Through image and form across a variety of media, tactics and disciplines, artist Andrew Johnson explores social and political injustices, wrestling with the trappings of distinguishing between aesthetic, political and moral orders. He treats and presents representation - not as a hermetic mimetic pictorial tradition - but as an agency to awaken and combat torpor. Invoking both the physical properties and social histories of materials, he builds on and transforms their meaning, often arriving at the antithesis of signs - yielding works made not to be read, but to arrest. With bleak humor, he engages with representation as a challenging and damaging necessity, a channeling of power, a tool, a force.