Sarah Anne Johnson: Arctic Wonderland
Sarah Anne Johnson Bubble 2011 © Sarah Anne Johnson Courtesy Stephen Bulger Gallery
In our Fall 2011 issue, critic Nancy Tousley examines Sarah Anne Johnson’s Arctic Wonderland, a series of photographs featuring Arctic landscapes with fantastical alterations: buildings and confetti grace the tops of glaciers; vibrant, smoky fireworks fill the expansive northern sky. The result of an expeditionary residency to Norway’s Svalbard archipelago, the works combine a celebration of the Arctic’s beauty with the artist’s awareness of its precarious future. Johnson creates, in Tousley’s words, “a place suspended in past/present/future time, whose character is in part a pristine wilderness, a theme park and a magnificent fragile ruin.” Additional images from Arctic Wonderland are presented here.
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