ABOUT

Born in Detroit, MI. Jason Johnson is a  self taught Photographer and Painter. Jason has a keen focus on fashion and fine art. Inherently afrocentric, he articulates his passion through powerful, creative fashion/editorial images, and large colorful paintings with minimalist compositions. 

 

“Art has always been about therapy for me. Started around the age of 10 with me drawing cartoon and video game characters for my friends in the neighborhood. They always came by with a request that I happily obliged. I picked it back up in University where my focus was abstract art and portraits of women. I realized there was just a lack of positive, powerful images of African Americans. The stories told were always of slavery, lost culture, lack, or somebody overcoming a struggle. The color story was low vibrational, it used to keep me away from black art. I decided my goal for all things I create is to tell a different side or evolved version of that story, our story. But in real time.” My first and greatest inspiration is Salvador Dali, but mostly my approach to art has always been guided by musicians. As a muse and a business model."

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