FTCのデッキカンパニーとして1999年に発足したWESTERN EDITIONのアートディレクターであり、40’S〜60‘Sのジャズミュージシャンのポートレイトをはじめ、ジャズ音楽、文学、映画からの影響を受けたグラフィックやストラクチャーを独特の空気感で描くアーティストとしても知られるIan Johnsonが、INTEGRAL03 (Taipei, Taiwan)にて個展（4/29-5/29）を開催。初日にあたる４月２９日にはイアン本人も参加ということで、FREE ART x FREE MUSIC x FREE BEERというなんとも素敵なオープニングパーティーがおこなわれます。

INTEGRAL03 PRESENTS – IAN JOHNSON ART EXHIBITION IN TAIWAN
Opening Party on MONDAY APRIL 29, 2013
DOOR OPEN at 19:00~22:00 with FREE BEER AND FREE MUSIC (w DJ Vicar)
Address: No.27, Ln. 187, Sec. 1, Dunhua S. Rd., Da’an Dist., Taipei City 106, Taiwan (R.O.C.)
台北市大安區敦化南路一段187巷27號
Tel: +886-2781-8333

GUEST DJとして、”BACK TO DA TRU SKOOL VOL. 2 with DJ Mu-R (JP)”にも参加していただいたDJ Vicarも参加。平日ですが、日本のゴールデンウィークに乗じてはっちゃけるべく、マイクージー持参での参加を推奨したいと思います。

about IAN JOHNSON

Ian Johnson was born in Syracuse, New York and lives and works in San Francisco. He is the Creative Director of Western Edition Skateboarding.

Ian Johnson’s style and visual language has an instantly recognizable character and unique voice.
His work draws its structures and graphic impact from his scope of influences that includes Jazz music, literature, and film. Johnson adds elements of abstraction giving his compositions the expressive immediacy and elevated moods that are rooted in the culture and histories he references. His paintings and drawings incorporate elegantly drafted elements of figurative line work and abstract patterns that combine with color building on his established and ongoing visual narrative.

SELECTED SOLO / TWO PERSON SHOWS

2012 Straight Ahead, Park Life, San Francisco
2011 The Last Time It Was Gray (with Sadie Barnette), Park Life, San Francisco
2010 Of The Living Sky, Park Life, San Francisco
2009 Ian Johnson, White Walls, San Francisco
2008 Other Rooms, Other Songs, Park Life, San Francisco
2008 Ian Johnson and Albert Reyes, White Walls, San Francisco
2007 Moods In Free Time, Park Life, San Francisco
2004 Alone Together, Future Primitive, San Francisco

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2010 Diverse Chorus, Scoop, Charleston, SC
100 Records, Gallery 16, San Francisco
2007 Cascading Piles of Debris, Ok Ok, Seattle
My Favorite Color, White Walls, San Francisco
2006 Clement Cement, 3131, San Francisco
2005 Flanuer, Punch Gallery, San Francisco
2002 Test Group, Fifty 24 SF, San Francisco

PUBLICATIONS

“Beauty Is A Rare Thing”
Published by Paper Museum Press, 2008
www.paper-museum.net

BIBLIOGRAPHY

2010 Yenches, Dominick. “Of The Living Sky,” Ollie, #134, 6/10
Whiteley, Mark. “Ian Johnson,” Juxtapoz, #111, 4/10
2009 Le Goff, Guillaume. “A Little Bit Of Jazz,” Clark, #34, 6/10
Maneiri, Mario. “Ian Johnson,” Jazz Colours, #5, 5/10

ILLUSTRATION WORK

New York Times Magazine
San Francisco Chronicle
Sb Japan
Straight No Chaser
The New Yorker
Wax Poetics