Devin B. Johnson Paints the Space Between Memory and Motion

Devin B. Johnson Paints the Space Between Memory and Motion

Devin B. Johnson's paintings emerge on the canvas like ghostly, dreamlike apparitions—visual remnants that withstand the slow erosion of memory.

His works

evoke that phenomenon of recollection—how remembering actually works
, the artist tells Observer. When you remember something, especially something emotionally loaded, it’s always fragmented.

His scenes exist in suspended tension between figuration and abstraction, between the sensory intensity of trauma and the blurred contours of a dream upon waking.

In his hands, paint becomes a means of reattuning and reconstructing that space; the white canvas, a stage on which to confront it.

Author's summary: Devin B. Johnson explores memory and motion in art.

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Observer Observer — 2025-10-30

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