Johanne8 (1974) - THE NURSE

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Painting on XXL rolled canvas and not mounted on a frame (to be mounted directly by a framing professional), by the Artist JOHANNE 8 permanently exhibited for 20 years in galleries in France and Europe and Asia. Solo shows and collective exhibitions with Ben Frost, Robert Combas, Speedy Graphito, Hervé di Rosa, Miss.Tic…
Various fairs represented by galleries at Urban art Fair Paris, Art-Up (Lille Art Fair), Art Taipei… press releases: L’Express, Air France Magazine, Artittude Tome 2 and the latest release currently in the world The Bible Calligraphy (101 artists), AD Spain, Marie Claire Maison etc…

BIOGRAPHY
A name that resonates like a lucky charm when one knows the symbolic meaning of the number attached to this young artist’s first name. After a career in aerospace, she decides to return to her lifelong passion.
Born in Lyon in 1974, Johanne 8 lives and creates today in Paris. A confirmed contemporary art artist, she has been exhibiting her paintings and sculptures since 2008 in recognized galleries. Her works are shown from Melbourne to Barcelona, via Lausanne or Geneva, as well as in France: Paris, Deauville, Megève, Courchevel, Arcachon, or Saint-Tropez…
She has also managed to invest prestigious venues such as the Grand Palais de Lille for Lille Art-Up or L’Urban Art-Fair in Paris.
Johanne 8 imagines in her studio luminous and colorful paintings that all tell a story. Her story!!!…
Thus the artist today defines herself as an heir to Bad Painting, a movement of American graffiti artists. She joins the young artistic movement of “Street Pop” which she shares with other artists like Benjamin Spark, a young and talented Belgian artist.
Observed and chosen by the fashion greats Paul&Joe, Karl Lagerfeld (Chanel) and Olivier Rousteing (Balmain); and by French gastronomy, the three-Michelin-star chef Anne-Sophie Pic, Johanne 8 continues her path and continually renews herself.
When Johanne 8 returns to settle in Paris, it is to devote herself fully to her first loves: she writes screenplays for cinema and television. At the same time, she picks up the brushes again and exhibits canvases where the diversity of techniques used goes hand in hand with the plurality and the flourishing of visual codes.
Deliberately Johanne 8 makes images collide, mingled with words, in order to transcribe her inner turmoil and the variety of her artistic and cultural references. She allows the viewer to reflect on their own cultural mosaic, on what today constitutes our mixed identities.
She has notably just developed a new technique, to give extra relief to her creations, inspired by the candy brands she loves to stamp on the canvases (Milky Way, Bounty, Galak, Mars…).
This is not without reminding us that the artist grew up in the 80s and is fully immersed in that culture.
In her canvases you will surely find references to those who have always inspired her, Basquiat, Warhol, Lichtenstein, Erro or Julio Le Parc.
Her universe is also Pulp, the comics of the 50s, as well as international current events and major social themes.
As for the 8 beside her first name, it is the day-of-birth number of her son Mattia."