Elizabeth Johnson

Elizabeth Johnson is an oil painter, art writer, and guest curator, based in Easton, Pennsylvania. Her landscape paintings fuse realism and abstraction by interlocking distorted photographic images and lush surfaces.

November 2025ArtSeen

Lafleur & Bogaert in New York

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Lafleur & Bogaert in New York marks years of trans-Atlantic association. The exhibition presents three evolving bodies of work that suggest establishment art gaining in the long term as it cedes ground—slowly, voluntarily and involuntarily—to under-represented art made in isolated, precarious conditions.

Lafleur & Bogaert, Drapo Oies, 2025. Oil on canvas and modified antique church banner, 25 × 30 inches. Courtesy the artists and FROSCH&CO.

March 2025ArtSeen

Barbara Friedman: All Rude and Lumpy Matter

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New York-based artist Barbara Friedman, who is stylistically rooted in Bay Area figurative and California funk art traditions, presents rebellion against the seriousness of Abstract Expressionism and Color Field painting in All Rude and Lumpy Matter, a frisky mediation of chance surprises.

Barbara Friedman, Bottom Feeder, ca. 2024. Oil on linen, 44 x 37 inches. Courtesy the artist and FROSCH&CO.

June 2023ArtSeen

David Henderson: Disturbances

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David Henderson’s solo exhibition, Disturbances, at Slag features CAD-designed sculptures whose intricate, continuous surfaces challenge the mind with labyrinthine change. Designs that might seem unapproachable on the computer feel warm, intriguing and otherworldly after being fabricated from layers of plywood, foam, or fiberglass.
David Henderson, Widening Gyre 6, 2021. Plywood and beeswax, 25 x 11 x 9 inches. Courtesy SLAG & RX and David Henderson. Photo: David Henderson.

February 2023ArtSeen

Don Doe: I’ll Have What They’re Having

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I’ll Have What They’re Having highlights Don Doe’s constructive/destructive visual devices that challenge viewers to juggle and decode multiple pictures and surfaces.
Don Doe, Folk Dance, 2020. Oil on canvas, 48 x 36 inches. Courtesy 490 Atlantic Gallery.

May 2022ArtSeen

Nancy Graves: Synecdoche II

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Complementing Synecdoche (December 2013 – January 2014), Locks Gallery presents Synecdoche II, a collection of Nancy Graves’s mid-1970s paintings and drawings that evolved from her “Lunar Orbiter” series, which extrapolates NASA lunar surface maps into fragmentary, mysterious, abstract spaces.
Nancy Graves, Plektra, 1976. Oil on canvas, 64 x 88 inches. Courtesy Locks Gallery, Philadelphia.

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