September 8th, 2015 — 3:15pm
Art critics Christopher Finch and Peter Frank converse with artist Jay Mark Johnson during his WAVE LENGTHS exhibition at William Turner Gallery on Thursday May 21, 2015.
Watch this 13 minute video of excerpts here. | Christopher Finch | Peter Frank | William Turner Gallery
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June 1st, 2015 — 12:16pm

“Jay Mark Johnson’s remarkable photographs of waves possess the same insistent energy and drama that I find in the great seascapes of J.M.W.Turner currently on view at the Getty Museum.”
—Christopher Finch
“Johnson’s work applies the methods of modular repetition associated with ‘minimalist’ composers such as Philip Glass and Steve Reich to photographic imagery — with the same fluid grace and delight in patterning found in that music.”
— Peter Frank
WILLIAM TURNER GALLERY | CHRISTOPHER FINCH | PETER FRANK | View flier here. A video of this event is forthcoming.
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April 22nd, 2015 — 2:50pm
In “WAVE LENGTHS,” an exhibition of new prints at Santa Monica’s William Turner Gallery, Jay Mark Johnson expands on his “timeline” photos of people moving through space and time, and now turns his lens toward the natural world…
View article by Stephen Dillon on Artsy here.
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April 18th, 2015 — 1:38pm
William Turner Gallery is pleased to present WAVE LENGTHS, an exhibition of large format color photographs by artist Jay Mark Johnson. The images depict the rhythmic cycling and recycling of oceanfront waves as recorded on remote coastlines around the world–in Florida, California, Hawaii, the Caribbean, Great Britain, Australia and South Africa…
WILLIAM TURNER GALLERY | View exhibition catalogue and video here. View PRESS RELEASE here. View listing on Artsy here.
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February 15th, 2015 — 4:22am
Time is an abstract construct. A cultural tradition. An in-between non-entity. Like the verb between two nouns, like the directional movement between a subject and an object, like the central dramatic act in a three act play. Contemporary linguistics tells us that time is expressed by using spatial metaphors and that spatial concepts are shaped by language. The physical sciences tell us that space and time are both elastic and interdependent…
What does a theoretical physicist have to say about this? And what if you ask an artist, a writer, a musician, an art critic, a filmmaker or an academic?
Time is an abstract construct. A cultural tradition. An in-between non-entity. It is a measurement, as in the time involved in passing between two places. It is like the space between two places. But space is volumetric, time is linear. It has just two dimensions. Time is like the verb between two nouns, like the directional movement between a subject and an object, like the central dramatic act in a three act play. The physical sciences tell us that space and time are both elastic and interdependent. Contemporary linguistics tells us that spatial concepts are shaped by language and that time is invariably expressed using spatial metaphors…
BARRY BARISH | SHANA NYS DAMBROT | CARLO SILIOTTO | JEFFREY SKOLLER | COLBURN SCHOOL | More event information here. |
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February 2nd, 2015 — 3:23am
The Colburn School is a world-class performing arts school where a renowned faculty provides instruction in music, dance and drama to dedicated students of all ages. This exhibition presents twenty-one large format photographs by artist Jay Mark Johnson. They are selected from a decade long inquiry focusing on the possibilities for timeline photography.
COLBURN SCHOOL | More information here. | ACE Gallery
This exhibition presents twenty-one large format photographs by artist Jay Mark Johnson. They are selected from a decade long inquiry focusing on the possibilities for timeline photography.
Art critic Shana Nys Dambrot writes “Johnson’s pictures look nothing like the world as we know it, and they are not really meant to. Yet still, their brain-melting relationship to the truth remains unassailable. The best thing to do is just relax, and let art and science blow your mind.”
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December 3rd, 2014 — 10:43pm
In December 2104, culminating a four-year effort by Galerie Deschler Berlin, the Deutscher Bundestag (German Parliament) acquired Jay Mark Johnson’s A VENDEMIARE CON DALGAS as part of the government’s Artothek collection.
DEUTSCHER BUNDESTAG | ARTOTHEK | GALERIE DESCHLER BERLIN | View A VENDEMIARE CON DALGAS here.
DEUTSCHER BUNDESTAG | ARTOTHEK | GALERIE DESCHLER | VENDEMIARE CON DALGAS
In December 2104 through the efforts of Galerie Deschler Berlin, the Deutscher Bundestag (German Parliament) acquired Johnson’s A VENDEMIARE CON DALGAS as part of their selection of 2014 purchases for the Artothek collection.
DEUTSCHER BUNDESTAG | ARTOTHEK | GALERIE DESCHLER | VENDEMIARE CON DALGAS
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November 2nd, 2014 — 10:42am
El creador de los efectos visuales de Matrix y Titanic, Jay Mark Johnson, montó su primera ofrenda de muertos en México y la tituló “En la Madrix”. La obra mezcla tintes futuristas con la problemática que atraviesa el País y un toque de Matrix.
INSTITUTO MUNICIPAL DE ART Y CULTURA PUEBLA | REFORMA | MURAL | NOTICIAS TERRA | NOTIMEX | EL SOL DE PUEBLA | CONACULTA
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November 1st, 2014 — 7:16am
Con el objetivo de explorar la problemática de la migración y sus diferentes aristas económicas, raciales, sociales, culturales y de género, además de sensibilizar a la población sobre este tema, el Ayuntamiento de Puebla a través del Instituto Municipal de Arte y Cultura (IMACP), presenta la exposición denominada “Migraciones”.
INSTITUTO MUNICIPAL DE ART Y CULTURA PUEBLA | CARLOS MOTTA | DULCE PINZÓN | MICHAEL LOPEZ MURILLO | Video de la conferencia de prensa here. | View SURFING SOWETO here.
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September 16th, 2014 — 12:11pm

Johnson’s CARBON DATING #1 has been delivered and installed at the Phoenix Art Museum where the artwork finds its new permanent home.
PHOENIX ART MUSEUM | View CARBON DATING #1 here.
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