Paddy Johnson is a New York-based art educator and entrepreneur. She is the Founder and CEO of VVrkshop LLC, a company that includes running the artist membership Netvvrk, founded in 2021.[1][2] Her background includes art criticism, blogging, curation and writing for various publications.[3] Johnson was the founder and editor of the art blog Art F City (formerly called Art Fag City) which was last updated in 2021.[4] Art F City published a calendar in 2015 titled "Nude Artists as Pandas," featuring naked artists dressed up in panda costumes.[5][6][7][8]
Early life
editJohnson was born in Guelph, Ontario. She was educated at Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick, and continued her education at Rutgers University. She has slowly gained notoriety as an art critic in the New York art scene. She is also known for her live coverage of major art fairs such as the Armory Show, Venice Biennale, Frieze Art Fair, and Art Basel in Miami and Switzerland.[9]
Career
editCoaching Artists
editJohnson created Netvvrk to support mid-career artists. Netvvrk includes a membership portal that allows artists to communicate with a community of peers, access a curriculum addressing the needs of creative small business owners, receive online artist mentoring, participate in workshops, connect with prominent arts professionals, and engage in critical art review.[10] Johnson found that creating and running a platform for artists to connect directly was more effective in helping greater numbers of artists build their careers than by doing piece-meal teaching.[11] Netvvrk has helped artists get more than 1M in grants in the first two years of its existence.[12]
Teaching
editJohnson got her start teaching in the NYU Cinema Studies Department.[13]
Publishing
editShe penned a regular column for L Magazine in New York. Her work has appeared in numerous publications, including ArtReview, Art & Australia, Art in America, Artkrush, The Daily Beast,[14] FlashArt, Flavorpill, The Guardian,[15] The Huffington Post,[16] Hyperallergic,[17] More Intelligent Life,[18] New York Press, NYFA Current, Print (magazine),[19] The Reeler, Time Out NY.[20]
She attended the 2007 iCommons conference in Croatia as a blogger. In 2008, she served on the board of the Rockefeller Foundation New Media Fellowships and became the first blogger to earn a Creative Capital Arts Writers grant from the Creative Capital Foundation which is part of the Andy Warhol Foundation. She has also served on a panel for ArtPrize.[21]
She contributed to Paper Monument's first book, I Like Your Work: Art and Etiquette.[22][23]
In December, 2011, Johnson was named in a federal libel lawsuit in United States district court for a May, 2011 article she published in Art Fag City, which suggested an art restorer was a forger and committed crimes.[24]
Sound of Art
editIn November 2010 Johnson released an LP called "Now That's What You Call Net Art", a DJ battle record that compiles mixes based from sounds recorded in art spaces, galleries, and museums in Manhattan and Brooklyn, pitting the neighboring boroughs against each other. Johnson raised over $11,000[25] with a Kickstarter campaign to fund the project, calling upon sound art lovers and a cadre of collectors to pre-purchase the album. Johnson predicted the project would spawn follow-up records, including East Coast vs. West Coast, and Canada vs. USA.[26] Johnson told WNYC's Carolina Miranda that the Brooklyn recordings sound more DIY.[27]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Diehl, Travis (2024-05-28). "Want to Succeed as an Artist? Click Here". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2024-07-28.
- ^ "About". VVrkshop. Retrieved 2024-07-28.
- ^ Leifheit, Matthew (2014-11-20). "How Paddy Johnson Built a One-Person Blog into a Mainstay of the New York Art Scene". Vice. Retrieved 2024-07-28.
- ^ "Art F City". Art F City. Retrieved 2024-07-28.
- ^ Johnson, Paddy (November 18, 2014). "Order Your "Nude Artists as Pandas" Prints and Calendar Today". ArtFCity.
- ^ "Donate and Receive a Nude Artists as Pandas Print or Calendar".
- ^ Munro, Cait (November 17, 2014). "Artists Dress As Nude Pandas for Art F City Calendar". artnet news.
- ^ "Marc Swanson's in Art F City's panda calendar", Los Angeles Times, 2016, archived from the original on 30 October 2016
- ^ "Paddy Johnson - Grantees - Arts Writers Grant". www.artswriters.org. Retrieved 2024-07-28.
- ^ Diehl, Travis (2024-05-28). "Want to Succeed as an Artist? Click Here". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2024-07-28.
- ^ Diehl, Travis (2024-05-28). "Want to Succeed as an Artist? Click Here". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2024-07-28.
- ^ "Paddy Johnson's VVrkshop: Game On for Artists – Art Spiel". 2024-09-02. Retrieved 2024-09-03.
- ^ "Paddy Johnson". tisch.nyu.edu. Retrieved 2024-07-28.
- ^ "Paddy Johnson - The Daily Beast". 2009-03-31. Archived from the original on 2009-03-31. Retrieved 2021-09-11.
- ^ Paddy Johnson (2009-05-05). "What next for the beleaguered Rose Art Museum? | rump". theguardian.com. Retrieved 2014-02-18.
- ^ "Paddy Johnson". Huffingtonpost.com. Retrieved 2014-02-18.
- ^ "Paddy Johnson". Hyperallergic. 2023-08-31. Retrieved 2024-07-28.
- ^ "Authors | 1843". June 20, 2014. Archived from the original on August 16, 2011.
- ^ PrintMag (2011-09-07). "Print's October 2011 Issue: Table of Contents". PRINT Magazine. Retrieved 2024-07-28.
- ^ ""Playlist"". Time Out New York. 2012-03-15. Retrieved 2024-07-28.
- ^ "2008 Grants and Five-Year Renewal of Program". e-flux. February 21, 2009. Archived from the original on December 19, 2023. Retrieved December 19, 2023.
- ^ "Paper Monument". papermonument.com. Retrieved 2024-07-28.
- ^ Johnson, Paddy (2009). I Like Your Work: Art and Etiquette [English] (1st ed.). Brooklyn, NY: Papermonument. ISBN 978-0979757525.
- ^ "CultureGrrl | Paddy Johnson of "Art Fag City" Blog (and 10 others) Sued by Controversial Art Authenticator". Artsjournal.com. 2011-12-12. Retrieved 2014-02-18.
- ^ "The Sound of Art by Paddy Johnson » Updates — Kickstarter". Kickstarter.com. Retrieved 2014-02-18.
- ^ Sutton, Benjamin (2010-09-28). "Paddy Johnson Discusses Her Sound of Art Project | The Measure | The L Magazine - New York City's Local Event and Arts & Culture Guide". The L Magazine. Retrieved 2014-02-18.
- ^ "The Art of Vinyl: Rethinking the LP | WNYC | New York Public Radio, Podcasts, Live Streaming Radio, News". WNYC. Retrieved 2024-07-28.