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Elizabeth Johnson

An artist, art writer and guest curator, Elizabeth Johnson began writing reviews for artpractical.com in San Francisco, California, and later covered exhibitions in New York City, Philadelphia, and the Lehigh Valley for theartblog.org. She has written for artcritical.com, Artvoices Magazine, Figure/Ground, PaintersonPaintings.com and DeliciousLine.org. She interviews gallery artists for Gross McCleaf Gallery in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She curated The Big Painting Show at Workspace Limited in San Francisco’s Mission District and has since curated shows that feature Lehigh Valley and urban artists at Lafayette and Cedar Crest Colleges. In 2021, she co-curated Pathological Landscape for Marquee Projects in Bellport, New York and curated I’m So Glad I’m Just Like You at Brick + Mortar Gallery in Easton, Pennsylvania. Residential Tourist, co-curated with Emily Steinberg and Celia Reisman for Gross McCleaf Gallery, will open in Spring 2022.

I Cried Because You Told Me
by Abdulqader S. Al-Ghamdi, translated from the Arabic by Essam M. Al-Jassim

May 2, 2022 Contributed By: Abdulqader S. Al-Ghamdi, Elizabeth Johnson, Essam M. Al-Jassim

Cried Because Told Me

I recall the prickly pear shrub that never failed to pierce me as I tucked my skinny body behind it, trying to hide…

Filed Under: Featured Content, Featured Translation, Fiction, Translation Posted On: May 2, 2022

The Trembling Nasties
by William Luvaas

April 18, 2022 Contributed By: Elizabeth Johnson, William Luvaas

Saturday Level and Full, 2021, oil on canvas, 48x60 by Elizabeth Johnson

I am told I was a happy, mischievous kid who smeared peanut butter on walls. Insatiably curious, I would sit down next to strangers on buses and start up conversations. I have heard that I liked to make people laugh. I don’t remember any of this.

Filed Under: Featured Content, Featured Nonfiction, Nonfiction Posted On: April 18, 2022

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