Gretta Johnson

Gretta Johnson’s drawings embody multiple identities, pushing and pulling themselves between abstraction and figuration. The works float on the wall—appearing as psychically driven icons and mutable cyborg bodies that speak to an ever present need to both assert and adapt. The works are engaged in a complicated play on desire, whether it be a luscious fur coat marred by noticeable absences or a writhing red-robed torso locked into a relaxed repose by the legs of a chair. Her rigorously pressed and rubbed works on paper take on a psychological density while physically remaining nearly weightless.

Johnson has had exhibitions at Safe Gallery and Culture Room in Brooklyn.

Courtesy of Feuer/Mesler