Journal article
Pretty pictures, big stories: Tim Johnson: Painting ideas
I McLean
Eyeline | Eyeline | Published : 2010
Abstract
The exhibition, 'Tim Johnson: Painting Ideas', begins in the early 1970s with Johnson's droll fixation on miniskirts blowin' in the wind, and ends with the sugary spiritualism of his contemporary paintings. The New Wave gives way to the New Age. It is a familiar story but this passage from ironic voyeurism to sweet Enlightenment is as perplexing as ever.