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Patricia Johanson (1940- ) is an Earth sculptor and architect from Buskirk, N.Y.

From the description of Patricia Johanson papers, 1964-1998. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83609040

Patricia Johanson, born in 1940, is an environmental sculptor and architect who creates large scale public works to solve environmental problems and create habitat and public recreational space. She graduated from Bennington College in 1962 and earned an M.A. in art history at Hunter College (1964). Johanson took civil engineering classes at New York's City College School of Architecture, earning a Bachelor's degree in Architecture in 1977. Inspired by the enormous canvases of the Abstract Expressionists, Johanson created huge sculptures such as Stephen Long (1968) which went beyond the field of vision and interacted with the environment. Johanson designed sculpture for Con Edison's Indian Point Nuclear Generating Plant (1972), the Whitney Colleges at Yale University (1972), and Columbus East High School, Columbus, Indiana (1973). Her architectural projects include Fair Park Lagoon in Dallas, Texas (1981-1982), Tidal Sculpture Garden for Pelham Bay Park in New York (1984), and the San Fransisco baywalk which transformed a new sewer into a public amenity and work of art. Her Park for the Amazon Rainforest (1992), commissioned for the Earth Summit, is an environmental sculpture that provides access from ground level up through the forest canopy along the Amazon River near Obidos, Brazil. Johanson's more recent projects include a master plan and ecological playgrounds for Ulsan Dragon Park (1996), a 912-acre site in South Korea, and the Rocky Marciano Trail and Salisbury River Greenway in Brockton, Massachusetts. Her husband is art historian Eugene C. Goossen.

From the guide to the Patricia Johanson papers, 1964-1998, (Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution)

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Role Title Holding Repository
creatorOf JOHANSON, PATRICIA. Artist file : miscellaneous uncataloged material. Museum of Modern Art (MOMA)
referencedIn Patricia Johanson : vertical file. Centre canadien d'architecture, | Canadian Centre for Architecture | CCA
creatorOf Johanson, Patricia. PAD/D pamphlet file : miscellaneous uncataloged material. Metropolitan Museum of Art, Thomas J. Watson Library
creatorOf Patricia Johanson papers Archives of American Art
referencedIn Johanson, Patricia : Biographical file. Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center
creatorOf Johanson, Patricia, 1940-. Patricia Johanson : artist file : study photographs and reproductions of works of art with accompanying documentation 1930?-1990 [graphic] [compiled by staff of The Museum of Modern Art, New York]. Frick Art Reference Library of The Frick Collection
creatorOf Johanson, Patricia, 1940-. Artist file. Brooklyn Museum Libraries & Archives
referencedIn Johanson, Patricia, 1940- : [miscellaneous ephemeral material]. Metropolitan Museum of Art, Thomas J. Watson Library
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Women artists
Women artists
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Birth 1940-09-08

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