Scott Johnson

Working with a wide range of materials—from stone and wood to old maps and glass, wax and clay to books and binoculars—I produce sculptural installations that are meant to engage viewers in thought-provoking perceptual experiences.  My practice is threefold:  collection, architectural intervention and experimentation.  The collections are akin to cabinets of curiosities and are comprised of found, crafted and altered objects that are meant to stimulate multiple readings by virtue of their constellation-like juxtapositions.  The architectural interventions are meant to evoke landscapes and provide an experience of uncanny vastness within a contained situation.  And the experiments—usually with the methods and tools of representation, orientation, and time-keeping—elicit the tension between text and texture and explore the problems and possibilities that arise in the space between what is represented and what is lived.  In the end, my work is meant to provoke wonder and compel viewers to think critically about the ways we perceive, order and represent the world.