{"id":14782,"date":"2024-01-26T17:44:41","date_gmt":"2024-01-26T22:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/?p=14782"},"modified":"2024-01-26T17:44:41","modified_gmt":"2024-01-26T22:44:41","slug":"no-roses-in-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/content\/collage-exhibitions\/no-roses-in-december\/","title":{"rendered":"No Roses in December"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"700\" height=\"705\" src=\"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/david-edward-johnson-ghosts.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14783\" srcset=\"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/david-edward-johnson-ghosts.jpg 700w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/david-edward-johnson-ghosts-600x604.jpg 600w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/david-edward-johnson-ghosts-300x302.jpg 300w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/david-edward-johnson-ghosts-260x262.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Ghosts<\/em> by David Edward Johnson<br>30&#8243;x30&#8243;; custom photography, found objects, acrylic, graphite, spray paint, crayon, paper, cardboard, and household on panel. Courtesy of the artist.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>COLLAGE ON VIEW<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">David Edward Johnson: No Roses in December<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, New York, USA<br>27 January-31 March 2024<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Based in Skaneateles, New York, David Edward Johnson creates mixed media assemblages that address belief systems, the birth and death of the American Dream, and the effects of loss at a personal level. &#8220;No Roses in December&#8221; features a series of works in which Johnson explores his father\u2019s diagnosis of and descent into dementia. Johnson pairs his own photographs of bleak West Texas vistas and abandoned adobe dwellings with abstract mixed media painting, vintage papers, found objects, and other ephemera as a way to evoke fragmented shards of memory that mimic his father\u2019s state of mind. The series title references a poem by Geoffrey Anketell Studdert-Kennedy that was popularized in a speech about courage by <em>Peter Pan<\/em> author JM Barrie: \u201cGod gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.\u201d Without memories, we have no blooms in the chill of the December of life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"700\" height=\"709\" src=\"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/david-edward-johnson-transformation.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14784\" srcset=\"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/david-edward-johnson-transformation.jpg 700w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/david-edward-johnson-transformation-600x608.jpg 600w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/david-edward-johnson-transformation-300x304.jpg 300w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/david-edward-johnson-transformation-260x263.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Transformation<\/em> by David Edward Johnson<br>30&#8243;x30&#8243;; custom photography, found objects, acrylic, graphite, spray paint, crayon, paper, cardboard, and household on panel. Courtesy of the artist.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;David Edward Johnson: No Roses in December&#8221; is part of the Everson CNY Artist Initiative, an exhibition program that celebrates the multi-faceted talents of regional artists. The CNY Artist Initiative is made possible with support from Terry and Bill Delavan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>(text adapted from material provided by the museum)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>INFORMATION<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Everson Museum of Art<\/strong><br>401 Harrison Street<br>Syracuse, New York 13202 USA<br>(315) 474-6064<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hours through 31 March 2024:<br>Wednesday, 11AM-4PM<br>Thursday, 11AM-8PM<br>Friday, 11AM-4PM<br>Saturday, 10AM-5PM<br>Sunday, 11AM-4PM<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/SsYyisJ6K8S58oEN6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">MAP<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/everson.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">WEBSITE<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/EversonMuseumOfArt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">FACEBOOK<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COLLAGE ON VIEW David Edward Johnson: No Roses in December at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, New York, USA27 January-31 March 2024 Based in Skaneateles, New York, David Edward Johnson creates mixed media assemblages that address belief systems,&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/content\/collage-exhibitions\/no-roses-in-december\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":14783,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/david-edward-johnson-ghosts.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2QTD7-3Qq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15927,"url":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/institute\/frankenstein\/","url_meta":{"origin":14782,"position":0},"title":"Frankenstein","author":"Christopher Byrne","date":"7 December 2024","format":"gallery","excerpt":"NEW PUBLICATION Frankenstein\u00a0by Mary Shelley, illustrated & interpreted by contemporary collage artists This new version of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's classic 19th century novel Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus features seventy-six illustrations by International Collage Artists who delved into the novel's rich narrative and visual potential and created thought-provoking artworks that\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Institute&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Institute","link":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/category\/institute\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/Frankenstein-Cover.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/Frankenstein-Cover.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/Frankenstein-Cover.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/Frankenstein-Cover.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1259,"url":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/content\/collage-exhibitions\/the-shaping-of-new-visions-photography-film-and-photobook-at-moma\/","url_meta":{"origin":14782,"position":1},"title":"The Shaping of New Visions at MoMA","author":"Christopher Byrne","date":"14 January 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"18 April 2012 - 29 April 2013 Filling the third-floor Edward Steichen Photography Galleries, this installation presents more than 250 works by approximately 90 artists, with a focus on new acquisitions and groundbreaking projects by Man Ray, L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Moholy-Nagy, Aleksandr Rodchenko, Germaine Krull, Dziga Vertov, Gerhard R\u00fchm, Helen Levitt, Robert\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Exhibitions&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Exhibitions","link":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/category\/content\/collage-exhibitions\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/moma_shapingvisions2012_heinecken-web.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/moma_shapingvisions2012_heinecken-web.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/moma_shapingvisions2012_heinecken-web.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":12814,"url":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/content\/collage-exhibitions\/please-send-to-real-life\/","url_meta":{"origin":14782,"position":2},"title":"Please Send to Real Life","author":"Christopher Byrne","date":"4 July 2022","format":"gallery","excerpt":"Shadow and manhole by Ray Johnsoncommercially processed chromogenic print; Spring 1992. 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