Julienne Johnson

Julienne Johnson is an American artist, poet, and singer-songwriter.

Music career

Johnson was the front woman for the country rock band Sandusky, and was nomi-nated for both a Grammy and Dove award as a songwriter. Her band, Sandusky was named after her birthplace in Michigan of the same name. Johnson was also a songwriter for the track Evermore on the Take 6 album So Cool. Her poetry has also been pub-lished.

Artistic career

She attended Taylor University in Indiana prior to her musical career, continuing with her study of art at Wayne State and Oakland Universities in Michigan. After relocating to California, began to study fine art in 2005 at the Art Center College of Design until 2009. She had painted on a part time basis for twenty years, focusing on still life, landscape and seascape paintings. Johnson be-came a full-time artist in 2010 creating interdisciplinary artworks that include paintings, assemblage sculpture, installation, video and performance art.

A retrospective exhibition of her work entitled Passion and Structure: Julienne Johnson 2008 – 2014 was held in 2014 at the Metcalf Gallery of Taylor University. Other exhibitions of her work have taken place in California, Illinois, Michigan, Qatar, Armenia, Italy, China, Japan, and Thailand. Her works have appeared in three books: Ashes for Beauty in 2012, Touched in 2013, and Passion and Structure: 2008-2014.

Johnson’s work is included in the permanent collection of the Arab American National Museum, the Ratachadamnoen Museum and the Thaksin University Museum in Thailand. She was honored with a solo museum exhibition at the Southern Nevada Museum of Fine Art in Las Vegas, and has exhibited at the Fukuo Museum in Japan, Richard M. Nixon Presidential Library & Museum in California, Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art in Japan, Blue Roof Art Museum in China, Prince of Songkla University Museum in Thailand, and the Pacific Asian Museum in California.