ART LISTINGS:  JANUARY 2025 BRIAN JOHNSON, Mixed Media; Exhibit Beginning:  JANUARY 1, 2025 Exhibits Ending: JANUARY 30, 2025 2nd Saturday OPENING RECEPTION:  SATURDAY, JANUARY 11h, 3-5 PM Location:  GALLERY AT MARINA SQUARE, 601 EMBARCADERO, SUITE 10, MORRO BAY, CA 93442 Event Contact Number:  805-772-1068 Gallery Hours:  11am to 5pm daily Upper Gallery Featured Artist:  BRIAN JOHNSON, Mixed Media Artist Statement: Brian Johnson is a passionate artist, known for abstracting reality.  His work all originated from snapping photos of  reality.  Unlike most abstract artists, he doesn’t start from a blank slate.  Brian’s work has a distinct and unusual process, but he does not intend for the process of his work to be its narrative.  Instead, Brian is goal oriented while working on art, which is unusual given that he is more often a process-first-centered-thinker.  Brian is open to experimenting in order to reach surprising and interesting enigmatic artistic ends.  Brian’s abstract work pursues the 400+ year old philosophical art term: the sublime. What is the Sublime? The sublime was a prominent art term and visual pursuit, particularly in the 18th and 19th centuries.  However in it’s heyday, the sublime was pictorially sought through naturalistic landscape paintings. Products which are very different from Brian’s abstract work.In aesthetics, the sublime (from the Latin sublīmis) is the quality of greatness, whether physical, moral, intellectual, metaphysical, aesthetic, spiritual, or artistic. The term especially […]