Has Your Life Taken a Turn?

“Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.” -John Lennon

I’m reading John Lennon, 1980: The Last Days in the Life by Kenneth Womack. Despite the somber tilt of the title, the book is a celebration of Lennon’s final year, a time of creative reawakening and success. It is a reminder of the principle that you just don’t know what something is until you see it fully. An ending can be beautiful, a beginning can be fraught. In life, the only guarantee is that we simply can’t know until we arrive.

Devin B. Johnson joined us to discuss his work and exhibitions with Nicodim Gallery. He described the creation of his painting A Moment in Crossing, which depicts a photo taken from an Uber. Johnson explained that he will sometimes use Photoshop to alter a photograph, playing with color and adding overlays that, in a sense, simulate the process of absorbing the minutia of the moment. To learn more about Johnson’s process, work and exhibitions, listen to the complete interview.

Molly Lowe sat down with us to talk about some of her work that recently appeared in the group show Getting to Ick at Hesse Flatow Gallery. Lowe’s work sits at a crossroads of figurative and abstract, and she tends to consider how much information she wants to give the viewer. Working from her imagination only, Lowe keeps her imagery loose and not quite identifiable while still creating something believable. To learn more, listen to the complete interview.

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