PDX Contemporary Art is pleased to present (in)finite, an exhibition of new works by artist Johannes Girardoni.

Johannes Girardoni’s works are reductive investigations of color, form, light and space. With an elemental material vocabulary, the work’s physical constellation becomes both the carrier of an explicitly painterly event while also being the foundation of an immaterial phenomenon. Opposites and contradictions are fundamental themes in his work: the contrast of fullness and void, opening and closing, and things experienced physically and virtually. His pieces are at once colorfield paintings and sculptural objects, emphatic in their materiality and appealing to the sensory perceptions of the viewer.

Johannes Girardoni is an Austria American multi-media and installation artist. Over the past two decades, Girardoni’s work has been driven by exploring the relationship between matter and light, how that dynamic affects perception, and why combinations of natural and artificial phenomena can fundamentally shift our experience and understanding of site and space. Girardoni’s diverse works range from purely non-technological – using only base materials such as found wood and wax – to hyper- immersive installations in light and sound that blend artificial and human perception.

Born in Vienna and based in New York from 1989-2011, Los Angeles artist Johannes Girardoni received a dual BA in History and Art from Bowdoin College. He also spent time studying at MIT, and was a guest artist at MIT’s Media Lab. With an extensive exhibition history, Girardoni has been in solo and group shows at PDX Contemporary Art (Portland, OR), Lévy Gorvy (London, UK), the Ludwig Museum (Köln, Germany), The Harvard Art Museum (Cambridge, MA), the Austrian Cultural Forum (New York, NY), SNAP (Lyon, France), Bridge (Los Angeles, CA), MOAH (Lancaster, CA), Lukas Feichtner Gallery (Vienna, Austria), Nye+Brown (Los Angeles, CA), L+M Arts (Venice, CA), Quint Contemporary (San Diego, CA), Tomlinson Kong Contemporary (New York, NY), Stedelijk Museum (Schiedam, The Netherlands), Nyehaus (Miami, FL), Elmhurst Museum of Art (Chicago, IL), Galerie Roger Katwijk (Amsterdam, The Netherlands), Marc De Puechredon (Basel, Switzerland), Stephen Haller Gallery (New York, NY), Gebert Contemporary (Santa Fe, NM), Whitney Art Center (Portland, ME), White Cube (Kyoto, Japan), Galerie Lausberg (Düsseldorf, Germany), Galerie Pimm van der Donk (Hamburg, Germany), Cervini-Haas Gallery (Phoenix, AZ), Gallery Nanky de Vreeze (Amsterdam, The Netherlands), and the Austrian Cultural Institute at the Guggenheim Museum (New York, NY). He was also featured at a TED Conference in Vancouver, BC and as part of Personal Structures, an exhibition during the 54th Venice Biennale.

Girardoni’s works are included in the public collections of the Akzo Nobel Art Foundation (Arnhem, The Netherlands), the Agnes Bourne Collection (San Francisco, CA), the Austrian Cultural Forum (New York, NY), CALDIC Collection (Rotterdam, The Netherlands), the Fogg Museum (Cambridge, MA), Mayer-Rieckh Collection (Graz, Austria), MGM Grand (Las Vegas, NV), and the Progressive Art Collection (Cleveland, OH), among others.

Girardoni has been featured and reviewed nationally and internationally, including in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The L.A. Times, ArtNews, Art in America, and Sculpture, among others. Girardoni is the recipient of numerous awards, including the 2019 Francis J. Greenburger Award for exceptional merit and contribution to the world of art.