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November 4 - November 28, 2011

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220 Clement Street San Francisco, CA 94118
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Opening Reception Friday November 4, 7-10 pm Courtney Johnson paints wild and gnarled women engaged in wild and gnarly behavior. The reckless figures in her invented world bare multiple rows of razor sharp teeth and glare with no remorse. She considers these traits through line drawings within her paintings, to emphasize an unresolved, half-in-this-world woman. In her current body of work, Johnson cultivates a sense of character and place somewhere between convention and fantasy, where figures are unhinged and consumed by impulse. Courtney Johnson was born in Roanoke, Virginia. She received her MFA in painting from California College of the Arts in 2011and her BA from Prescott College in 2004. She is a 2010 recipient of the Murphy Cadogan Fellowship, and her work has been show at the Carville Annex, Kokoro Studio and Worth Ryder Gallery, all in the Bay area. Johnson lives and works in San Francisco.