Author Profile

Johanna Poethig is a visual and public artist and performance artist who has exhibited internationally, creating paintings, public art works, murals, sculpture and multimedia installations. I received the prestigious California Arts Council Individual Artist Legacy Award in 2021 for my work that bridges diverse concepts and communities in an evolving public sphere. My practice plays between realism and abstract forms, architectural and intimate scales, historic and present day politics, futurist musings, humor, satire, a feminist point of view, collaborative processes, science and cultural critique. In my current work, in the midst of climate crisis, the patterns in nature’s terrestrial and extraterrestrial life systems are expressed by creating experiential landscapes, surrealistic portraits and texts that come together in a speculative storytelling.