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From D.C. Artist Mariah Anne Johnson
Memory has always been an important component of my artwork. Ever since I progressed from classroom assignments to making self-generated work during my senior year of college, I have in one way or another focused on memory: its mutability, its failings, and its rich sensory associations. My interest in these subjects stems from my having grown up in the American South, where culture is focused on the past, and family histories are preserved in language, objects, and gestures.
 | Johnson spoke last spring about her work. After the talk, visitors made mini-instillations inspired by her work.
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I am in good company in my use of memory in my art; artists throughout human history have used their work to remember or memorialize people, places, and events. The American Art Museum's collection holds many examples of these kinds of works in the Luce Center, among my favorites are the memory vessels in the folk art pottery case. I admire their richly textured surfaces and whimsical juxtapositions of forms and objects. The longer I look at these works, the more I find to see! Join me at the Luce Center on October 28 to talk more about these objects and the role memory plays in artmaking. |
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