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Ynez Johnston

Ynez Johnston (1920 - 2019) was active/lived in California.  Ynez Johnston is known for Modernist naive-views, non objective painting, printmaking.

Painter/printmaker Ynez Johnston was born in 1920 in Berkeley, California. She studied drafting, painting and printmaking at the University of California with Worth Ryder, Erle Loran and Margaret Peterson. Johnston's work is characterized by "jigsaw" shapes reminiscent of primitive designs. Her unique style blends modernism and ancient art forms from her travels to Italy, Mexico, India and Nepal. She has also done 3-dimensional pieces in collaboration with her husband, poet and novelist John Berry, and with ceramic sculptor Adam Mekler.

Her watercolors, oils and etchings of the 1950s and 1960s were rich with complex imagery, and displayed a disciplined and somewhat restrained use of color.

The display of her paintings and etchings in an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York (1951) was the launch of her career as a successful artist.

In later mixed-media pieces, she examined the tactile qualities of surface. The paintings involve the combination, and   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 8866 characters.]  Artist bio

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