Dallas Love Field Airport
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Artist: Stephen T. Johnson
Location: West Tunnel from Parking Garage into Baggage Claim
Description: Giddy-up! is a series of 33 digital prints on glass with ceramic glass colors. The panels read from left to right where Love Field is symbolized as a heart from which Dallas’ iconic Pegasus emerges and subsequently ascends to flight above the lone star of Texas.
About the Artist: Stephen T. Johnson is a highly versatile American artist whose visually arresting and conceptually rich body of work forges connections between words, objects and ideas. His art spans a broad range of concepts, contexts, and mediums including painting, collage, drawing, sculpture, and installations that can be seen in museum and gallery exhibitions, site-specific public art commissions, and through his original award-winning children’s books. Johnson’s drawings and paintings are in numerous private and permanent collections, including the National Portrait Gallery at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C. and the New Britain Museum of Art, Connecticut. Solo exhibitions of his work have been featured at the Memorial Art Gallery at the University of Rochester, New York; the Katonah Museum of Art, New York; and the Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas.