Get Me, Don’t Get Me
Tamara Johnson
August 23 – September 27, 2025
Opening – Saturday August 23, 5-8pm
We are looking forward to presenting Tamara Johnson first solo exhibition with the gallery titled Get Me, Don’t Get Me. Johnson is known for transforming everyday household objects into unexpected sculptural moments that blur the line between mundane routine and profound emotion. In her new series of sculptures, she elevates the detritus of domestic life into poignant meditations on labor, care, and desire. The works have a push/pull tension, inherent in Johnson's work, simultaneously inviting understanding through familiar objects, while maintaining an enigmatic quality that resists easy interpretation. These objects relay our most private moments—our anxieties while washing dishes, our small pleasures, our daily rituals of survival.
Johnson has exhibited her work regularly throughout the US and internationally, including Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas; Saint Louis Art Museum, MO; NYC Parks & Recreation Department, NY; The Second Act Gallery, UK; CUE Art Foundation, NY; Wave Hill Art Center, NY; Socrates Sculpture Park, NY; Plexus Projects, NY; International Objects, NY; Fort Worth Modern Museum, TX; the Blanton Museum of Art, TX; ; ; Lora Reynolds Gallery, TX; William Shearburn Gallery, MO; Jonathan Hopson Gallery, TX; Keijsers Koning, TX; Material Art Fair, Mexico City ’25 (Keijsers Koning Booth). In 2027, she will have a solo show at Women and Their Work in Austin, TX. Her awards and recognitions include the 2023 Henry L. and Natalie E. Freund Teaching Fellow, MO; 2022 Moss/Chumley Award, Meadows Museum of Art, TX; National Endowment (NEA) for the Arts Grant, D.C; the Brooklyn Arts Council Grant, NY; NARS Foundation, NY; The Santo Foundation, MO. In 2025, she was commissioned by the City of Austin’s Art in Public Places (AIPP) for the Elisabet Ney Museum, Austin, TX.
