Looking to O’Keefe’s highly prolific residency at Ghost Ranch, Johnson crafts super saturated motifs and pigments reminiscent of the Painted Desert, sweeping dunes composed of brilliant, stratified layers of color. Trailing florals motif floats against a gently crackled ground that bears a lustrous surface, painted in layers until it fairly glows with the effects of time and sun.

Tales of ochre and rich vermillion punctuate sky and water blues featured at Abiquiu Lake, a natural mirror that reflects and deconstructs a utopian idyll of brightly colored red and yellow hills, jagged white cliffs, pale greens of cedar, and bleached desert stones, much like the traditional patterns of cheetah and herringbone seen in the collection, that are reengineered to blurred, irregular effect.