Philip Johnson - ProfilesArchive

About Me

Hardworking painter/artist type...I enjoy driving down the coast highway, listening to Bossa Nova music, warm nights in the fire, and long walks off of short piers...

Selected Works
(Click on thumbnails for larger image)

Thought Bubble
Acrylic on Canvas, 30" x 40"
Luna
Acrylic on Canvas, 20" x 16"
Feed the Kitty
Acrylic on Canvas, 22" x 30"
Lemon Tree
Acrylic on Canvas, 24" x 18"
Sexy Wabbit
Acrylic on Canvas, 22" x 28"
Laughing Dog
Acrylic on Canvas, 28" x 22"
Morgan le Fay
Acrylic on Canvas, 14" x 11"
Blue Hat
Acrylic on Canvas, 24" x 20"
Red Swimsuit
Acrylic on Canvas, 28" x 22"
Zen Bettie III
Acrylic on Paper, 12" x 9"
Guinevere
Acrylic on Canvas, 20" x 16"
Amphitrite
Acrylic on Canvas, 14" x 11"
Oregon Hopscotch
Acrylic on Canvas, 22" x 28"
Seascape III
Acrylic on Paper, 9" x 12"
Vineland II
Acrylic on Paper, 9" x 12"
Desert II
Acrylic on Paper, 10" x 13"
Farmland
Acrylic on Paper, 9" x 12"
Rural Horizon
Acrylic on Paper, 13" x 16"
Rule 110
Acrylic on Canvas, 36" x 48"
Serengeti I
Acrylic on Canvas, 30" x 40"
Serengeti II
Acrylic on Canvas, 30" x 40"

My Interests

Smoking, Drinking, Painting, et cetera...

I'd like to meet:

Artists, Muses, and... "The mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes Awww!" (Jack kerouac)

Music:

Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits, Roger Waters, Neil Young, Cracker, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Stan Getz, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Laurie Anderson, Lou Reed, Steely Dan, Glenn Gould, Johann Sebastian Bach, Beethoven, et al...

Movies:

Federico Fellini, Jean-Luc Godard, John Huston, et al...

Television:

PBS, Turner Classic Movies, Comedy Central (Daily Show, Colbert Report, South Park)...

Books:

John Steinbeck, Jack Kerouac, Charles Bukowski, Hunter S. Thompson, et cetera...

Heroes:

Willem de Kooning, Pablo Picasso, Francis Bacon, Hunter S. Thompson, Jospeh Campbell, Neil Young, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Laurie Anderson, et al...

My Blog

Casper the Semiotic Ghost...

I have some new paintings to post, but I want to finish up a few more before I post them, so in the mean time, here's some random stuff to ponder: a short bedtime story followed by some instructional ...
Posted by Philip Johnson on Fri, 09 May 2008 05:33:00 PST

New Art (rounding out March)...

Some more recent works to round out the month of March... April’s works are progressing at a pace... Quoth the raven, "semaphore"...Easter, 24"x20", by Philip JohnsonOpen All Night, 28"x22", by ...
Posted by Philip Johnson on Mon, 07 Apr 2008 01:35:00 PST

New Work (Beware the Ides of March)...

Beware the Ides of March, Caesar! Yond March has a lean and hungry look; such months are dangerous. Let me have months about me that are fat such as September, October, and maybe November with its wad...
Posted by Philip Johnson on Fri, 14 Mar 2008 10:21:00 PST

3 New Paintings...

Three new paintings from this past week...Thought Bubble, 30"x40" (click to enlarge) Feed The Kitty, 22"x30" (click to enlarge)Luna, 20"x16" (click to enlarge)...
Posted by Philip Johnson on Sat, 01 Mar 2008 10:57:00 PST

New Art...

My various online pages have been falling into neglect, as I'm more interested in painting than in photographing, photoshopping, uploading, etc. However, I have posted some new art on the front page a...
Posted by Philip Johnson on Fri, 22 Feb 2008 09:12:00 PST

CENSORSHIP: Terms of Service Violation!!!

Those stupid, inbred, philistine, fucktards* at MySpace evidently have some kind of "issue" with my art... I updated my front page to add some landscapes, and I suddenly found some of my existing figu...
Posted by Philip Johnson on Fri, 23 Nov 2007 11:39:00 PST

Happy "Walking Bird" Day!

My story begins in Nineteen dickety two. We had to say "dickety" because the Kaiser had stolen our word for "twenty." I chased him down the road but gave up after dickety-six miles...You see, back in ...
Posted by Philip Johnson on Fri, 23 Nov 2007 10:05:00 PST

My Comments Are All Messed Up!

For some reason, all my MySpace comments have disappeared. I don't know if they are deleted, or simply not showing up. Additionally, I cannot see any new comments that are being left. It's like there ...
Posted by Philip Johnson on Wed, 14 Nov 2007 10:48:00 PST

On the Radio (w/ web-simulcast) this Friday...

I will be on a local radio station discussing my art for ten minutes this Friday, October 12th, between 3:00pm and 4:00pm PST (probably in the first half-hour).You can listen to it wherever you are, v...
Posted by Philip Johnson on Tue, 09 Oct 2007 09:58:00 PST

Upcoming Shows: Portland and Astoria, Oregon...

Here are two upcoming solo-exhibitions of my art, if you happen to be in Portland, Oregon or Astoria, Oregon, in the next few months...October 4th - 26th, 2007 (Reception: Sat, Oct 13th - 5-9pm)Philip...
Posted by Philip Johnson on Tue, 02 Oct 2007 06:31:00 PST