The Art League's Invitational Exhibit honors two artists whose body of work is top-tier and who have been nominated for the Artist of the Year. This year's honorees are Carmen Cartiness Johnson and Yvette Shadrock. Both work in large format, both are masters of celebratory and symbolic color.
PLEASE JOIN US AT THE OPENING RECEPTION
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2019, FROM 3-5 PM
SAN ANTONIO ART LEAGUE & MUSEUM
130 KING WILLIAM STREET 78204
210-223-1140
PLEASE JOIN US AT THE OPENING RECEPTION
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2019, FROM 3-5 PM
SAN ANTONIO ART LEAGUE & MUSEUM
130 KING WILLIAM STREET 78204
210-223-1140
CARMEN CARTINESS JOHNSON
- Ms. Johnson was raised in Kansas City, Mo, a self-taught artist whose work was initially based on summer visits to her grandmother’s farm. Her earlier works were flat colored graphic shapes. Her paintings have progressed to a more dimensional painterly style. Carmen’s narrative art takes a snapshot of people interacting in social situations. Her faceless images allow viewers to cross racial lines placing themselves in the situation on canvas. The inspiration for her vivid paintings comes from poems, songs, novels, media and also the works of Romare Bearden and Diego Rivera.
- In addition, to her figurative acrylic paintings she creates, multimedia work on paper and canvas using various papers, newsprint type, paint and photographs. These works are sometimes done in a series of ten. Each of ten having same subject matter but a different color palette.
- Ms. Johnson participated in the San Antonio Tricentennial Celebration and has a commissioned work in the Freeman Coliseum and several pieces in University Health Systems of San Antonio downtown facility. In 2011 eighteen pieces of her work was exhibited at Charles A. Wright African American History Museum in Detroit. She has done a residency at Brodsky Center in New Jersey, the resultant work was acquired by the Library of Congress in 2006.
- In 2008, her family moved to San Antonio, Texas from Bordentown, New Jersey. Since that time she has participated a number of juried shows.