biografía de Ynez JOHNSTON (1920-2019)

Lugar de nacimiento: Berkeley, CA

Direcciones: Los Angeles, CA

Profesión: Painter, printmaker, sculptor, teacher

Estudios: Univ. Calif., Berkeley (M.F.A., 1946) with Worth Ryder, Erle Loran and Margaret Peterson; traveled to Mexico in 1941 with Univ. of Calif. scholarship grant

Exposiciones: SFMA, 1943 (1st solo), 1949 (Ann Bremer Award), 1967 (retrospective for her graphics);; New Talent Show, MoMA, 1951; Am. Ann. Watercolor, MMA, 1952 (1st prize); The West-80 Contemporaries, Univ. Arizona, Tucson, 1967; PAFA Ann., 1968; Mostra Int. delta Grafica, Unione Florentina, Florence, Italy, 1968-69; "Four Printmakers," Calif. Inst. Tech., 1969; WMAA; Jodi Scully Gal., Los Angeles, 1970s. Special awards: Guggenheim grant, 1952 (for travel in Italy); Louis Comfort Tiffany award in painting & graphics, 1955 & 1956; Fulbright research grant, 1964 (for travel in India); Yaddo grant"

Obra: SFMA; WMAA; Wadsworth Atheneum, CT; MMA, NYC; MoMA; PMA. Commissions: etchings, Int. Graphic Arts Soc., NYC, 1958-60, 1962 & 1964; etchings, Roten Gals., Baltimore, MD, 1966-67; drawings, Wash. Gal. Modern Art, DC, 1965.

Comentarios: Johnston blends modernism and ancient art forms from Persia, China, and India. She has created in a variety of media, including painting (on canvas and silk), etching, decorated ceramics, and sculpture (in which she constructs mythic beasts from flat wooden pieces cut into abstract shapes and painted). In 1953, she married poet and novelist John Berry. The two have collaborated on a number of projects. Teaching: Colorado Springs FAC; Chouinard AI; Calif. State College; Univ. of Judaism; Otis AI.

Fuentes: WW73; Rubinstein, American Women Artists, 295-96; Henry Seldis, Woman of the Year in Art," Los Angeles Times, 1959; Gerald Nordland, review-exhibit in Art News, 1962; review-exhibit in Art Int., 1970; "Modernism in California Printmaking," Nov. 1998, brochure from The Annex Galleries; Falk, Exh. Record Series.