The Parrot Does Not Care About You

Chris Johanson

The Parrot Does Not Care About You, 2018

Ink on paper
8 x 10 inches
Courtesy of the Artist
SOLD

California-native Chris Johanson is a key member of San Francisco's Mission School, Johanson engages with the meditative qualities of art-making and sincere direct communication through painting and sculpture. Johanson's work plays between the techniques of figuration and abstraction, as he sees these two modes of working as interconnected expressions of strong beliefs in environmentalism, compassion, and peaceful coexistence.

Chris Johanson was born in San Jose in 1968 and is based in Los Angeles. He Has exhibited widely is museums and galleries internationally over the past decade. His work has been in the subject of solo shoes and the tan teach Museum and Art Gallery in Saratoga Springs, New York (2014); the Portland Museum of Art in Portland, OR(2014)' LA MoCA Pacific Design Center in Los Angeles, CA(2013) ; and the Modern Institute in Glasgow, UK(2013). Johanson has been featured in the Glasgow International 2012 and the 2002 Whitney Biennial.