Tsehai Johnson
Fields

This July has been a busy month for Denver-based artist Tsehai Johnson.  Along with finishing a new exhibition, Fields, for BMoCA, Johnson was put into the political hot seat for a body of work loosely based on sex toys produced in 2000.  Weathering the storm, she will unveil a thought-provoking installation based on “domestic space” referencing human anatomy and everyday hand tools.  She states, “In this work an object of beauty becomes embedded with references to the labor involved in making a beautiful, orderly and clean home.  There is plenty of beauty, poetry, and drudgery in both art making and homemaking and in making these large installations, I am interested in alluding to these overlaps inherent in domestic life.”

Johnson’s recent exhibitions include Anomaly at the Fort Collins Museum of Contemporary Art, the Exhibition of the Sixth Taiwan Golden Ceramics Award at the Taipei Ceramics Museum in 2000 and Regarding Gloria at White Columns in New York in 2002.  She was a recipient of the Colorado Council for the Arts Artist Fellowship in 2003.