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... Barry Woods Johnston ...
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Whipping Up Spring
Bronze
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About the Artist
Sculptor Barry Woods Johnston job is to visualize and then breathe life into the inert clay, bronze or stone.
His sculptures, often light and lively in feelings, are generally upbeat. He seeks to compliment an architectural
setting while adding levity, movement, and humanity. Many pieces symbolically incorporate a macro expression often extracted from a micro observation in nature.
Barry Woods Johnston looks for an abstract form that symbolically embodies the overall vision and then integrate that abstraction into a realistic statement.
A graduate in architecture from Georgia Institute of Technology, Barry Johnston studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, served in Vietnam in 1968 and received more sculptural training with Michael Lantz at the
National Academy of Design, and pursued European methods of professional training, along with the study of philosophy and religion with Francis Schaeffer in Switzerland.
He lived in Florence, Italy between 1970 and 1972, studying figure drawing with Madame Simi, plaster casting with Enzo Cardini, and stone carving at Romanelli Studios.
He established a studio in Washington, D.C. for seventeen years, returned to Italy for several years of work and study and, finally, settled into his present studio in Baltimore, MD.
Recently completed sculptural commissions include "Mother and Child", 2005, Bronze, 7' high, commissioned by White River Medical Center as a fountain center for the waiting lobby.
In 2004, He created two life-size figures "The Good Samaritan" for a park in Baltimore and a relief for Notre Dame College of Baltimore called "Mother Teresa".
Other public commissions include a 14' bronze for the front of the City Hall in Hampton, Virginia, a 19' bronze for the entrance
of Lafayette Center in Washington, D.C. and numerous portraits.
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