In Search of the Frightening and Beautiful: The Journey Continues

Following her residency project last year, Heather Johnson decided to change up her life and continue her project, In Search of the Frightening and Beautiful, through Mexico, South America and possibly the world. No small feat or ambition. Heather conducted the Mexico portion of her journey in the Spring of this year and then came to the Joshua Tree area to regroup for a while before taking on South America.






Heather was given the opportunity to exhibit her work at the University Gallery at CalPoly San Luis Obispo in November of this year. We got talking and I thought it would be a great opportunity to exhibit the work first here in Joshua Tree in October. As will all open houses for the residency, Heather had only been able to show work in progress with the final pieces being exhibited at BoxoOFFICE in New York last Fall. Now it would be possible to share the work with the local community, including new works made in Mexico and locally.


 We hosted an opening on Saturday October 18 which was well attended on a beautiful Fall day in the desert. The exhibition remained on view during the first weekend of Art Tours and then Heather took the work to San Luis Obispo for the show there. Congratulations to Heather again on a wonderful body of work.