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Born in 1942 in Boston, Massachusetts
1964, BA, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
1968, Graduate Courses in Design, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI
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"I call my paintings 'visual haiku' after the Japanese poetic tradition of observing nature ferociously until substance gives way to spirit. Like haiku, my paintings are meant to represent moments of heightened awareness and existential beauty.
My paintings also reflect an American transcendentalist tradition which believes that any ordinary object, shown with every detail specified, can offer a sudden glimpse of heaven.
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Dorothy Churchill-Johnson, March 2000
" My latest work is edging toward surrealism. I describe it as Georgia O'Keefe meets Salvatore Dali. I'm pushing beauty to extremes, isolating my subjects in invented abstracted landscapes, toward the realm of virtual reality. The paintings express a dichotomy between joy and desolation, and evoke a sense of being an isolated consciousness in a beautiful universe that is chillingly indifferent to mankind."
Dorothy Churchill-Johnson, March 2002
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Solo Exhibitions
1998: Faculty Club, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
1997: Frameworks DE La Guerra Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
1995:
Indigo Gallery, Lake Oswego, OR
Lakewood Center for the Arts, Lake Oswego, OR
1994: Karpeles Museum, Santa Barbara, CA
1993: The Heritage Society, Houston, TX
1992:
Aries Gallery, Houston, TX
Karpeles Museum, Santa Barbara, CA
1990: Artworks Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
1989: Jose Drudis Biada Gallery, Mount St. Mary's College, Los Angeles, CA
1988: 801 North Brand Gallery (Allstate Plaza), Glendale, CA
Group Exhibitions
2001:
Spring in Bloom, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
65th Mid Year Exhibition, Butler Institure of American Art, Youngstown, OH
1999:
Reynolds Gallery, Montecito, CA, The Art of Dining , (Invitational Exhibition, Westmont College)
Karpeles Manuscript Museum, Santa Barbara, CA
1996: Four Seasons Biltmore, Santa Barbara, CA, Two-Person Exhibition for Direct Relief International
1993:Sandy Carson Gallery, Denver, CO
1992:Gallerie Renee Denise, Chicago, IL
1986:
Lone Wolf Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Littlejohn-Smith Gallery, New York, NY
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Sales Rental Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1985:Anna Sklar Gallery, Bay Harbor Islands, FL
American Home Products, New York, NY
Abbott Labs, Ross Pharmaceutical, Columbus, OH
Bristol-Meyers Squibb, Lawrenceville, NJ
Kidder-Peabody Financial Services, Philadelphia, PA
Mactan Shangri-La, Cebu, Philippines
Price-Waterhouse, Los Angeles, CA
Sheraton Torrey Pines, La Jolla, CA
New World Pictures, Los Angeles, CA
Northwest Hospital, Chicago, IL
International Travel, Santa Barbara, CA
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Selection of paintings from Dorothy Churchill-Johnson
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1994, First Place, Lake Oswego Art Festival, Lake Oswego, OR
1993, First Prize, Santa Barbara Visual Art League Invitational, Santa Barbara, CA, Watermedia
1982, Honorable Mention, New Orleans National Biennial, New Orleans, LA
1979, Honorable Mention, First Annual Santa Barbara Art Festival, Santa Barbara, CA
1978, Honorable Mention, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, Women's Center
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Santa Barbara News Press.May 18, 1996
This week in Santa Barbara. May 17, 1996
Tinnitus Today
Cover Art, Vol. 21 No. 2, June 1996
Cover Art, Vol. 18, No. 3, September 1993
"Scene Magazine," Santa Barbara News Press, September 16, 1994
Santa Barbara Independent, September 15, 1994
Museum and Arts Magazine, Houston, TX, October 1992
"Watercolor '92," American Artist Magazine, Fall Edition, pgs. 48-51
"Scene Magazine," Santa Barbara News Press, October 26, 1990
"Drawing 1990," Brigham Young University Catalog
Glendale Daily News, October 10, 1998
Santa Barbara News Press, Sunday People Section, September 19, 1982
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