Johanna Barron, 5918 SE Reedway, Portland, OR. 97206 503-545-4080, jnbarron@ucdavis.edu EDUCATION MFA, University of California, Davis, 2010 B.A The Evergreen State College, 1995 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Associate Instructor. Instructor of Record for Introduction to Drawing and Painting, University of California, Davis, Department of Art, Summer & Fall 2009 & Summer 2010. Responsible for planning course, organizing demonstrations, running critiques, and grading. Course objectives included: developing the skills and understanding of proportion, form, space, line, and gesture; gaining confidence and familiarity with mark making and materials, building skills through traditional and experimental drawing and painting techniques, and developing the verbal and analytical skill necessary to critically examine studio work. Teaching Assistant. University of California, Davis, Department of Art. September 2008 to June 2010. Classes include figure drawing, printmaking, landscape painting and intermediate drawing. Duties: developing assignments, group and individual critique, selected reading discussions and technical demonstrations. Wood and Sculpture Shop Assistant. University of California, Davis, Department of Art. 2008-2010. Responsibilities included the oversight and safety of students while they completed their projects out of class. Provided students with technical, creative and problem solving support, appropriate tool use and checkout, machinery use, cleaning and maintaining the wood and sculpture workshop. Research Technician. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Department of Biology, April 2005 to November 2006. Duties: training and supervision of undergraduate students, preparation of aqueous samples for isotopic analysis, identification and weighing of organic materials, processing aquatic invertebrate samples, acid washing, ordering laboratory equipment and supplies, data entry. Supervisor: Barbara R. Niederlehner , Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Department Assistant. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Department of Biology. As needed from 2004-2006. Scheduled and coordinated new faculty hire visits and lectures, redesigned department lobby, signage and educational spaces, ordered and installed display spaces and created biological and educational displays. Research Technician.Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Department of Biology August 2002 to April 2005. Duties: hiring, training and supervision of undergraduate students in the field and laboratory, responsible for maintenance of safety equipment and procedure and student safety trainings, pollinator identification and observation, implementation and maintenance of field experiments, hand pollination, identification and weighing of plant materials, operation of lyopholizer and refractometer, microscopic pollen analysis, leaf solution extraction and chromatographic analysis, collection and analysis of nectar, establishment and rearing of insect colonies, data entry. Supervisor: Dr. Lynn Adler, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Research Technician. University of Georgia, Institute of Ecology, February-April 2003, 2004. Duties: establishment and maintenance of field and laboratory experiments, nectar manipulation and collection, hand pollination and flower emasculation, pollen identification and counting, microscope slide preparation, data entry. Supervisor: Dr. Rebecca Irwin, Dartmouth College Research Assistant. Oregon State University, Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, June 1997 to September 1998. Duties: Design and maintenance of field experiments, plant collection and identification, aquatic invertebrate sampling, electro-shock fish surveying, forest biomass inventory, allometric quantification of woody riparian plants, stream channel geomorphic surveying, photography. Supervisor: Dr. Boone Kauffman, Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry, USFS PUBLICATIONS Barron, J. 2000. Wild Earth 10:69 David N. Sharp, Amanda J. Lentz-Ronning, Johanna Barron and Lynn S.Adler, The Effect of Larval Diet and Sex on Nectar Nicotine Feeding Preferences in Manduca Sexta (Lepidoptera: Sphingdae), Florida Entomologist, 2009 SELECTED EXHIBITIONS 2015 Chasing Justice, The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA. 2015 Acres of Walls, Disjecta, Portland, OR. 2013 FILE, Electronic language International Festival, highlike. 2013 twoseven and annasatoko gallery, Group Show: «friends», NYC. 2013 Peekskill Project, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, NY. 2012 Still Life with Unfolding Rock, PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, OR. 2012 Hors Pistes 2012 // Centre Pompidou, Paris, France. 2011 Over My Dead Body, Root Division, San Francisco, CA. 2011 Darkness and Light, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA. 2011 Domesticity Un-hinged, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA. 2010 Dance You Monster to My Soft Song, The Richard L. Nelson Gallery, Davis, CA. 2010 The Ellen Hansen Exhibition, UC Davis, Davis, CA. 2010 Art in Place, Artist in Residence Exhibition, McLaughlin Natural Reserve, CA. 2009 The Pence Gallery, First year MFA Exhibition, Davis, CA. 2008 Quality Pictures Gallery, Group Show, Portland, OR. 2008 The Life Gallery, Solo Exhibition, Portland, OR. 2007 Lewis and Clark College, Group show, Portland, OR. 2006 Base Camp, Group show, Portland, OR. 2005 XYZ Gallery, Summer Retrospective, Blacksburg, VA. 2001 Willamette Valley Juried Exhibition, Corvallis, OR. 2000 Newport Visual Arts Center, Human Form, Newport, OR. COLLECTIONS The Nelson Fine Art Gallery, University of California Davis, Davis, CA. Lane Community College, permanent collection, Eugene, OR. HONORS & AWARDS 2015 Oregon Arts Commission, Opportunity Grant 2015 The Ford Family Foundation, Opportunity Grant 2015 Regional Arts and Culture Council, Project Grant, Portland, Or. 2011 The Graduate Fellow Award and Residency, Headlands Center for the Arts, CA. 2010 The Robert Arneson Award, UC Davis. 2010 Joan Mitchell Foundation Award Nominee, UC Davis 2010 Freemond Gadberry Award, UC Davis 2009 Graduate Research Fellowship, UC Davis 2009 David Robertson Graduate Fellowship and Residency 2009 Dedalus Foundation MFA Fellowship nominee, UC Davis 2009 The Departmental Mary Lou Osborne Award, UC Davis 2009 Freemond Gadberry Award, UC Davis 1994 Purchase Award, Lane Community College, Eugene, OR 1991 Sobel Memorial Scholarship, San Francisco Art Institute ARTIST STATEMENT Through site-specific installation, sculpture, painting, photography, video and short stories, I explore our relationship to objects and spaces such as hotel rooms, theme parks, government institutions, caves and the cosmos. Exploring cultural perceptions of taste and an interest in the artificial, my work considers the ways in which unfamiliar spaces and objects affect us and how environments may become psychological extensions of the self. I am particularly inspired by Schopenhauer's feeling of the Sublime, wherein he describes the ‘Full Feeling’ of the Sublime as the pleasure of seeing a violent object of magnitude and one that could destroy the observer, and the ‘Fullest Feeling’ of the Sublime as the immensity of Universe's extent or duration. BIO Johanna Barron works in a variety of media including installation, photography, writing, painting, and video. Her work incorporates concepts of biology and material culture. Among her interests are interceptions between artificial and natural environments, the boundaries of public and private spaces, and the cultural/biological function for the accumulation of objects. Barron, whose background is in Biology and Art, received her MFA from The University of California, Davis. She spent a year as a Graduate Fellow of The Headlands Center for the Arts. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. She is a fifth generation Oregonian, lives and works in Portland, Oregon.