My main and continuous Lifetime Career focus is an imaginary worldview; a darkly humorous amalgam of mythic images re-interpreted as Pop Culture. Animation becomes a form of primitiveness representing the lifestyle of an era. An element ofintended goofiness, whimsy and wit runs throughout the composition.Periods of time and historical events are blended and occur simultaneously.content is influenced by UFO conspiracies, grail, alchemical charts, occult,metaphysical and outsider art, the surrealist era of cubism and contemporaries such as The Hairy Who, Peter Saul, George Condo, Victor Brauner and othersof that genre. Composition can be complex with multi-faceted references or assimple as a contrived portrait study with no historical meaning. Each feature ofthe work becomes a center of interest; all equally rendered so as there are nolax spots in the finished piece. My Website: www.8thring.com
Media Gallery
The Good Head 2023-24 20"x24"x 1.5" Watcher: Technological Messiah Collage mounted and acrylic sealed on Ampersand Staged Board.Howard B. Johnson Jr,Man-Dala 2025: 20"x24"1.5": Wheel of Human Creation. Collage mounded and acrylic sealed on Apersand staged board Howard B. Johnson Jr,Man Made Machine Made Man 2024: 20"x24"x1.5" Cloning Device. Collage mounded and acrylic sealed on Apersand staged board Howard B. Johnson Jr.Schrodingers Fortune Cookie [Is there a Future or not ?] 2022-23, 20"x24" x 1.5". Collage mounded and acrylic sealed on Apersand staged board Howard B. Johnson Jr.Behold A King, A Queen 2026: 20"x24"1.5": A Feminine based Futuristic device based on ancient Birthing Chambers. Collage mounded and acrylic sealed on Apersand staged board Howard B. Johnson Jr.Mickey Mouth 2025: 18"x24"1.5": With Little Horn [ The Antichrist: Book of Daniel] Pop Culture Parody on Medieval Hellmouth Paintings. Garbage in Garbage out. Pastel Paper, Graphite, ink, Neo-Color Crayons on Ampersand Staged Board and acrylic sealed Howard B, Johnson Jr.Wish Upon A Bone 2024 18"x24"x.75" Wishbone Jester Fantasy: ink, Hard Stick Medium, Prismacolor Neo-Color Crayons mounted and acrylic sealed on Ampersand Staged Board. Howard B. Johnson Jr.Wonky TV 2021 20"x24"1.5": Television, Media Godhead based on the 1953 Movie The Twonky and Philco late 50's Model Predicta TV. Neo Color Crayons, Prismacolor, Ink. Graphite on Pastel Paper mounted and Sealed with acrylic on Ampersand staged board.Howard B. Johnson Jr.Eat The Meatles 2021 18" x 24" x .75" Parody Piece on the Beatles first album for when they declared themselves more popular than Jesus [1966].i nk Hard Stick Medium, Prismacolor Neo-Color Crayons mounted and acrylic sealed on Ampersand Staged Board. Howard B. Johnson Jr.I Am Barbie, Destroyer Of Worlds. 18"x24"x.75" Parody of Barbie as Kali. Prophecy in releasing the Barbie and Oppenheimer Movie simultaneously. Prismacolor, various hard stick media, ink, Neo-Color Crayons .Pastel Paper on Ampersand Staged Board.Howard B. Johnson Jr.
