Janis Pozzi-Johnson Sold at Auction Prices

Janis Pozzi-Johnson’s oil paintings possess a powerful sense of self-awareness; they are strikingly confident in their ability to remain calm. Her color-field canvases can, at times, feel stoic, other times elusive and yet always exist in a state of resolve. She is able to capture the essence of the natural world and her own emotional experience in a way that is seemingly not fixed in time. Her personal experience becomes universal. Pozzi-Johnson translates her life’s experiences of loss and unexpected regeneration into visual poetry.

The works engage the viewer with their constant search for stillness. Through a language of undulating, nuanced surfaces, intimate interaction with the physicality of the paint, and hundreds of layers of color, Pozzi-Johnson’s response to life’s mysteries takes form. The paintings are suffused with a strong sense of human presence and the inherent engagement of spirit. Abstract references to water, sky, earth and air rise to the surface within viscous color fields as visual metaphors for the often ineffable experiences of the human heart.

Belief and re-imagining, ambiguity and certainty, grief and grace, loss and spiritual tenacity are the highly personal yet universal realities which imbue Pozzi-Johnson’s paintings.