[JEANSELLEM VIEWER] — KARL JOHNSON GLASMÅLARE 5 -24.01.1973 — Categories: press, docs — Keywords: Galerie S:t Petri, Jean Sellem, archive — Category: press — IN OUR MIDSTKarl Johnson, who is exhibiting paintings on glass at Galerie S:t Petri, says that he “caricatures reality and social problems.” Perhaps he does. But if a caricature is an image in which certain characteristics are emphasised and exaggerated to make them more visible, Karl Johnson’s paintings are not exactly caricatures.In any case, the paintings are explosions of colour; their support—the glass—illuminates the colour from within. It sprays, splashes, runs, drips, crawls, flows and disappears into labyrinths. Sometimes it grows feet and walks. Here and there, rubber-like elastic creatures spin around—animals, human beings and others. There are people who maliciously contract into petty bacilli, and there are gentle animals that inflate into fat girls. They chase and stumble over one another. The sun bursts open like a flower, and houses collapse. In the middle of it all, women’s breasts grow in clusters and pink buttocks take the shape of plump hearts.The whole is animated, chaotic, dizzying, parodic and somewhat haphazard.Viola Robertson — — — Category: press — GLASS PAINTER EXHIBITSCaption: Karl Johnson exhibits in Lund.Karl Johnson, an American-born glass painter, is exhibiting at Galerie S:t Petri in Lund from 5 to 24 January. After abandoning his medical studies, he began studying at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1963.A journey to India between 1968 and 1970 proved decisive for the development of the painting now presented in the Lund exhibition. Alongside his studies in India, Karl Johnson directed the art department at John Connon’s Cathedral School in Bombay.In 1970, he received the American-Scandinavian Foundation’s Thord Grey Fellowship to study art and psychology at Lund University and has lived here ever since.In his paintings on glass, Karl Johnson uses a technique derived from Indian batik. Instead of wax, glue is used to cover the lines that are to remain unpainted. This makes it possible to vary the intensity of the colours. The pigments are applied with a brush and with chemical agents that either attract or repel the colour. The paintings convey a social and moral message. — — — Category: press — INDIAN-INSPIRED GLASS PAINTING AT GALERIE S:T PETRICaption: Karl Johnson with one of his works.Karl Johnson, an American-born glass painter, is exhibiting at Galerie S:t Petri from 5 to 24 January. He uses a technique derived from Indian batik. Instead of wax, glue is used to cover the lines that are to remain unpainted. The pigments are applied with a brush and with chemical agents that either attract or repel the colour.After abandoning his medical studies, he began studying at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1963. A journey to India between 1968 and 1970 was decisive for the development of the painting now shown in Lund. Alongside his studies in India, Karl Johnson directed the art department at John Connon’s Cathedral School in Bombay. — — — Category: docs — — — Category: docs — — — Category: docs — — — — — — — Category: press — OPENINGS — LundGalerie S:t Petri, S:t Petri Kyrkogata 5, 5–8 p.m.Karl Johnson — glass painter. — — — Category: press — GLASS PAINTER AT S:T PETRI PRESENTS WORKS WITH A MESSAGELUND: Karl Johnson, an American-born glass painter, is exhibiting at Galerie S:t Petri in Lund from 5 to 24 January. He presents paintings with a social and moral message.A journey to India between 1968 and 1970 was decisive for the development of the painting he now presents in Lund. Alongside his studies in India, Karl Johnson directed the art department at John Connon’s Cathedral School in Bombay.In 1970, he received the American-Scandinavian Foundation’s Thord Grey Fellowship to study art and psychology at Lund University and has lived here ever since.In his paintings on glass, he employs a technique derived from Indian batik. Instead of wax, glue is used to cover the lines that are to remain unpainted. This makes it possible to vary the intensity of the colours. The pigments are applied with a brush and with chemical agents that either attract or repel the colour.“Rather than painting a realistic picture, I use childlike patterns and comic-strip-like representations to caricature reality and social problems. I believe people can accept the criticism more easily in this way,” says Karl Johnson.Caption: Karl Johnson with one of his paintings on glass. — — — Category: docs — —