Artwork by Johannes Valvur will be featured on CCA's official social media channels, including Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn, starting April 27 at 9am PDT. 

ARTIST STATEMENT

/ make fun / it is easy to forget we are human /inter-community peace / knowledge of the sun / fear of safety and cleanliness / Moral:(mōr•āl: a social agreement) / my adolescence is no longer a subculture / fugazi or bad religion? / validation / fake album art / e-whatever / serious memes / seemingly banal or corny / certain cultures should remain outside the art sphere any attempt to drag them in will be a failure / the only way to be successful is to not / rave nostalgia / there are things which I experience that those who lived through the second summer of love will not get to / “the love of it” / worship war-shop / malleability systems / divergence of the best intention and nature / heading towards collective suicide / there exists a thing as too much comfort / something about healing or was it catharsis? / plurality of signification codified / trinity of inequity / science has aided and abetted capitalism / as if rage requires cognition / please gently remind me I am not the central figure / disgust rendered / unimpressed yet inspired / unfinished business / There's no greater passion than wanting to alter someone else's work / personality matters / heaven is a dog park / how do I pray / One burning bush pretty much looks like another / scum adjacent / the edge of all aerosols / hatred for Locke / wanting to die is conservative / constriction until something new comes along, progress doesn’t have to equal rules / this model is a lack of faith in which we are driven to find alternate methods in which to circumnavigate / patrician of spite is the enabling / unutterable visions / some things have multiple names /

BIO 

KNOWN AS: 

Nicholas “Johannes” Valvur 

CAME INTO THIS WORLD: 

3700 California St. / San Francisco, CA, 94118 

LEARNED THINGS AT: 

California College of Art / BFA / Individualized / 2020 

I’VE SHOWN: 

“This is the Best Show Anyone Has Seen and Will Ever See: A Collective Thought From the Entire Universe”, NY MoMA, 2050 

“Dog House Release Party”, Good Mother Gallery, 2020

“NASAD Show”, CCA, 2018 

“First Year Honors Show”, CCA, 2017 

PUBLISHED THINGS:

“Crown of Worms” / Zine / Dog House / Oakland, California / 2019 

“It Doesn’t Surprise Me!” / Zine / Dog House / 2019 

“Dog House” / Book Dog House / Oakland, California / 2019 

INTERESTS: 

Art 

Music 

My dog, Dada 

Nature 

Humankind 

DISLIKES: 

The canon 

Most Country music 

Rude and mean people 

Pre/Proscription Bullshit

Above: Johannes Valvur, Legacy of Debt, 2020. Digital collage, dimensions variable.

To view more work by Johannes Valvur, visit jvalvur.wix.com/mysite or follow @performativecrime on Instagram.