(2026) A Wayward Current
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The steady presence of vast natural landscapes that have endured the ages, offers comfort and a kind of universal truth, a contrast to the uncertain economic and technological shifts of modern society. Where our path leads is unknown, but slowing down to attune to what is, and always has been, is grounding.

(2025) Ascent

Through moments of confusion and chaos, we rise — surfacing with agency, buoyancy, and renewed momentum.

(2023-24) This Magic Moment

Capturing and creating fleeting moments of whimsy and wonder.

(2021) Deep Waters

In a complex year checkered with grief and trauma, rest and resilience, we somehow learned to swim right before we began to drown. Parenthood especially felt harder than ever as we navigated working from home, school at home, and our own physical and mental well-being during a time of narrowing options. Amidst harrowing health scares and racial trauma, parents determined what to share with their children, what to shield them from, and how to preserve moments of joy.

Artist, mother, and educator Lindsay Johnson constructed these narrative works on panels with acrylic, photographs, or found material to reconstruct moments in time, ideas, and dreams during the Covid-19 pandemic. The blue used throughout many of these works are made from disposable surgical masks, placed as sky, to emphasize the invisible yet inescapable force that both pulled us apart and under, and propelled us forward and together." 

​- show statement, Side Street Studio Arts, 2021