An oil painter, art writer, and guest curator, Elizabeth Johnson writes for The Brooklyn Rail, Two Coats of Paint,  Artspiel, Occasional Philly, and Roborant Review. She recently exhibited in Silvermine Gallery's annual group juried show 75-A1, curated by Eleanor de Ropp Flatow, as well as group shows in Brooklyn, Hastings-on-Hudson, and Millersville, PA.

     On painting, she says, "I render one Photoshop-manipulated, distorted image at a time, building up a pattern of chaos on curved, folded, wave forms to express dreamlike anxiety. If I feel a conventional story, one having a logical beginning, middle, and end, coalesce while painting, I undo my last move. My process favors peripheral and non-verbal subjectivity; I back into rather than plan imagery. I try out ideas, reject most of them, scrape away attempts and marvel over the lush surface that's left. This textured and mixed-color empty zone is a crystal ball that suggests the next possibility."