{"id":12791,"date":"2019-11-30T13:14:27","date_gmt":"2019-11-30T12:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.janinebeangallery.com\/en\/?page_id=12791"},"modified":"2026-05-20T13:20:55","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T12:20:55","slug":"james-johnston","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.janinebeangallery.com\/en\/?page_id=12791","title":{"rendered":"James Johnston"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Space Between<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>Group Exhibition<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>July 3 \u2013 August 15, 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Opening Reception: July 3, 6 \u2013 8 PM<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Featuring works by Maxwell Dunlop, Marie Louise Elshout, Armando Mari\u00f1o, MASCH, and James Johnston, this exhibition brings together international artistic perspectives from the USA, Cuba, the Netherlands, Great Britain, and Germany.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:25% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"397\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.janinebeangallery.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_4436-397x500.jpg\" alt=\"James Johnston\" class=\"wp-image-19086 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.janinebeangallery.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_4436-397x500.jpg 397w, https:\/\/www.janinebeangallery.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_4436-238x300.jpg 238w, https:\/\/www.janinebeangallery.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_4436-768x967.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.janinebeangallery.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_4436-1220x1536.jpg 1220w, https:\/\/www.janinebeangallery.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_4436.jpg 1230w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 397px) 100vw, 397px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>James Johnston (born 1966) is also known as a musician with Gallon Drunk, Nick Cave &amp; The Bad Seeds as well as PJ Harvey, and has established himself as a painter in recent years. His first paintings were created on tour in hotel rooms; today, he works daily in his studio.<br>His paintings are figurative, raw, and expressive: bold colors, loose structures, and scenes full of mythic intensity characterize his visual language. Animals, nature, and solitary figures appear as mirrors of the human condition.<br><strong>Nick Cave<\/strong> describes his works as <strong>\u201epaintings full of mythic power.\u201c <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Johnston&#8217;s paintings are not a counterpoint to music, but rather an expression of the same immediate energy and archaic power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.janinebeangallery.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/janinebeangallery_QA_James_Johnston_14-9-2025_EN.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Q &amp; A James Johnston<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Space Between Group Exhibition July 3 \u2013 August 15, 2026 Opening Reception: July 3, 6 \u2013 8 PM Featuring works by Maxwell Dunlop, Marie Louise Elshout, Armando Mari\u00f1o, MASCH, and James Johnston, this exhibition brings together international artistic perspectives from the USA, Cuba, the Netherlands, Great Britain, and Germany.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-12791","page","type-page","status-publish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.janinebeangallery.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.janinebeangallery.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.janinebeangallery.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.janinebeangallery.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.janinebeangallery.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12791"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.janinebeangallery.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19645,"href":"https:\/\/www.janinebeangallery.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12791\/revisions\/19645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.janinebeangallery.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}