Artist Patricia Johanson is one of the creative angels of these dark times, and Caffyn Kelley's vivid
test carries the message. Johanson designed expanded site-works for congested waterfronts, endan-
gered forests and urban wastelands. Each of her visionary ground plans is a saving grace for our
earth-damaging culture. Here indeed is art for survival. Read this wonderful book!
- Eleanor Munro, author of Originals: American Women Artists
This is an invaluable book. Art and Survival details the evolution of Patricia Johanson's work from her minimalist paintings through her innovative, bio-intensive structures of the last two decades. Kelley's clear, compelling text covers practical concerns and aesthetic considerations, while demonstrating that Johanson never stops challenging art's nature, capacity, audience and role.
- Sue Spaid, author of Ecovention: Current Art to Transform Ecologies
Looking and reading through this long-awaited book, I'm astounded all over again, as I have been over the years when called upon to focus on Patricia Johanson's art and ideas. Her achievements on the ground and in the imagination are breathtaking... As Caffyn Kelley writes in the course of this excellent narrative, she "reconciles delicacy with strength, generosity with power, and creativity with consequence." There is no better and more crucially needed model for the future of our gardens, parks, and planet than Patricia Johanson's art.
- Lucy Lippard, Introduction to Art and Survival |
