Just how much marijuana goes into a successful drawing?
A pleasing Charmian Johnson show at Catriona's. Johnson's drawings (like the "motorcycle" above) line the gallery walls, while at its centre, a collector's de-accessioned collection of the artist's pots, installed as a single article, which is to say the collector's article, an expansion of the old adage: when you buy a work of art, you buy a name.
Providence is about names as much as it is about gestures (transactions). The artist who made the work, the collector who acquired it, the dealer who offered it to the public -- not always in that order.
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