{"id":8971,"date":"2011-12-14T22:44:35","date_gmt":"2011-12-15T03:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/?p=8971"},"modified":"2011-12-14T23:14:42","modified_gmt":"2011-12-15T04:14:42","slug":"ezra-johnson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/the-bomb\/2011\/12\/14\/ezra-johnson\/","title":{"rendered":"~EZRA JOHNSON"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EZRA JOHNSON . .  . has a sweet, fleeting, lyrical and ultimately very compelling, painterly to the extreme &#8211; low-fi animation looping in the FREIGHT+VOLUME project room. I can&#8217;t remember a sound track &#8211; but I remember standing motionless  &#8211; as it kept turning unexpected corners. titled &#8216;Five Kinds of Light&#8217; &#8211; it&#8217;s up through Jan 14, 2012. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Ezra-Johnson-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Ezra-Johnson-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Ezra-Johnson-#-1\" width=\"576\" height=\"432\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8972\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Ezra-Johnson-1.jpg 576w, https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Ezra-Johnson-1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nit begins with a guitar player . . .<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/ezra-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/ezra-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"ezra-#-2\" width=\"576\" height=\"432\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8973\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/ezra-2.jpg 576w, https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/ezra-2-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nbathed in dramatic light &#8211; flickering between abstraction and substance.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/ezra-3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/ezra-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"ezra-#-3\" width=\"576\" height=\"432\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8974\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/ezra-3.jpg 576w, https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/ezra-3-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nthen somehow you&#8217;ve found it&#8217;s become a pick-up truck and a group of people . . .<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/ezra-4.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/ezra-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"ezra-#-4\" width=\"576\" height=\"432\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8975\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/ezra-4.jpg 576w, https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/ezra-4-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nwhich morphs into a wonderful &#8216;cosmic&#8217; tunnel  . . .  that becomes, train tracks. and it is suddenly, for the moment,  sharp, and linear. . . <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/ezra-5.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/ezra-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"ezra--5\" width=\"576\" height=\"432\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8976\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/ezra-5.jpg 576w, https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/ezra-5-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nturning into . . . a stairway.  to heaven ? or just a mosaic-like residence ? and lands . . .  though not finally &#8211; in a courtyard surrounded by multiple dwellings, rising up around &#8212; a tree.<br \/>\nnice.  <\/p>\n<p>EZRA JOHNSON &#8211; &#8216;FIVE KINDS OF LIGHT&#8217;.<br \/>\nDec 10, 2011 &#8211; Jan 14, 2012<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.freightandvolume.com\">FREIGHT+VOLUME<\/a><\/p>\n<p>PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EZRA JOHNSON . . . has a sweet, fleeting, lyrical and ultimately very compelling, painterly to the extreme &#8211; low-fi animation looping in the FREIGHT+VOLUME project room. 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