Johannah Silva :: Elastic Phenomena

October 15 – December 4, 2009

Image credit: Johannah Silva, Swarm 2008. Acrylic on canvas, 20" x 20". Image courtesy of the artist.

Press Release
The President’s Gallery at Harold Washington College is proud to present Johannah Silva :: Elastic Phenomena, October 15 – December 4, 2009. Ms. Silva will give a lecture on her work on October 29, 2009 at 10:30-11:30, location TBA and will hold a workshop at 12:30-3:00 in room 829. All events are free and open to the public.
Elastic Phenomena includes paintings and watercolors from Silva’s ongoing exploration of layering and connecting colorful circular forms. Her interest in the viewer’s changing interactions with the work will be present with a piece that is reconfigured from a previous installation. Silva’s images are rich spaces of color and form that fluctuate between micro and macro levels of perception. They begin with gestures and slowly build to create networks of layered spaces where the understanding of foreground and background is the product of surprising, vibrating color relationships. These color and space relations sustain opposite states by bouncing between form and formlessness and stillness and movement.
Johannah Silva earned her MFA in Painting from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and is currently a faculty member in the Department of Visual and Performing Arts at Wright College. Her work has been shown at various venues in Chicago including the University of Chicago, Hyde Park Art Center, South Shore Cultural Center, Looptopia and others, as well as nationally and internationally.

Artist's website
www.johannahsilva.com