Jeffrey D. Johnson
Oracle, Alchemist and Art
Agitator
Coming Events and former Triumphs
Neon Conspiracy;
Light Opera & Revival Meeting
Nightime, June 28, 29 and 30th
At the Old NC & O RR Depot 314 E. 4th
st
In Reno Nevada USA
Ken Hines, Will Durham, Kai Prescher and Jeff
Johnson
in Collusion to bring you a High Voltage Spectacle
featuring
Constructivism, Regionalism, Symbolism,
Aboriginal Art
& a Collection of old Classics from Nevada's
Glory Days to
Illuminate the station's Imposing Architectural
Edifice
Dada Motel; Celebrating Reno's Unlimited
potential for Absurdity
Who's Your Dada?
What happens in Reno..............
Is everybody's business
The Do tell Motel, Do tell all your friends
Thanks to Dusty Hartmann and Jeff Johnson for the art work
Dada Motel - A
Multi-Media Event
June 28th, 29th and 30th, 2007
Select
establishments–downtown Reno, in collaboration with our artistic
community, are celebrating Reno 's unlimited potential for absurdity. It's
being billed as "100 art shows in downtown Reno"–which is
probably simple propaganda. Artists of all kinds are renting motel rooms
individually or together with fellow artists. Find out what can do or what
you'll see; look on Tribe.net for Dada Motel or google us.
Lounges throughout town will be hosting opaque performances of music and
theatre with dada bent as well as visual exhibitions of flavor to savor.
Bicycles will be rented by the Reno Bike Project to the public to assist in
transporting the throngs from motel to hotel. Do-it-yourselfers are grouping
up to make this happen with already 20 downtown locations as of April 1st.
Hotels/motels, bars and soon-to-be announced venues are joining in all the
time.
This event represents Reno's visual arts/anti-arts,
dancers, fire-spinners, digital artistry, actor-poet-musicians, pugilism by
the UNR boxing team, High Schoolers art show, puppeteers, and conductors of
the light and heavy arts and more. Overseeing our eventees will be our own
Dada Mayor Mr. Eric (Non contiguous Sprawlus) Holland The Nevada
State Minister of Inert Gases, Mr. Jeff Johnson, Ken (Hinesburg) Hines, Kai
Prescher and Will Durham, collector of Reno's treasured illuminated
landmarks Are producing a neon extravaganza Called Neon Hell
including, Vladimir Tatlin's monument to the third international, 20 feet of
neon and metal, Battle of Tectonic plates forming the Great Basin by Jeff
Johnson and Phyllis Shafer, and more lighting up the old Nevada California
and Oregon Railroad building on Fourth st.
Do you Dada? Get
your room(s) booked before May 1st, email editor@sierra-arts.org and your
room's announcement (2 sentence max) will be included on the Dada Motel page
in the June issue of Sierra Arts Magazine. Participants that miss the May 1
deadline will need to email thesorg@sbcglobal.net by June 1st to be included
on the FINAL map being distributed liberally in the weeks leading up to this
end-of-June event; Reserve a room in a hotel/motel of your choice— – -as
long as it's in downtown Reno. Contact us online or call the dada-front-deskdesk
at 826-8023.
All artists will act independently and
will be required to sign a waiver that releases the project’s initiators
of any and all liability. Artists will be fully responsible for any sales.
and remember:
For more information/MISinformation, look on Tribe.net for Dada Motel or
email dadamotel@neonartnv.com or just google us.
DadaMotel is a self-styled Reno art event — June 28, 29, & 30 (Thur.
thur Sat.)
Dangerous; Third Rail
Art show featuring BuZ Blur, Erik Burke and Jeff Johnson, in San Francisco CA.
California debut of the documentary, Road to Colossus by Erik Burke,
3-LINE SYNOPSIS.
Before they became pen pals, they corresponded by boxcar. Follow two young
graffiti artists as they bicycle across the country to meet the legend of
railroad graffiiti, Colossus of Roads.
BuZ Blur, Internationally acclaimed Mail Artist, Boxcar tagger Emeritus
exhibits his work
And the Nevada State Minister of Inert gases provides illuminations
with Silver Peak beer from Nevada at Live Wurms Gallery,
1345 Grant st. (between Vallejo and Greene) in North Beach
October 13, 14 at 6:00
(Con)temporary gallery
Reno's art show of the year, 2006
40 collaborators
See more at
Chapterhouse Art gallery,
Reno Nevada
Anarchistas por Dios
1936 and 2004
"For us", said Durruti, "it is a matter of crushing Fascism
once and for all. Yes; and in spite of the Government".
"No government in the world fights Fascism to the death. When the
bourgeoisie sees power slipping from its grasp, it has recourse to Fascism to
maintain itself. The Liberal Government of Spain could have rendered the Fascist
elements powerless long ago. Instead it compromised and dallied. Even now at
this moment, there are men in this Government who want to go easy on the
rebels."
And here Durruti laughed. "You can never tell, you know, the present
Government might yet need these rebellious (fascist) forces to crush the
workers' movement . . ."
'PoP'
the Neon and Fireworks Art Show
by James McNulty, Jeffrey D.
Johnson
and the Record st. Cafe
As ''the Powers that be'' proceed to croon, strut, blither and bloop
a suspiciously accessible barrage of ditties into the airwaves in an
attempt to anaesthetize the decent townspeople into submission....Some of
the more or less decent townspeople rise up and fire back.
On July 2nd 2004 at the Record st. Cafe, near the South
East corner of UNR at east Ninth st. and the Railroad tracks we
will present "Pop" the Neon and Fireworks Art Show, A Celebration
of Freedom and the American Way of Life. This show features works that are
New, Pop, Electric and Incendiary with vacuums, explosions and high voltage
shenanigans. It is guaranteed not to be beige, bland or boring. It will
include quality, illuminating, all-American, wholesome, family entertainment
for all ages. I ask you, what could be more patriotic then bright
lights and blowing things up?
Neon, Pop and fireworks art will be displayed at the Cafe through Sept.
23rd. Graciously we will be assisted by our own ''Pop'' Coalition
Forces; We have enlisted Beth Alice Rubenstien, Nick Ramirez, Tova M. Ramos,
Edie Paul, and Pete Buchan already.
Mr. Johnson, the Silver State's Minister of Inert Gases, came to Reno
from Winnemucca Nevada to learn neon tubebending in 1994. He has conceived
neon art shows with the themes of Nevada, Furniture and in 2001
produced the genuine original idea, ''Fish Breath in the Year of the
Plague'', 20 neon cutthroat trout swimming upstream to spawn under
the Truckee River in Downtown Reno. Mr. Johnson is in demand for art,
signage and architectural accents in neon.
"James McNulty's framed pieces
juxtapose myriad labels from Independence Day playthings: sleek black cats
bear their fang-like teeth fiercely; delicate birds swoop about beneath
cascades of emblazoned embers; dragons spit fire, rockets soar and
parachutes rain down from a translucent rice paper sky." Dan
Zubin, LA Times
The Record st. Cafe is a "Taliban Intolerant" establishment.
"POP" is a free, public art
display.
Photography by Dave Robert,
A message from the Ministry of Homeland
Security.
This one exposes moral decay. In the
words of
Thing-Fish:
We'll get back to de wimp and his low-budget conceptium of personal freedom
in just a moment. But foist, . . . how many you folks is CONVINCED de gubnint be totally
'UNCONCERNED' wit de proliferatium o' UNDESIRABLE TENANTS in de CONDOMINIUM
o' LIFE? An' how many folks believe THEY number won't come up, next
time de breeze blow fum de Easterly directium? Les' face it, peoples! Ugly
as I mights be, I AM YO' FUTCHUM!
My child was student of the month at Died Rich School
Teenage Angst chipping out a niche
in the Permanent collection of Bleulion Art Gallery
Reno Nevada
Jeffrey Johnson, born in Oakland
Ca. circa 1960, hired out in 1978 as a brakeman on the Western Pacific Railroad.
Promoted to conductor in 1984, George Bush the First signed away his job by
Presidential Emergency Board and they paid Jeff to quit in 1993. Jeff
moved to Reno in 1994 from the utopian town of Winnemucca, Nevada to learn neon tube bending. He
survived 6 dollar an hour jobs working for sign cowboys by stealing everything
he could stuff in his head that wasn't glued down. He now builds custom neon
window signs, architectural accents and art.
Jeff took neon to new depths in 2001 when he lit 20 life size neon
Lahontan Cutthroat Trout for two blocks under the Truckee River in
downtown Reno. A genuine original idea called Fish Breath in the Year of the
Plague. He has shown works at the Museum of Neon
Art in Los Angeles Ca., Blue Lyon Art Gallery in Reno Nv., Sierra Arts Gallery
at the historic Riverside Hotel and the Nevada Museum of Art in Reno Nv.
Mr. Johnson was voted best local visual
artist by the readers of the Reno News and Review for 2002 and third best in
2003. http://www.newsreview.com/issues/reno/2002-10-10/rbestof16.asp
It was 1913,
First came the Rite of Spring,
Igor Stravinskys ballet, "arguably the
most shockingly controversial work the musical world had ever seen"
caused riots in the streets in Gay Paris.
Then, the same
year, there was the international exhibition of modern
art held at the 69th-regiment armory in New York City. The Armory show
introduced Picasso, Cezanne, Matisse and many more Cubists, Fauvists and
Dadaists to the prepubescent American art world, single handedly dragged it
kicking and screaming into the twentieth century and aroused the curiosity of
the American Public.. Marcel Duchamp proved there that art
"depended for its meaning not only on its given or created components but
on their specific use, ironic misuse or inherent uselessness."
Now for the 21st Century we are overdue for Two Stiffs Selling Gas,
Neon art by Ken Hines and Jeff Johnson.
I personally have been not a little
disappointed with the local art and shows lately.
They are so nine one oh. Caramba.
My old friend Thingfish was telling me,
"It's takin ya'll too damn long to grow up in Ermerica, What you needs
Jefe is a little Heart, a little Soul and some tittie too, If you can get
it."
We won't have Nude Descending the
Staircase but we will have Aspen trees with flickering leaves, Dragonflys
that fly,
The Reddi Kilowatt guy on Copper sheet, Neon
Furniture dedicated to Georgia Okeeffe, a coat rack, a graffitti/neon
collaboration entitled "These are our demands". We'll have
"Welcome to Nevada, now go home (and take your nuclear waste with
you!)", Nevada High Life, a cowskull from a perforated gas tank and
whatever else I think of between now and then.
I don't even know what brother Ken has up his
sleeve. I want to be surprized.
This will be a cross cultural event. I've
invited a huge eclectic slice of Northern Nevada's winners and losers. ( ie,
Rednecks, Freaks and the horses they rode in on)
We'll have Nick Ramirez and the
Astronauts (Unplugged since this building was built around the turn of the
century and I might have to plug a clandestine electrical connection into
Louie's Basque corner as it is.) We'll have poetry. Video footage. FREE
BEER
Why this will be the most fun anyone around
here has had since Cabaret Voltaire.
And the Blue Lyon Art Gallery is the only
place worthy to throw it since they are the best contemporary art gallery in
Nevada.
This Friday May 17th from 7:00 till after the
show at Bruka Theatre at least. (I plan to be at Louie's sipping on Picons by
5:30.)
What else can I say? Be there or be square.
Pass this along to the next brother.
Warning: this show contains
items with "No Commercial Potential"
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