October 30 – November 23, 1975
Art Gallery, Eugenia Fuller Atwood Library
Glenside, Pa. – Lois M. Johnson, of Philadelphia, will hold a one-woman show of her recent works at Beaver College, Easton and Church Rds., Glenside, from October 30 through November 23 in the art gallery of the Atwood Library. The opening reception will be held on October 30 from 7:30 to 10:00 PM, and the public is invited to attend.
Miss Johnson is chairman of the printmaking department and assistant professor of the Philadelphia College of Art.
She has held numerous shows in the Philadelphia area.
Miss Johnson serves as vice president of the American Color Print Society and is a member of the Rittenhouse Square Exhibition committee, the Society of American Graphic Artists, the Print Club Artists committee. She is also a member of the Philadelphia Art Alliance and a past member of the board of governors of the Philadelphia Water Color Club.
A graduate of the University of North Dakota, Miss Johnson received her master of fine arts from the University of Wisconsin.
1975 BEAVER NEWS
“Lois Johnson’s recent work on Atwood display” by Ellen Ann Stein
With the increasing popularity of the Guinness Book of World Records, to be referred to as a “Who’s Who” in America has become somewhat commonplace[.] However, Lois Johnson, whose artwork is presently on display at Beaver, is listed in the 1973 Edition of Who’s Who in American Art. Ms. Johnson’s display of mainly figurative art was greeted with a successful turnout at her opening last Thursday.
Walt Whitman said, “No two blades of grass are alike.” This also applies to art. Jack Davis, professor of fine arts and chairman of the department explained the uniqueness of Ms. Johnson’s artwork.
“One of the most interesting things about the show is the way in which a wide range of techniques can be organized into a visual experience which carries emotional authority,” he said. “In a way it seems like the triumph of a person over machines, in that complex attributes of technique and manipulation can result in an image which touches the feelings so surely.”
“For example,” he continued, “her painting ‘From Hand to Mouth’ has a wide range of techniques, all kinds of images, a whole gambit, and comes through with a resonant emotional experience of night, dawn, and some other indescribably time of one’s life.”
Ms. Johnson compared her work to movies and comic strips. “They are a passage of a sequence of events,” she said. “My artwork is autobiographical about a sequence of time… like a movie frozen within a sequence of footage.”
Ms. Johnson withheld from giving a comment on her general reaction to the show. However, in doing so, she offered an explanation which proved to be of greater value; Ms. Johnson explained herself as an artist, as well as clarifying one aspect of the philosophy of an artist. “Some people are proficient at intellectually verbalizing their thoughts,” she said. “I do better in painting.”
Ms. Johnson received her master of fine arts degree from the University of Wisconsin – Madison in 1966. Aside from receiving a [graduate] assistantship in printmaking, her works were reproduced in Artists Proof Magazine.
Ms. Johnson has been chairman of the printmaking department and assistant professor at the Philadelphia College of Art, teaching silk screen, lithography, intaglio, and photomedia since 1967.
She is an active member in numerous professional organizations, including the Rittenhouse Square Exhibition Committee, the Society of American Graphic Artists, the Print Club Artists Committee, Philadelphia Art Alliance-Print Exhibition Committee, Vice-President of the American Color Print Society, the Print Club Board of Governors, and the Philadelphia Water Color Club (Board of Governors 1972-75).
She exhibits frequently and has won awards at the following shows: Prints in America, Graphics – New Mexico, American and the Color Print Society.
Among her various activities, she has held several guest lectureships at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Beaver College, The Print Club, and Nova Scotia College of Art – Fairfax.
