David Johnson
1018001
2012
digital photograph

1018001 is a restrained commentary working through tropes of historical art, photography and architecture. Eschewing the need for central narrative the work references light as an ephemeral, perhaps spiritual, substance. While easily referencing Vermeer’s light bathed windows or the faint glow of light (the departing soul) in David’s Le Mort de Marat, the work blithely reflects modernists painting pursuits and compositions –Bruce Nauman, Brice Marden, or Callum Innes. Beautiful in its banality, the work subversively comments on the stark blandness of corporate architecture: one must enter a mindless state of abstraction to find meaning in this place.

~Ryder Richards