Johnny Abrahams

Artist
b. 1979

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Born in 1979 in Tacoma, WA and currently based in London, Johnny Abrahams constructs his minimalist compositions with bold swathes of color, meticulously executed to produce a striking materiality. The fluid rhythm of his meditative paintings is intermittently disturbed by the occasional void or crevice; the delicate liminal gaps separating distinct geometric forms, whether they be painted shapes or stretched canvases stacked on top of one another, become a point of simultaneous contention and harmony. Abrahams considers these negative spaces—or “secondary images” as he calls them—a key aspect of his continuous pursuit of “an uneasy truce between stability and tension.” The marked tactility of his work, enhanced through the application of dense oil-and-wax paint on naturally porous burlap, humanizes the clinical aspects of hard-edge abstraction by intertwining cerebral concepts with sensory experience.

The artist’s recent solo exhibitions include Sympatheia, Vigo Gallery (London, 2024); Therapy Apple, Vigo Gallery (London, 2023); Will it get some wind for the sails, Sunday-S Gallery (Copenhagen, 2023); Dog’s Dinner, Jack Hanley Gallery (New York, 2023); and Primaries, Romer Young Gallery (San Francisco, 2022). He has shown his work extensively in both solo and group presentations across the globe.

<SOLO EXHIBITIONS>
2024 年
「Sympatheia」Vigo Gallery(ロンドン)
2023 年
「Therapy Apple」Vigo Gallery(ロンドン)
「Will it get some wind for the sails」Sunday-S Gallery(コペンハーゲン)
Independent Art Fair, Sophie Treppendahl との二人展, Jack Hanley Gallery(ニューヨーク)
「Dog’s Dinner」Jack Hanley Gallery(ニューヨーク)
2022 年
「Primaries」Romer Young Gallery(サンフランシスコ)
「the natural solace of labor」Sunday-S Gallery(コペンハーゲン)
「You & I Are Earth, 1661」Vigo Gallery(ロンドン)
「The very color of welcome」Sunday-S Gallery(コペンハーゲン)
2021 年
「Liths」Choi and Lager(ソウル)
The Armory Show, ススム・カミジョウとの二人展, Jack Hanley Gallery(ニューヨーク)
Otis Jones との二人展, Sunday-S Gallery(コペンハーゲン)
「After Hyacinth, After Anemone」Vigo Gallery(ロンドン)
「Red weakens an hour」Jack Hanley Gallery(ニューヨーク州イーストハンプトン)
Bosco Sodi との二人展, Sunday-S Gallery(コペンハーゲン)
「In the divinely human state of nobodiness」Jack Hanley Gallery(ニューヨーク)
「A Sprint for the Idler」Romer Young Gallery(サンフランシスコ)
2020 年
「Archaic torso of Apollo」Sunday-S Gallery(コペンハーゲン)
「The Hare Beneath the Harrow」Romer Young Gallery(サンフランシスコ)
「Making Flowers Alive」Choi and Lager(ケルン)
「The Dark Side / The Bright Side」Davide Baliano との二人展,
Bjorn and Gundorph Gallery(デンマーク、オーフス)
2018 年
「I am the tortoise, but also the cat and the dog」Vigo Gallery(ロンドン)
Independent Brussels, Vigo Gallery(ブリュッセル)
「10 Paintings」Choi and Lager(ソウル)
2015 年
「x, y, zero」Jack Hanley Gallery(ニューヨーク)
2013 年
「Interference Study」Vigo Gallery(ロンドン)
「Conclusion: Inconclusive」Jack Hanley Gallery(ニューヨーク)

<GROUP EXHIBITIONS>
2024 年
「Assembly 3」Assembly(ニューヨーク州モンティチェロ)
2023 年
NADA Miami, Jack Hanley Gallery(マイアミ)
2022 年
「Ways of Seeing」JARILAGER Gallery(ケルン)
「Hidden UK, Hidden Ireland」curated by Sean Scully, Flowers Gallery(ロンドン)

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