Katsy Johnson is a lover of lost causes, who is often found photographing edifices done awry by the caprices of fate, or sometimes can’t be found at all when shooting distant locales that humanity fled long ago. A journalism major from Texas, she studied photography in Paris before honing her skills in the basement photo lab at the old Evanston Art Center.  There she met a talented crew, with several of whom she became a start-up member at Perspective Gallery 12 years ago.

Usually layering her photography with different paint mediums, Katsy has shown her mixed media work from coast to coast in museums and galleries, winning a commendation in Charles Osgood’s “National Exposure” and Best in Show from the Chicago Association of Visual Artists.