Art Exhibit Opening at Dominican

The paintings of Mary Reed Johnson will be on display beginning September 9 in the San Marco Gallery at Alemany Library at Dominican University of California.

The Berkeley artist will hold an opening reception for the exhibit  that day from 6 to 8 p.m. at Alemany Library and present an artist talk in the San Marco Gallery on October 6 from 2:00 to 3:30 p.m..

The exhibit, hosted by Dominican and its department of art, art history and design, will be on display through October 16 during library hours: Monday through Thursday 8 a.m.- to 10:30 p.m., Friday and Saturday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday from 2 to 10:30 p.m.

Johnson was born in Virginia and received her masters in fine arts degree from UC Berkeley in 1990. Her paintings are exhibited locally and statewide. As a graduate student of Joan Brown, Johnson's work stems from a long standing Bay Area figurative art tradition.

 For most of her paintings, Johnson paints directly on canvas and aims to bring it to completion in a single three-hour session with a model, which means she must make rapid and deliberate decisions. Driven by her curiosity of what people try to keep hidden and yet inadvertently reveal, this practice requires astute and sustained observation.

For more information about Mary Reed Johnson's exhibit at Dominican, contact Foad Satterfield  at 415-485-3269.