In other rooms, in different worlds
Kyle Johnson is an artist and poetaster from the United States. As a visual artist, his focus is on apotropaism through natural forms rendered in a variety of media, particularly charcoal. Kyle’s digital illustrations are primarily fantastic vignettes set in nature and amongst ruins.
His written work explores history, mysticism, horror, camp, and queerness; with underlying critiques of whiteness, colonialism, masculinity, and American individualism.
Kyle currently resides in the Midwest with his partner Eduardo, their cats; Pasha and Mali, and too many houseplants. Kyle highly recommends Portishead’s Roseland, NYC Live album.
THROWBACK: 2022 EXHIBITION: Light
“My trust in others has diseased. As a salve, I find myself in daydreams evocative of fairytales, the media of my youth— stories of light and darkness. The faith and moral clarity that steel our heroes at the start of a new quest are often missing from my experience of adulthood. The rising fascism, indifference, and contempt the pandemic has exacerbated make me long for escape and adventure, so I have drawn these for myself. ”
Through the Mushroom Tomb, 2021, Digital Illustration.