Michael Johnson left Sydney travelling to Europe and then London at the beginning of the 1960s. He was drawn to New York at the end of the decade by a magnetic art world where pop art and the hard-edged school of painting were thriving.
Johnson’s early hard-edge abstractions in searing colour challenged audiences. The calculated geometric compositions, scaled to the artist’s body and modular wall of the studio or gallery, were vividly felt responses to his surroundings; disciplined images from a ceaseless mind that was distilling the electrifying stimuli of the times.
Annette Larkin Fine Art
Until 14 June 2014
Sydney
Sofala, 1964, Lefranc Flash Vinylic on cotton duck canvas, 176.5 x 176.5cm
Courtesy Annette Larkin Fine Art, Sydney
