Johannes DeYoung

Grizzly Proof
March 9th- April 12th, 2007

Johannes DeYoung received his MFA from the Cranbrook Academy of Art and
his BFA from the Hite School of Art at the University of
Louisville.His practice incorporates video, performance, painting, and
photography to investigate the psychological complexities of family and
identity.Often dressing in home-made costumes and utilizing found
props, Johannes plays a variety of characters in his own constructed
worlds.By exploring the parameters of communication, his work embraces
disillusionment, impotent dreams, absurdity and failure. Johannes
currently lives in New York and maintains his studio in the Brooklyn
Navy Yard.