Keijsers Koning presents Tamara Johnson: "Get Me, Don't Get Me" opening reception

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Tamara Johnson Plate with bread and strawberry (blue), 2025 and Plate with bread and strawberry (yellow), 2025, Aluminum and enamel paint, 6 x 6 x 2 In each

Keijsers Koning will present Tamara Johnson’s first solo exhibition with the gallery, "Get Me, Don’t Get Me." Johnson is known for transforming everyday household objects into unexpected sculptural moments that blur the line between mundane routine and profound emotion.

In her new series of sculptures, she elevates the detritus of domestic life into poignant meditations on labor, care, and desire. The works have a push/pull tension, inherent in Johnson's work, simultaneously inviting understanding through familiarity, while maintaining an enigmatic quality that resists easy interpretation. These objects relay our most private moments - our anxieties around maintenance, our small pleasures, our daily rituals of survival. Her sculptures suggest what Johnson calls "a tactile archaeology of contemporary life" - physical evidence of the emotional landscapes we navigate through the simplest acts of daily existence.

In this exhibition, Johnson presents new works that draw from the language of the everyday. Through painted metal, she playfully challenges notions of value and permanence, transforming familiar objects with careful attention to material and craft. A pewter can of fruit cocktail with a tattered label, children’s play foods cast in aluminum, and a snack cake perched atop a bronze monobloc chair become monuments to invisible and unfulfilled desires. Johnson’s sculptures revel in the coexistence of humor and poignancy, blurring the boundaries between care, consumption, and the absurdities of domestic ritual.

The exhibition will remain on display through September 27.

Keijsers Koning will present Tamara Johnson’s first solo exhibition with the gallery, "Get Me, Don’t Get Me." Johnson is known for transforming everyday household objects into unexpected sculptural moments that blur the line between mundane routine and profound emotion.

In her new series of sculptures, she elevates the detritus of domestic life into poignant meditations on labor, care, and desire. The works have a push/pull tension, inherent in Johnson's work, simultaneously inviting understanding through familiarity, while maintaining an enigmatic quality that resists easy interpretation. These objects relay our most private moments - our anxieties around maintenance, our small pleasures, our daily rituals of survival. Her sculptures suggest what Johnson calls "a tactile archaeology of contemporary life" - physical evidence of the emotional landscapes we navigate through the simplest acts of daily existence.

In this exhibition, Johnson presents new works that draw from the language of the everyday. Through painted metal, she playfully challenges notions of value and permanence, transforming familiar objects with careful attention to material and craft. A pewter can of fruit cocktail with a tattered label, children’s play foods cast in aluminum, and a snack cake perched atop a bronze monobloc chair become monuments to invisible and unfulfilled desires. Johnson’s sculptures revel in the coexistence of humor and poignancy, blurring the boundaries between care, consumption, and the absurdities of domestic ritual.

The exhibition will remain on display through September 27.

WHEN

WHERE

Keijsers Koning
150 Manufacturing St suite 201, Dallas, TX 75207, USA
https://www.keijserskoning.com/exhibitions/43/works/

TICKET INFO

Admission is free.

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