2010 Events

June 26th - July 29th:  "Waxing Poetic" - a solo exhibition of 16 large pieces, will be on display in the auditorium of the Wilmette Public Library.  The opening reception will be on Saturday the 26th, from 2:30-5:00.

April 20th- May 7th:  "Vicissitude" has been chosen for the 12th annual Chicago Art Open and will on display at the River East Art Center, 435 East Illinois Street

April 24th 2010:  Katsy Johnson will now be represented by the Perspective Group and Gallery, located at 1310 Chicago Avenue in Evanston, Illinois.  Grand opening is May 15th.

January 10-February 14, 2010.  "Egress" will be on display at the Evanston Art Center for the "Focus on Metals and Photography" Show.  Over 90 submissions by EAC students were juried by Mary O'Shaughnessy, a member of the EAC exhibitions committee, only  12 pieces were chosen!

2009 Events

From the San Diego Art Institute May - June Journal, written by the guest artist Elana Lomakin when asked to choose her favorite piece from the 50th Annual  International Show:

"it was "House of the White Irises by Katsy Johnson I chose to write about.  This encaustic print looked so familiar to me that I first thought it was done by a Russian born artist.  From my very childhood I remember old photographs taken at the beginning of the 20th century of Russian country houses called "dacha".  "House of the White Irises" instantly reminded me of the ever moving pictures of Russian Intelligentsia and their world destroyed forever after the Revolution of 1917.  The artist's beautiful statement says that it is an abandoned house, but it does not look like one to me, because of the strongest associations with those turn of the century pictures I remembered earlier.  For me, as for many other Russians, the images like this one belong to the generation immortalized by Chekov in his Plays and Stories.  Looking at this photograph, so delicately and lovingly taken, where the use of encaustic makes it even more fragile and lost in time, I can still feel the warmth of the sun drenched old house, and I would imagine an orchard behind it (could it be a Cherry Orchard?), where the guests accompanied by the owners went to, and a seagull crying at a nearby lake, and a young girl confused in her feelings for someone...Everything that Chekhov was poetizing, the Soviets took away from their people.  That is why melancholy falls upon me as if I too lost something dear to me - something that I have never even known."

November 8th - December 8th:  The photographs "Curtain Call" and "Overshoes" were chosen for the 2009 Annual Photography Open in Gary, Indiana.  "Curtain Call" was awarded honorable mention by Susan Aurinko, International Photographer and Art Consultant, Chicago, Il. 

October 8th - November 2:  "House of the White Irises" will be on display during "FUSED: Art and Wax in Chicago".  Located at the Fine Arts Building, 410 S. Michigan Ave in the Ossia Gallery.

October 1st - October 31st:  "House of the Satin Shoes"  has been chosen for the 2009 Evanston Art Walk, and will be on display at Perennials, 2022 Central Street in Evanston.

May 15th - June 27th: "Adele" will be on display during the 28th Annual Friends of the Wilmette Library Show.  Juried by Jane Fulton Alt, Kathy Cunningham and Katherine Hilden.  Winner, 3rd place.  Solo Show awarded, scheduled for fall 2010.

March 29 - June 19th:  "The Iris House Porch"  will be on display during the Encaustic Works '09 Biennial Juried Art Show at the Castle Gallery, Westchester, New York.  Juried by Julie Hutchinson.

March 21st - May 10th:  "House of the White Irises"  will be on display during the SDAI 50th Annual International Arts Show at the San Diego Art Institute.  Juried by Julia Marciari Alexander, Phd., History of Art, Yale University Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs.  Winner, Media Services Award

January 1st-February 1st:  Solo Exhibition Extended, Art and Science Salon, 611 Church Street, Evanston Il.

2008 Events:

October 6th 2008 - January 1st 2009:  Solo Exhibition, Art And Science Salon, 611 Church Street, Evanston, Illinois

July 2008: Evanston Art Center Biennial Student Show.  "Canoe at Round Top Lake" (SOLD.  Winner "Honorable Mention").