"Johnnie Winona Ross: Bean Creek Seeps," on view September 9 - October 9, 2022, presents the viewer with an opportunity to take a journey. An experience that walks a line between the best elements of a hike, a museum visit, and a meditation practice. Within these softly glowing paintings, one might find the space to breathe, listen, to see what is there.
What happens to the people inside the tent? To the space around? Suddenly the space is filled. There are dimensions to the air, there is a cadence to the breeze. Suddenly the sunlight has a shape, the cold has a color, the saxophone loops over heads, the piano rolls out across the grass. Everything has dimension, form, the quality of being shivering through itself. Everything is connected in a puzzle-box shaped place created by the music.
There is a magic in the way that a jazz song can hold open and electrify a space. There is a similar magic in how Johnnie Winona Ross opens up a space with his paintings. Created with a quiet care and attentio
