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Chris Johanson Please Listen I Have Something To Tell You About What Is For more than a decade, Chris Johanson has been transforming day-to-day subject matter into simple stories in paintings that make bright, flat reference to illustration or folk art. Please Listen I Have Something To Tell You About What Is assembles Johanson's complete works to date, as well as several new pieces that have appeared nowhere else. Each spins a world from small, diffuse details: these are scenes where nude dancers, distracted pedestrians, forests, abstract rainbows and "good vibes" exist next to one another, on a sinister, comic edge that, even in its apparent brightness, can reflect the darkest places of human experience. This is the second publication to come from Alleged Press, Aaron Rose's imprint. Hardcover, 192 pages, 100 color/80 b&w plates, printed in Italy, 2007. |