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GHOST FLOWER: THE PAINTINGS OF ELISA JOHNS | Gates of the West

GHOST FLOWER: THE PAINTINGS OF ELISA JOHNS | Gates of the West

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Feb 24, 2018
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Elisa Johns’ current body of work presents us with paintings of ‘pretty flowers’—not effusive bunches ornately arranged, but lonely little boughs almost accidentally discovered, that proclaim their idiosyncrasy. She photographs them while on regular hikes amid the peaks and vales of the Sierra Nevada’s, a 70-mile wide by 400-mile long range of mountains…

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