Jess Johnson

Born in New Zealand, lives and works in New Zealand and New York.

JESS JOHNSON is a New Zealand born artist whose artwork reflects ideologies of technology and flesh, both ancient and futuristic. Extending into installation, video, VR, and fashion, her fictional world is initially developed by hand through her drawings. She lives and works between New York and New Zealand. Johnson’s elaborate drawings works are characterized by their depictions of genderless humanoid figures from alternative realms, alien creatures with facial features reminiscent of bats, and worm-like tubes snaking across architectural structures from times unknown –luring viewers into a highly condensed illusion where elements that influenced her such as intercultural patterns and symbols, horror movies and science-fiction, and the world of early video games, integrate and coalesce.

出生於紐西蘭，現常駐於紐西蘭及紐約。

傑斯·約翰遜是一位紐西蘭藝術家，其作品從古代文明和未來主義兩個方向出發探討有關科技和肉身的意識形態。最初她於繪畫作品中創建其虛構世界，而現在已經擴展到立體裝置、影片、虛擬現實和時尚等多個層面。她來回於紐約和新西蘭之間生活和工作。約翰遜細緻而充滿個人風格的素描作品描繪了來自不同領域的無性別人形角色；其面部特徵讓人聯想到類似蝙蝠的外星生物，以及從未知的時空中蜿蜒穿過建築結構的蠕蟲狀管子——她引誘着觀眾一同進入一個高度壓縮的幻覺世界，並把在她生命出產生影響的元素，如跨文化模式和符號、恐怖電影和科幻小說、以及早期的電子遊戲世界等融合在畫布之上。

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