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Devin B. Johnson @devinbjohnson 🔥 The Wrath of Eco, 2019 oil, oil stick, spray paint on linen 70 x 80 in 177.8 x 203.2 cm #supportblackart #devinbjohnson #dbj #melodyofamemory #nicodimgallery https://www.instagram.com/p/CBk9tUYhREg/?igshid=kh1gitm16vop

February 2018 IG: @_kwees

@devinbjohnson 🖤 “Black Madonna,”2019. @nicodimgallery 🎨 ‘Sing to me, oh, sparrow come around Come around, why don't you come around? Sing about melody, oh, melody About the things you see Anything you want to sing about Just sing it on out now, sing it on out’ - Marvin Gaye, Sparrow, 1978 Devin B. Johnson approaches the canvas like a musician. You hear his work as much as you see it. His rhythm is architectural and expressive with a heavy textural backbeat. He’ll spray plaster on the substrate to pump up the bass through the subsequent layers. It pulses beneath the spray paint, stains, stamps, drips, acrylic, oil, and oil sticks that put the meat on his figures, riffs, and hooks. His subjects have been through things by the time they emerge, you can hear it in their voices. Johnson paints from improvised, freestyle digital collages sourced from personal and historical imagery arranged into fictional, sentimental situations. Each portrait and tableau is a love song to these intimate, yet universally relatable experiences. The surreal narratives are a visual, emotional onomatopoeia of individual and inherited memories, a vibrant dream journal of the collective consciousness. Johnson’s chiaroscuro is as much Ernie Barnes and Helmut Newton as it is Caravaggio. ‘Melody of a Memory’ is a concept album, melodies of the things Johnson sees sung on out now. Existing between figuration and abstraction, the work is a metaphysical bridge that connects the subjective experience to the ubiquitous. You relate to the work because his music is imprinted in your DNA, your genetic memory. ________ Devin B. Johnson (b. 1992, Los Angeles) obtained his BA in Fine Arts from the California State University of Channel Islands (2015) and received a Masters of Fine Arts at Pratt Institute (2019). He is one of sixteen artists from around the world selected for the inaugural year of the Black Rock Senegal residency, and was featured in the Northeast and MFA issue of New American Paintings (2019). Melody of a Memory is Johnson's first solo exhibition with Nicodim. DEVIN B. JOHNSON: MELODY OF A MEMORY opens in Los Angeles Saturday February 8, 4-7pm. #SupportBlackArt #DevinBJohnson https://www.instagram.com/p/B8H2poSBeP7/?igshid=czf2u2gb0t5r

Devin B. Johnson title - "Unknown"

“Portrait of a Yung Bull,” 2020, by Devin B. Johnson, at the Nicodim Fallery booth at The Armory Show. #painting #portrait #devinbjohnson #nicodimgallery #thearmoryshow #nyc #artfairnyc (at Pier 94) https://www.instagram.com/p/B9c5J-nlV7U/?igshid=fqmashw7c2b

A MUST SEE Congratulations 🙌🏽@devinbjohnson his first solo @nicodimgallery DEVIN B. JOHNSON: MELODY OF A MEMORY #DevinBJohnson approaches the canvas like a musician. You hear his work as much as you see it. His rhythm is architectural and expressive w a heavy textural backbeat. He’ll spray plaster on the substrate to pump up the bass through the subsequent layers. It pulses beneath the spray paint, stains, stamps, drips, acrylic, oil, and oil sticks that put the meat on his figures, riffs, and hooks. His subjects have been through things by the time they emerge, you can hear it in their voices. Johnson paints fr improvised, freestyle digital collages sourced from personal & historical imagery arranged into fictional, sentimental situations. Each portrait and tableau is a love song to these intimate, yet universally relatable experiences. The surreal narratives are a visual, emotional onomatopoeia of individual and inherited memories, a vibrant dream journal of the collective consciousness. Johnson’s chiaroscuro is as much #ErnieBarnes and #HelmutNewton as it is #Caravaggio. ‘Melody of a Memory’ is a concept album, melodies of the things Johnson sees sung on out now. Existing between figuration & abstraction, the work is a metaphysical bridge that connects the subjective experience to the ubiquitous. You relate to the work because his music is imprinted in your DNA, your genetic memory. ________ Devin B. Johnson (b. 1992, Los Angeles) obtained his BA in Fine Arts fr the California State University of Channel Islands (2015) and received a Masters of Fine Arts at Pratt Institute (2019). He is one of sixteen artists fr around the world selected for the inaugural year of the @BlackRockSenegal residency, and was featured in the Northeast & MFA issue of New American Paintings (2019). DEVIN B. JOHNSON: MELODY OF A MEMORY #BlackExcellence #RepresentationMatters #Blkcreatives #blackbeauty #friezela #friezeweek #oscars #NicodimGallery #GaleriaNicodim #DBJ #PrattMFA #blackrocksenegal #BlackHistoryMonth #BHM #BlackFutureMonth #blackart #contemporaryart #blackcontemporaryart #blackrenaissance #blackness #blackpower #blackportraiture #blackwomeninthearts #artcuration (at Nicodim Gallery) https://www.instagram.com/p/B8cEAi1F5Ek/?igshid=o13lx3pgchs9

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