Ian Johnson Owes It All To Skateboarding

by The Editors on February 14, 2008

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The San Francisco Chronicle profiled Ian Johnson today mentioning that art school dropout has work being “featured right now at San Francisco’s White Walls Gallery, another show is coming up in Tokyo in May and a book on his art is due in August.” And Ian says he owes it all to skateboarding.

“Skateboarding is entirely responsible for where I am right now with my art career,” says Johnson, who is known for his detailed portraits of authors and jazz music icons from the ’40s, ’50s and ’60s. “I’ve always been into art but never really considered it as a career until Western Edition launched.”

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[Link: San Francisco Chronicle]

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