About the artist

Carmen Cartiness Johnson is an award winning and Library of Congress inducted artist whose work has been shown in dozens of respected museums throughout the United States. Her desire to create initially developed from wanting to reimagine the memories of her summer visits to her grandmother’s Arkansas farm.   From flat colored graphic shapes to a more intimate dimensional painterly style, Carmen’s skills have continued to progress and evolve with her work while maintaining her signature theme of faceless images allowing viewers to cross racial lines placing themselves into the situation on canvas. 

In addition to figurative acrylic paintings on canvas multimedia work on paper and using various papers, newsprint type, paint and photographs.   This includes a series of paperworks created during a residency at Brodsky Center at Rutgers University, the resultant work was acquired by the Library of Congress in 2006.

With over 40 years of experience and hundreds of original pieces in her portfolio, this site was created to showcase Ms. Johnson’s ability and dedication to her craft.
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