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The Sydney Magazine May 09

Annemarie Lopez

Abstract artist Michael Johnson's vivid grid-like paintings use colour to create energy, His works are inspired by Australian colours - rivers, oceans and earth pigments, even the luminescent patina of a beetle. He believes paintings should not be viewed but "experienced". In Vesuvius (pictured) a volcano rains down pigmens, while the gentler Komodo Night evokes tides and shifting sands., light and moon, water currents and hidden organisims. Johnson's work drags abstraction from its sometimes aloof, intellectual loft out onto the dancefloor. 

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