Gary Johns

Gary Johns (born 1946 in Natrona Heights, Pennsylvania) is a well-known artist and former international award-winning commercial film director. His latest project “Homage” was in close exchange with the late Harald Falckenberg, a renowned art collector from Hamburg. In “Homage”, Johns reinterprets the photographs of his fellow artist and project partner Greg Gorman to express a different approach to the project's aim of paying homage to Africa's influence on modern art.

Johns characterizes himself as an observer and recorder of the world in which he lives. His artwork reflects his interest in the decay that surrounds all of us. Johns finds beauty in graphically photographing things that most people tend to overlook. These images, together with elements from his own paintings, drawings, scribblings, and detritus found on the street are juxtaposed in mixed media collages.

Gary Johns’ work has been exhibited at various galleries in Los Angeles and the Chautauqua Institution in New York. Most recently his work has been exhibited at the Holmann Gallery in Palm Desert, California and St. Petri in Lübeck, Germany. Johns resides in the Echo Park section of Los Angeles for six months of the year. In 2024 he was selected for the exhibition 'Persona', curated by the renowned art collector Harald Falckenberg.