How can I buy a work by Kelley Johnson?

Bruno David Gallery handles the sale of available works by Kelley Johnson. For prices and availability, email info@brunodavidgallery.com or call +1 314 696 2377.

Where can I see work by Kelley Johnson in person?

At Bruno David Gallery, 7513 Forsyth Boulevard, Saint Louis, Missouri 63105, during public hours or by appointment. His work is also in the collections of Pérez Art Museum Miami and Daum Museum of Contemporary Art.

Where is Kelley Johnson based?

Kelley Johnson lives and works in Los Angeles, California.

Has Kelley Johnson had an exhibition at Bruno David Gallery?

Yes. Rhythmic Patterns (2 November to 28 December 2019); Somewhere Between Here and There (4 May to 17 June 2017) are among his exhibitions at the gallery. Catalogues can be read in the gallery’s Publications library at brunodavidgallery.com/publications.

Kelley Johnson

Kelley Johnson (born 1973) is a Los Angeles-based painter who builds abstract compositions from grids, mapped lines, and repeated geometric shapes. Built up in layers of acrylic, Flashe, and oil, sometimes with glitter or burlap, the paintings use color and pattern to create optical vibration and a shifting sense of depth. The same visual language extends into sculpture, installation, and functional pieces such as tables.

Johnson starts from a loose system of lines and patterns and develops each work intuitively, with later layers responding to and disrupting earlier ones. His influences include Color Field painting and artists such as Josef Albers and Frank Stella. Three-dimensional works in PVC, vinyl, and acrylic paint carry these patterns into physical space, so that each piece changes as viewers move around it. His recent paintings, shown in Los Angeles and Miami in 2025, turn toward memory, light, and atmosphere.

Born in Houston, Texas, Johnson grew up in St. Louis and was previously based in Miami.

Johnson was a painting fellow at the Yale Summer School of Art in 1998, received a BFA from Parsons School of Design in 1999, and earned an MFA from Indiana University in 2001. His solo exhibitions include Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami (2020, 2023, and 2025); Luis De Jesus Los Angeles (2025); Freight + Volume, New York (2018); and the Art and Culture Center/Hollywood, Florida (2016). Public commissions include work for the Virgin Voyages cruise terminal in Miami (2022) and a FedEx building at Miami International Airport (2021). His work is in the collections of the Pérez Art Museum Miami and the Daum Museum of Contemporary Art in Sedalia, Missouri.

Johnson was included in Bruno David Gallery’s inaugural St. Louis exhibition in 2005 and has since had seven solo exhibitions with the gallery, each with a catalogue, from Dreaming (2007) to Somewhere Between Here and There (2017) and Rhythmic Patterns (2019). In early 2020 the gallery presented an installation of his sculptures in its Window on Forsyth vitrine, and his work has appeared in many of its group exhibitions, most recently Overview_2024.

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