About the artist:
Clay Johnson was born in Durham, NC, where he later studied art and art history at Duke University, receiving a B.A. degree in 1985. He then worked for several years as assistant to painter Robert Natkin in Connecticut and New York City. He began exhibiting paintings in 1998, mostly in New York, San Francisco, and Washington DC. After several years of painting and exhibiting, followed by a hiatus of sorts, he has in recent years returned to painting with a new series of work. Essentially non-objective, the new paintings seem nonetheless influenced by the strong light and wide-open spaces of the Wyoming landscape.
Clay currently lives and works in Laramie, Wyoming.
