Patrick H. Johnson

Patrick Henry Johnson, is an internationally acclaimed visual artist based in Los Angeles. His work spans from designing colossal murals as a public art form to fine art as the illustrator for May May Ali’s, I Shook up the World children’s illustrated book about her father, Muhammad Ali. His recent project commissioned by Council Member Curran Price of the Los Angeles City Council is supervising a crew of interns to paint a 72x14 foot mural that depicts the cost of war to the human soul.

Patrick’s upcoming exhibit entitled, the Nigger Chronicles: Subjugation of human thought examines the human condition being born into a preprogrammed society and the power of racial epithets. Using his technique of Conceptual Linguistic Expressionism, an art form that is the artistic expression of a word this technique emerged out of his desire to express the meaning of words with a mixed medium format of paintings, collage, and discarded items. The exhibit explores the meaning and power of words such as wetback, kyke, nigger, and cracker designed to trigger our reactive mind much like how a virus lays dormant in a computer program. This exhibit illustrates how art mirrors the new advances in neuroscience using the techniques of simultaneous two-hand writing, mirror writing, and ambidextrous painting as a way to deactivate our reactive brain, to develop full hemispheric integration, and better brain functioning.