Johanne8 (1974) - DEAD (RED LOBSTER)

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Painting on canvas by the artist JOHANNE 8 permanently exhibited for 20 years in galleries in France and Europe and Asia. Solo show and collective exhibitions with Ben Frost, Robert combas, speedy graphito, Hervé si 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 house etc…

BIOGRAPHY
A name that resonates like a good luck charm when you know the symbolic meaning of the number attached to the first name of this young artist. 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 artist of contemporary art, she has been exhibiting her paintings and sculptures since 2008 in recognized galleries. Her works are exhibited 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 occupy prestigious venues such as the Grand Palais de Lille for Lille Art-Up or L’Urban Art-Fair in Paris.
Johanne 8 imagines luminous and colorful canvases in her studio that tell a story. Her story!!!…
This is how the artist defines herself today as an heiress of 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 fashion heavyweights Paul&Joe, Karl Lagerfeld (Chanel) and Olivier Rousteing (Balmain); and by French gastronomy, the three-Michelin-starred chef Anne Sophie Pic, Johanne 8 continues her path and keeps renewing herself.
When Johanne 8 returns to settle in Paris, it is to devote herself fully to her first loves: she writes screenplays intended for cinema and television. Concurrently, she takes up the brushes again and exhibits canvases where the diversity of techniques used goes hand in hand with the plurality and flowering of visual codes.
Deliberately Johanne 8 makes images clash, interwoven with words, in order to transcribe her inner turmoil and the variety of her artistic and cultural references. She allows the viewer to question their own cultural mosaic, what constitutes today our mixed identities.
She has just developed a new technique, to give added relief in her creations, drawing inspiration from candy brands she likes to stamp on the canvases (Milky Way, Bounty, Galak, Mars…).
This is not without recalling that the artist grew up in the 80s and is fully imbued with that culture.
In her canvases you will likely 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 affairs and the major themes of society.
As for the 8 beside her name, it is the day-of-birth number of her son Mattia."