Collector Daily
By Loring Knoblauch
October 28, 2020
“Johnson’s newest body of work, using images of the forests from her native Manitoba as her central subject matter, seems to have found the exact right note for our current moment – just as we all descend into a deeper gloom driven by the combination of the ongoing pandemic and the polarized election, her pictures have come along to deliver a radiant sparkle of joy.”
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Art Gallery of Ontario
Toronto, ON
November 7, 2020 to January 31, 2021
“Organized by the Art Gallery of Ontario, I Am Here: Home Movies and Everyday Masterpieces will open November 7, 2020 and run until January 31, 2021. The exhibition brings together myriad expressions of a universal human impulse: the desire to record our daily lives.
This impulse dates back at least 40,000 years, to the era of cave paintings, and has been a persistent feature of our civilization ever since, appearing in hundreds of different forms. Paintings, prints, drawings and photographs appear in this ambitious exhibition alongside personal photo albums, Polaroids, diaries, time capsules and, notably, home movies.”
Hyperallergic
By Seph Rodney
May 30, 2019
“Sarah Anne Johnson, though most of her images don’t contain bodies, showed fascinating manipulations of the medium by using three-dimensional objects inserted through the photograph to make the images take on the import of stage backdrop. in “Sun (Bump)” (2018) an onyx ball pushes through the photo of a landscape where the sun might be, except here, the sun is in eclipse and much closer than it should be. Most of Johnson’s work is set in the desert where obelisks and trees sprout as artistic interventions that make these landscapes forbidding and vaguely inhospitable.”
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