“Hush Now Don’t Explain” published in Drawing in a Time of Fear & Lies, May 19, 2018
FEMINIST BORDER ARTS FILM FESTIVAL
RESORT, a video co-created with Susanne Slavick, is included in:
New Mexico State University Art Gallery
March 12, 2018 from 10am-6pm
A second screening event occurs on April 16, 2018 from 6pm-8:30pm at the CMI Theater Milton Hall 171 on the campus of NMSU. Sponsored by the Gender & Sexuality Studies, Interdisciplinary Studies Department, and the Creative Media Institute.
WHERE ANGELS FEAR TO TREAD
Spurious appears in Hyperallergic's Drawing in a Time of Fear & Lies, March 3, 2018
THE PARTICULAR PAST
A group show curated by Paul M. Nicholson
Martin Gallery, Muhlenberg College, Allentown PA
February 14 – April 30, 2018
Image: Andrew Ellis Johnson, Still from STREWN, 2015
Features work by Tom Bendtsen, Foeiqua, Sharka Hyland, Andrew Ellis Johnson, Bang Geul Han, Donald Porcaro, Jessica Posner, Jessica Walker.
THE OTHER BORDER WALL
Flatland Gallery, Houston TX
February 12 - March 30, 2018
A group show organized by JM Design Studio
https://www.otherborderwallproject.com/
Image: Andrew Ellis Johnson, Superfluous, 2018, digital collage
UP IN ARMS
Andrew Ellis Johnson's video Massacre of the Innocents is included in UP IN ARMS at Zilkha Gallery South at Wesleyan University.
In Up in Arms, Artists Engage in Dialogue on Gun-Related Violence, by Mae Davies in The Wesleyan Argus.
THE SKELETONS IN HISTORY'S CLOSET
Andrew Ellis Johnson: The Skeletons in History’s Closet appears in Hyperallergic, November 4, 2017.
No Vacation: 'Resort' is a voyage of ‘empathic unsettlement’
RESORT, a two person show by Andrew Ellis Johnson and Susanne Slavick at The Fed Galleries at Kendall College of Art and Design in Grand Rapids, Michigan, previewed in this REVUE article by Marla Miller.
MYKONOS BIENNIALE 2017
Between a Rock and a Hard Place (or How to Make Light at the End of a Tunnel) was included in the Mykonos Bienniale 2017 on the island of Delos, Greece.
September 1-5, 2017
UNLOADED at Harris Gallery, University of La Verne, CA
Massacre of the Innocents and Rehearsal are included in UNLOADED, a group show organized by Susanne Slavick that explores historical and social issues surrounding the availability, use, and impact of guns in our culture.
Harris Gallery, University of La Verne, CA
September 5 - October 26, 2017
Curator's Lecture, Thursday, September 14, 6PM, Campus Center Ballroom A
Reception: Thursday, September 14, 7PM, Harris Gallery
DRAWING IN A TIME OF FEAR & LIES
Swamp Accommodations VI from the DRAIN cycle appears in Hyperallergic, August 5, 2017.
RESORT
Work by Andrew Ellis Johnson and Susanne Slavick
November 7, 2017 –January 31, 2018
The Fed Galleries @ KCAD, Grand Rapids, Michigan
Opening Reception: November 7, 5-7pm
Artists Talk: November 7, 6:30pm
GATEWAY TO FREEDOM →
Curated by Thalia Vrachopoulos, as part of Back to Athens 5, Athens, Greece, June 8 -30, 2017
http://cheapart.gr/gateway-to-freedom-back-to-athens-2017/
CHOKE: WITNESS FOR PEACE 2017
Wooden baseball bat, epoxy filler, glass eyes, 33 x 3.5 x 3.5 inches
The original version was made in 1998 but is now lost. Reconstructed in 2017.
Glass eyes courtesy of Tohickon Glass Eyes with special thanks to Antonio Alfaro.
On June 17, 1999, National Public Radio reported on British paratroopers who had found a baseball bat in a torture chamber in Pristina, Kosovo. The bat was inscribed with the label "mouth-shutter.”
The existence of torture and its tools persists, despite so many eyewitness accounts and exposes. It is practiced before, during and after wars, overtly and covertly. Those it would harm flee if they can, joining refugees who seek a fundamental safety that home and state no longer provide. Borders define who lives and dies as we watch, eyes wide open. Witnessing without action is the choke—vision squandered and humanity abandoned amongst the rhetorical handwringing.
“But witnesses incur responsibilities, as anyone who has ever seen a traffic accident and had to go to court to testify, knows. In the new world of globally televised war crimes, the defence of 'not knowing,' or neutrality, will dissolve for everyone. To be a witness or bystander is not a value-free choice but, inadvertently, a moral position; and in this sense the 'guilt' of people who live with the memory of crimes committed by members of their families, or communities, has been unwittingly extended to everyone who watches appalling pictures on the news.”
― Erna Paris, Long Shadows: Truth, Lies and History
PERSONALS
A work from the Pipe Dreams series is included in Personals at Skowhegan New York Space, 136 West 22nd Street, New York, NY, May 4 – June 8, 2017.
http://www.andrewellisjohnson.com/#/pipe-dreams1/
https://www.skowheganart.org/personals-exhibit/
Post-Truth
"Sam I Am" is included in the Post-Truth issue, in the inaugural issue of American Flytrap, edited by Ryan Standfest and published by Rotland Press.
http://rotlandpress.com/store-1/
