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JOHANNA
AENDERL
ARTIST - BROOKLYN, NY

SERIES

FISH OUTTA WATER

2021 - CURRENT

The large-scale monotypes in "Fish Outta Water" imagine near-futures as a response to eco-anxiety. The work is symbolic. Are the figures delaying, denying, picking flowers when they’re in the middle of a crisis? Or are they saving what they can, while they can, to build something in the future?

Anxiety forces one to be in the present, and try to predict what lies ahead. It is imperfect and susceptible to flawed conclusions but it can also spur action and creative solutions. These are the contradictions this series explores.

In situ, Fish Outta Water exhibition, 2023, Brooklyn, NY

In situ, Fish Outta Water exhibition, 2023, Brooklyn, NY

In situ, Fish Outta Water exhibition, 2023, Brooklyn, NY

Johanna Aenderl, What It's Like to Be a Thistle, 2023, trace monotype on paper mounted to archival matboard & stretched canvas, 23x17

Johanna Aenderl, In the Weeds, 2023, trace monotype

Johanna Aenderl, 2021, Fish Outta Water, trace monotype on paper

Johanna Aenderl, 2022, It's Just Allergies, trace monotype on paper

Johanna Aenderl, 2021, Not So, Busy Bee, trace monotype on paper

Johanna Aenderl, Smoke in Ur Eyes, Flowers in Ur Heart, 2022, trace monotypes on paper

Johanna Aenderl, This Wetland Lizard, 2022, trace monotype print on paper

Where There's Smoke, 2022, trace monotype on paper, 17.5x16.5, image of woman covering her face with handkerchief with branches on fire in background

Johanna Aenderl, Detritus Anon, 2022, trace monotype on paper

Skylight, 2022, trace monotype collage on paper, 15x10.5; image of bird with square abstracted landscape for body and smaller bird in distant background

Johanna Aenderl, 2022, Stop and Smell the Daisies, trace monotype on paper

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