Since 2012, Jenna Johnson has used acrylic paints and added objects in oversized paintings to wow audiences. While her work consisted mostly of commissioned paintings during the first five years of her career, today, she’s focusing all her efforts on creating more personal work. Her jaw-dropping, vibrant paintings can be viewed at the Hot Shops Art Center downtown as well as varying businesses in the surrounding area—and online! Through her website, you can purchase original acrylic artwork as well as prints in varying sizes to add to your home.
Ugly Yellow and Violet Vividity
It all started with a knee injury. In 2006, things for the now-24-year-old Jenna Johnson came to a screeching halt when the soccer enthusiast was subjected to multiple surgeries to repair her ACL. While she healed, the Sioux City, Iowa, native discovered her passion for painting.
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Believing vitality lies within strangers learning from one another, Jenna’s focus on making artwork that brings differing generations and cultures together to encourage that conversation.
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he purpose of ‘We Create’ is to encourage my viewers to reach out and connect with people around them.
Watered down acrylic paint is used to build up the layers of skin on each figure. This step is important is as it creates a basis for individuality; how we are viewed on the outside. I paint people I know so I have a deeper understanding of what I am painting. It is the connections I have made that influences the work that I do.
Hot Shops Art Center is a platform for emerging artists, such as myself, to grow in their crafts, and it acts as a direct portal to creative community seekers. Ideas are not only encouraged, but they are supported.
Omaha has room for any willing artist to make a mark which is an opportunity we are taking advantage of.
Jenna Johnson
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