The Joshua Tree Highlands artist-in-residence will hold an online studio tour on Thursday, August 6. Hilary Sloane tells how you can be a part of that tour…
Bethany Johnson has been an artist-in-residence at the Joshua Tree Highlands for the past six weeks. Johnson collects discarded materials and laminates them into composite forms that resemble rock strata and that gesture at the anthropogenic geology of landfills. On Thursday, August 6, Johnson will hold a virtual studio tour to talk about the work she has created during her time in Joshua Tree. The online tour is set for 3 p.m. More information about how to access the Zoom tour is available below.
When: Thursday, August 6th at 3pm Pacific (12pm Eastern)
Zoom link: https://txstate.zoom.us/j/9722272052
Meeting ID: 972 227 2052
Bethany’s works offer visual meditations on our natural world, as well as on our variously effective human attempts to capture, understand, and control environmental phenomena. Recently, her works have turned more toward the harm humans enact on the landscape; in her practice, Bethany seeks to perform humble repairs and quiet reflections on that damage. In the sculptural works developed at JTHAR, Bethany collects discarded materials and laminates them into composite forms that resemble rock strata and that gesture at the anthropogenic geology of landfills. The satin surfaces evoke the hand-worn patina of worry stones, and the mystifying transformation of the materials offers a new alchemical life to otherwise discarded waste.
