Leasho Johnson
Stud in blue
Lot Closed
September 24, 06:08 PM GMT
Estimate
3,500 - 5,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Leasho Johnson
b.1984
Stud in blue
2021
Signed L.Johnson
Charcoal, watercolor, acrylic, distemper, oil, collage on paper mounted on canvas
22 x 30 x 2 in.
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Acquired directly from Artist in 2021
Leasho Johnson, born in 1984, is a visual artist working primarily in painting, installation, and sculpture. He was born in Montego Bay, Jamaica, and raised in Sheffield, a small town on the outskirts of Negril. Johnson uses his experience growing up Black, queer, and male to explore concepts around forming an identity within the post-colonial condition within Jamaican Dancehall street culture. Working at the conjunction of painting and drawing, Johnson makes characters that live on the edge of perception, visible and invisible at the same time. His work lives to disrupt historical, political, and biological expectations of the Black queer body. Johnson is currently a Leslie Lohman Museum fellow for 2021. A recipient of the New Artist Society Scholarship from the School of Art Institute Chicago 2018–020, he has shown his work in exhibitions at the National Gallery of Jamaica and the New Local Space in Kingston, and spaces in Puerto Rico, Montreal, Paris, Miami, and Belfast, among other places.