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Daniel LaRue Johnson
American, 1938-2017
Daniel LaRue Johnson was born in Los Angeles and studied at the Chouinard Art Institute in the early 1960s, making assemblage works addressing the civil rights crisis in the U.S., and showing in major Los Angeles galleries. In 1965, he went to Paris with the artist Virginia Jaramillo, his wife, and then moved to New York, where he shifted his practice to abstract painting and sculpture, distinguished by saturated color and meticulous craftmanship. Johnson is also known for a series of significant public commemorative sculptures, including Peace Form One (1980), dedicated to Ralph Bunche, across from the United Nations Headquarters in New York.
“Color talks of power, sex, lust and life. A motivating spirit that makes my mind see changing patterns of color is the music of Charles Lloyd and Miles Davis.”
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