelings for myself and my new life, my successes and my failures, I rotate through the five potential options that the original French version of effeuiller la marguerite provides - un peu or "a little", beaucoup or "a lot", passionnément or "passionately", à la folie or "to madness", or pas du tout or "not at all."