It was a great success and we are currently working on setting up another showing at
Gallerie M for the new year. Many thanks to all who attended tonight!
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Thursday, December 8, 2011
Sneak Peak @ Film Noir Series For Noir Nouveau
© Emily E Johnson
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Noir Nouveau will be showing at Plaid Tuba
December 13-15th
With the opening reception Tuesday December 13th
from 6-9.
Please join us!
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Photography Print Sale
This Friday December 2nd from 6-10 PM
Planet Bead Gallery
712 Milwaukee Street
Milwaukee, WI
Come out for a print auction hosted by
the senior photography majors of MIAD!
Featuring works by the seniors,
as well as alumni,
and senior juried work submitted by
photo juniors and non photo majors!
There will be 3 ONE DOLLAR raffles on small print packages
featuring work submitted by
Myself, Emily Porter, & Jennifer Romero (pictured above)
Zachary Seib, Andrea Bartley, & Laura Hughes
Keely Weiland, Kaitlynn Scannell, & Alec Schuppel
ALL PROCEEDS GO TOWARDS PUBLISHING OUR SENIOR CATALOG!
We look forward to seeing you there!
Monday, November 21, 2011
Monday, October 24, 2011
Putting together the pieces
© Emily E. Johnson
Currently exploring the subject of impressions, and the things we leave behind that show presence, or a lack of. Along with this is the idea of vulnerability and the delicate nature of these things. More to come.
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Milwaukee Gallery Night: MIAD Student/Alumni Art Sale
Thursday-Saturday October 20-22nd marks the MIAD Student/Alumni Art Sale!
I'll be selling 12 prints and photographing the preview night of the show featuring many other talented artists.
For more information:
Be sure to stop by and check it out!
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
MIAD Pre College Internship
I've been absolutely horrible with updating my blog over the last month. I've been working as a photo intern at The Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design documenting the activities and work produced by the Pre College students and the Creative Educators Institute courses that run through July.
© Emily E. Johnson
I've had the opportunity to spend some time with Jon Horvath's photography students, and accompanied them on a trip to Sonja Thomsen's studio to engage in a critique of her new body of work, which was really beneficial to the students' experience here.
© Kyle Putney
I'm really blown away by the work the students have been producing during their time at MIAD. Including work by Maddy Profio and Kyle Putney (who we're all trying to convince to be a photo major at MIAD next year instead of Time Based Media)!
© Maddy Profio
© Kyle Putney
© Kyle PutneyGo check out more of their work, as well as the rest of Jon's photo majors on their blog: Miad Pre College Photo Majors '11
Thursday, June 16, 2011
Painting Progress
Roughly what the finished product is going to look like. I wish I would have collected more bark but its a 4 hour drive to where I found it so I'm just working with what I have. The figures are going to be painted, I just like to layout lines for myself to start out.
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Hands on.
I started painting again today. I haven't had any urge to photograph in the last week, all I've wanted to do is paint so I'm just going to get it out of my system while its rainy and gross outside. So far I'm covered from hands to toes in paint, my canvases are primed and I have the sketches laid out. I haven't painted in 3 years so we'll see how this goes :)
Thursday, June 9, 2011
Saturday, May 28, 2011
Photography as an outlet.
© Emily E. Johnson
I don't have the words, which is why I have a camera. Sometimes it bridges the gap between brain and mouth.
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Monday, April 18, 2011
Monday, March 28, 2011
Friday, March 18, 2011
From the first of March.
He thinks I look lovely
in lipstick and lace.
He thinks I look lovely
as always.
As always
He knows not how unlovely I've been.
© Emily E. Johnson
in lipstick and lace.
He thinks I look lovely
as always.
As always
He knows not how unlovely I've been.
© Emily E. Johnson
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
One on One With Kelli Connell
Reverie © Kelli Connell
At MIAD today the junior level photo majors were offered an opportunity to have a one on one photo critique with Kelli Connell, a Chicago based photographer whose work has been shown nationally in many solo and group exhibitions. She also teaches at Columbia College in Chicago.
Our talk went really well, and she shared some really helpful insights with me. She pointed out my strengths as well as my weaknesses within my body of work and how to remedy those weaker photographs. She inspired a lot of new ideas and ways to re-shoot the weaker images to strengthen them. To anyone at Columbia: you're lucky to have her around.
Our talk went really well, and she shared some really helpful insights with me. She pointed out my strengths as well as my weaknesses within my body of work and how to remedy those weaker photographs. She inspired a lot of new ideas and ways to re-shoot the weaker images to strengthen them. To anyone at Columbia: you're lucky to have her around.
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Keep on keeping on.
Current progress of the work I started in November accompanied with my current draft of the artist's statement.
My work explores the transitory stages of sexuality, the shedding of adolescent innocence, and the development of romantic relationships through the female perspective. These ideas are communicated through the use of metaphor and of objects that hold classic symbolism. The work explores this perspective in a way that is bittersweet and honest, not like the cinematic, sugar coated ideals promoted to the youth.
Monday, February 28, 2011
Keys
© Emily E. Johnson
"Symbols abound in our modern world
everyday objects that one often sees.
But few things have such layers of meaning
as a simple ring with a pair of keys.
What do they open, what barriers destroy?
what engines do they bid to wake?
what object have they for so long protected,
that someone would otherwise take?
Or perhaps they exist purely in concept,
The abandoned keys to a persons heart
And should they unlock that long-hidden treasure
That someone would have a new start."
Credit: http://mumbayaya.deviantart.com/
everyday objects that one often sees.
But few things have such layers of meaning
as a simple ring with a pair of keys.
What do they open, what barriers destroy?
what engines do they bid to wake?
what object have they for so long protected,
that someone would otherwise take?
Or perhaps they exist purely in concept,
The abandoned keys to a persons heart
And should they unlock that long-hidden treasure
That someone would have a new start."
Credit: http://mumbayaya.deviantart.com/
Saturday, February 26, 2011
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
January 18th.
All images © Emily E. Johnson
I've come to take these days with a grain of salt,
the fault is my own and I wear it well,
baring its' burdens in my own sort of fashion
of self reflection
of deep conviction.
An imagination run too far beyond tangible truths.
Flickering scenes behind a glassy gaze
from too long staring out this windows' pains
at a world beyond reach,
bound by the roots that sleep beneath these ever pacing feet.
Fever dreams 'til the grey light of a new dawn,
greeting each in a cold sweat of uncertainty.
What it all means, I don't know.
A series of intricate webs trap these vaguely lingering scenes from above this mess of tangled sheets, and my mind reels with the realness of it all,
its' likeness to reality.
Silently, begging nine more minutes, please.
And the alarm sounds.
Thursday, January 6, 2011
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