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In "Cross/Currents," Erick Johnson invites the viewer to ponder the paradox of infusing movement into what appears to be a static visual field. This series tests the tension between possible binaries: shape vs field, design vs paint, exactitude vs entropy and above all, the static vs movement. As Stephen Maine puts it,” Johnson has a fundamental motivating hypothesis: How do you get something to ‘move’ that’s not really moving at all?”

At the heart of Johnson's approach to painting is his use of an imperfect grid consisting of irregular polygons. They are sometimes divided into …