PAT JOHNSON BIO
BORN
1951
Kansas City, Missouri
EDUCATION
1972
B.F.A., Ceramics, North Texas State University
EMPLOYMENT
present
Associate Curator of Library and Museum Collections, Round Top Festival Institute, Round Top, Texas
1998-2010
Director, Live Oak Art Center, Columbus, Texas
Pat Johnson is known for her sometimes disturbing yet humorous sculpture and tiles that take cues from a grab bag of influences ranging from antiquity to popular culture. Her current work has been a dialog of personal disasters with the protagonists as the artist. A full time artist for more than 40 years she lives and works in Fayetteville, Texas. She received her BFA from North Texas State University. Pat’s work was included in 2004 juried CraftHouston traveling exhibit organized by the Houston Center for Contemporary Crafts and in several of the 2013 NCECA conference exhibition in Houston. She has been accepted numerous times and placed 2nd in the Ceramic National Competition at the San Angelo Museum of Art. In 2014 she was selected to participate in The 35th Annual Contemporary Craft Exhibition at the Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum in Arizona, the 56th Annual Delta Exhibition at the Arkansas Art Center and the Texas Craft Biennial at the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft. She was on the short list for the 2014 Art Pace International Residency. Her work is included in the Lark Books publications, 500 Tiles and 500 Figures, Vol.II
“For many years, Johnson has worked in relative isolation in her Fayetteville studio. A historic, tiny town of 261 people, give or take a few, Fayetteville lies on one of the more scenic drives between Austin and Houston. After Johnson graduated from the University of North Texas with her bachelor of fine arts in 1972, she knew she wanted to be a studio artist, but admits she didn’t know quite how to go about it. Eventually, she met with a friend who was starting his architecture business in Fayetteville. He offered her studio space there, and after she took him up on the offer, she grew to love the quiet pace of life in a farming community.
In many ways, Johnson did the same as a number of contemporary, successful Texas artists who have stayed in Texas, rather than follow a well-worn path to New York, so that her visual vocabulary could build on its own.”
— Peggy Heinkel-Wolfe, 2004
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2021
Women and Their Work- Inaugural Exhibition, WATW, Austin, Texas, Curator: Vicki Meek
On the Bayou, Texas Sculpture Group, Redbud Gallery, Houston, Texas
Nervous Waters, Red & White Gallery, Fayetteville, Texas
2020
Nervous Waters - Solo Exhibition, Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, Texas
23rd San Angelo National Ceramic Competition, San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, San Angelo, Texas, Juror: Jo Lauria, Curator, Los Angeles, Ca., Award
Texas Clay by the Bay, K Space Contemporary, Corpus Christi, Texas
2019
Tiny Art of Texas, 218 Co-op Gallery, San Marcos, Texas. Juror: Catherine Lee, Award
State Wide: The Texas Sculpture Group at HBU, Houston, Texas. Curator: Jim Edwards
Red Dot Invitational, Women and Their Work, Austin, Texas
Pat Johnson, Art Center of Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi, Texas
Timeless Clay: Future Artifacts, ClayHouston 2019 Regional Biennial Exhibition, Juror: Jennifer Ling Datchuk, Award
2018
The Victoria Show: Decode 361, Five Points Museum of Contemporary Art, Victoria, Texas
Fayetteville Clay Invitational, Red & White Gallery, Fayetteville, Texas
40th Anniversary Red Dot Invitational, Women and Their Work, Austin, Texas
2017
Seven Ceramic Artists, Nave Museum, Victoria, Texas
Art + Craft, Red & White Gallery, Fayetteville, Texas
Narrative Offerings, SAMFA Gallery Verde, San Angelo, Texas
2016
2016 Ceramic Invitational Exhibition, Cedar Valley College Art Gallery, Dallas, Texas
Table for Three, Red and White Gallery, Fayetteville, Texas
Pat Johnson and Jim Bob Salazar, Gallery at South Texas College, McAllen, Texas, Visiting Artist
21st San Angelo National Ceramic Competition, San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, San Angelo, Texas. Juror: Christy Johnson, Independent Curator and Artist
Clay, Body, Mind and Soul: A ClayHouston Biennial Regional Exhibition, Jung Center, Houston, Texas. Juror: Garth Johnson, Curator of Ceramics, ASU Art Museum, Tempe, Arizona
2016 Invitational, Conroe Art League, Conroe, Texas. Juror: Francesca Fuchs, Award
Celebrate Texas Art, Assistance League of Houston, Williams Tower Gallery, Juror: Brady Roberts, Milwaukee Art Museum
2015
2015 Texas Artists Exhibition, Beeville Art Museum, Beeville, Texas
Irony and Ambiguity, Rudolph Blume Fine Art/ArtScan, Houston, Texas
The Collection of John and Darlene Williams, San Angelo Museum of Fine Art, San Angelo, Texas
2014
Short List, ArtPace International Residency, San Antonio, Texas
Craft Texas 2014 Biennial, Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Houston, Texas, Jurors: Carol Sauvion, Piero Fenci, & Clint Willour
56th Annual Delta Exhibition, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, Arkansas, Juror: Brian Rutenberg
Jesus Moroles, Mary Quiros and Pat Johnson, Red & White Gallery, Fayetteville, Texas
20th National Ceramics Competition, San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, San Angelo, Texas. Juror: Leopold Foulem, Catalogue
35th Annual Contemporary Crafts Exhibition, Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum, Mesa, Arizona. Juror: Julie Muniz, Oakland Museum of Art, Catalogue
2013
Pat Johnson: New Works, Red & White Gallery, Fayetteville, Texas
Artist Tries to Save the World, Art Car Museum, and Houston, Texas
Pat Johnson, Lebeth Lammers and Paulina van Bavel, Harris Gallery, Houston, Texas, NCECA
Attachments, Texas Clay Arts Association, Ceramic Store, Houston, Texas, NCECA
The Right Atmosphere: Clay in Central Texas, Heritage Plaza, Houston, Texas, NCECA
2012
Pat Johnson and Billy Ray Mangham, Gallery at South Texas College, McAllen, Texas, Visiting Artist
The Texas Six Pack Show, Texas Clay Arts Association, Coop Gallery, San Angelo, Texas, Award
Debonaire Oddities, FOUND, San Antonio, Texas, Guest Artist, Contemporary Art Month
2011
2011 Annual Juried Art Exhibition, Live Oak Art Center, Columbus, Texas, Juror: Clint Willour, Award
Pat Johnson, 35 Years of Art in Fayetteville, Arts for Rural Texas, Ross Gallery, Fayetteville, Texas
6 x 6 x 30 Tile Invitational, Sul Ross State University Gallery, Alpine, Texas, Coop Gallery, San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, San Angelo, Texas, Traveling Exhibition
2010
Pat Johnson and Louis Greco, Galveston College Fine Arts Gallery, Galveston, Texas, Visiting artist
2009
Functional, Goldesberry Gallery, Houston, Texas
2008
Strange Bedfellows, Goldesberry Gallery, Houston, Texas
2007
The Six Pack Show, Texas Clay Artists Association, E4 Gallery, Austin, Texas, Award
2005
Electrified: Invitational, St. Edwards University, Fine Arts Gallery, Austin, Texas
2004
CraftHouston 2004: Texas, Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Houston, Texas. Juror: Lawrence Rinder, Whitney Museum of American Art, Catalogue
15th San Angelo National Ceramic Competition, San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, San Angelo, Texas. Juror: Ruth and Rick Snyderman, The Works Gallery, Philadelphia, Pa., Award, Catalogue
2003
Texas Society of Sculptors, Rockport Art Center, Rockport, Texas, Award
2002
14th San Angelo National Ceramic Competition, San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, San Angelo. Juror: Jimmy Clark, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, Pa., Catalogue
2001
Two Pair: Significant Others, d berman gallery, Austin, Texas
1999
Pat Johnson: 20 Years of Art, Live Oak Art Center, Columbus, Texas
39th Annual Invitational, Longview Museum of Fine Art, Longview, Texas, Juror: Bill Wiman, Award
1998
Critic’s Choice, Dallas Visual Art Center, Dallas, Texas, Juror: Steve Vollmer, Curator, El Paso Museum of Art and Ann Ferrer, Director, Austin Museum of Art, Catalogue
1997
Solo Show, Longview Museum of Fine Arts, Longview, Texas, Grant
1995
Materials+Form 3, Art League of Houston, Houston, Texas, Award
Shared Space/Shared Experience, Galveston Art Center, Galveston, Texas
Artists of the Gulf States-Third Biennial, Gulf of Mexico Symposium, The Art Center of Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi, Texas, Juror: Luis Jimenez, Award
1994
Material+Form 2, Art League of Houston, Houston, Texas
The Art of Giving, St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
1992
Fedencio Duran/Pat Johnson, Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center, San Antonio, Texas
Texas Environmental Art, Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin, Texas
1989
Another Reality, Hooks-Epstein Galleries, Houston, Texas, The Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, Ark., Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute, San Antonio, Juror: Bert Long, Catalogue
1987
Introductions 87, Robinson Gallery, Houston, Texas
Competition ’87, Amarillo Art Center, Amarillo, Texas, Juror: Henry Hopkins
Celebration ’87, San Antonio Women’s Caucus for Art, San Antonio, Texas,
Houston Saluda en sus 50 anos de Fundacio, Museos de Banco Central de Ecuador, Guayaquil, Ecuador
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Catherine D. Anspon, PaperCityMag.com, Fayetteville’s Mistress of Clay Gets a Galveston Moment — The Mind-Bending Wonders of Pat Johnson, November, 2020
Catherine D. Anspon, Paper City, Three Texas Artists, September, 2016
Leopold Foulem, catalogue: 20th National Ceramic Competition, page 5, 2014
500 Figures in Clay Vol.2, Lark Publishing, 2014
Altamese Osborn, Houston Press, review: Satire on Display, July 2013
Molly Glentzer, Houston Chronicle, Fur, rubble and fierce fun, July 11, 2013
Catherine D. Anspon, Paper City, Soda Fountains to Art Cars, July 2013
Lindsey Love, Houston Chronicle, Cool Summer Happenings at the Art Car Museum, July 5, 2013
Bill Davenport, Glasstire, Clay Ain’t Dirt! NCECA Conference Hits Houston with Whirlwind of Earth Energy, March 20, 2013
500 Tiles, Lark Publishing, 2008
Bryan Russell, San Angelo Standard Times, Endeavor in Tile Earns Ceramist Recognition from Contest Judges, April 16, 2004
Rebecca Cohen, ARTLIES, review: Two Pair, d berman gallery, Fall 2000
Jeanne Claire van Ryzin, Austin American-Statesman, review: d berman shows playful side of “Significant Others”, September 30, 2000
J. R. Olsen, Austin American-Statesman, review: Recycled Artworks, November 23, 1992
Marcia Goren Weser, The San Antonio Light, review: Artist Airs Social Concerns in Television Exhibit, August 30, 1992
Thomas McEvilley, catalogue: Another Reality, Hooks-Epstein Galleries, Houston, Texas, “Yet Another Reality”, Text page 82, 1989
Patricia C. Johnson, Houston Chronicle, review: Another Reality, June 8, 1989
COLLECTIONS
San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, The John and Darlene Williams Collection
Live Oak Art Center, Columbus, Texas
Round Top Festival Institute, Round Top, Texas
Fayette County Courthouse, La Grange, Texas
Monument Hill State Historical Site, La Grange, Texas
Lyle Lovett and April Kimble, Klein, Texas
Joan and Jerry Herring, Ellinger, Texas
Robert Sandfield, Houston, Texas
Mary Forbes and Noah Edmundson, Houston, Texas
Gayle and Mike DeGeurin, Houston, Texas
Sharon Steen and Gary Dunnam, Victoria, Texas
VISITING ARTIST, JUROR AND WORKSHOPS
Corpus Christi Art Center, Visiting Artist and Juror, 2019
Galveston Arts Center, Instructor, 2016-2018
South Texas College, McAllen, Texas, Ceramic Showdown, Visiting Artist, 2016
Clay Continuum, San Marcos, Texas, Visiting Artist, 2014
Sul Ross University, Alpine, Texas, Visiting Artist, 2012
South Texas College, McAllen, Texas, Ceramic Showdown, Visiting Artist, 2012
Texas Clay Arts Association 2011 Annual Six Pack Show, Juror
Galveston College, Galveston, Texas, Visiting Artist, Clay Sculpture Workshop, Instructor, 2010
Eye of the Dog Art Center, San Marcos, Texas, Clay Sculpture Workshop, Instructor, 2009-2013
ClayHouston, Center for Contemporary Craft, Houston, Texas, 2008
The Texas Clay Festival, Gruene, Texas, 2000-2018
Texas Commission for the Arts, Artist-in-Residence, 1997-2002