Jenny Johannsen
Jenny Johannsen is an abstract artist, whose work explores the balance between structure and flow through paint, fabric, and water. Drawing from her background in psychology and her roots in modern quilting, she combines precision with improvisation to create layered, dynamic compositions. Her pieces investigate the tension between control and release, inviting viewers into that same dialogue.
Artist: Jenny Johannsen
Title of Piece: Fruit Stripe
Size: 20 x 24 x 1.5in
Medium: ink and flashe on canvas
Price: $800
Description: Fruit Stipe radiates bright, citrus color that feels fresh, bold, and full of energy. Saturated bands of yellow, orange, and red stretch across the surface, creating a sense of tension and movement, as if the color itself has been pulled taut.
Artist: Jenny Johannsen
Title of Piece: Underlit
Size: 36 x 48 x 1.5 in
Medium: ink and flashe on canvas
Price: $2275
Description: Underlit captures the quiet glow of lights beneath the surface of water. Bands of deep blue and green move like slow currents, carrying light through the composition in a suspended, drifting motion. The image itself appears to float, as if lifted gently by the same underwater glow it depicts.
Name: Jenny Johannsen
Title of Piece: Interdependence
Size: 10 x 10 x 1.5in
Medium: ink and flashe on canvas
Price: $350
Description: Interdependence shows two flowing forms leaning toward and shaping one another, together creating an abstract circular structure. Translucent layers overlap, allowing color and line to shift where the forms meet. Neither shape stands alone; each is altered by the presence of the other.Framed in a black floater frame. Please note the frame adds about an inch to the size of the canvas.
Name: Jenny Johannsen
Title of Piece: What the Light Touches
Size: 10 x 10 x 1.5in
Medium: ink and flashe on canvas
Price: $350
Description: What the Light Touches explores transformation through translucence, color, and form. Shapes overlap and unfold in ways that suggest both a calla lily and a butterfly, inviting the viewer to move between recognition and abstraction. Light passes through layered color, revealing warmth, shadow, and subtle tension where forms meet. Framed in a black floater frame. Please note the frame adds about an inch to the size of the canvas.
Name: Jenny Johannsen
Title of Piece: Narrow Passage
Size: 10 x 10 x 1.5in
Medium: ink and flashe on canvas
Price: $350
Description: Narrow Passage focuses on movement through a confined space. Broad, translucent shapes in blue and green narrow as they converge, creating a sense of compression and direction. The layered color allows light to pass through, revealing subtle shifts in tone and overlap. Framed in a black floater frame. Please note the frame adds about an inch to the size of the canvas.
Name: Jenny Johannsen
Title of Piece: Up We Go
Size: 20in x 24in x 1.5in
Medium: ink and flashe on canvas
Price: $800
Studio Number: 302B
About the Piece: : Up We Go celebrates the simple joy of an abundance of red balloons rising together, a symbol of happiness that feels both universal and nostalgic. The fluid, upward motion in the piece reflects how joy expands and carries us with it. It also acknowledges the fragility of that joy, reminding us how delicate and fleeting celebration can be, even as it fills us with lightness and hope.
Name: Jenny Johannsen
Title of Piece: The Air Was Dancing
Size: 30in x 40in x 1.5in
Medium: ink and flashe on wood panel
Price: 1950
Studio Number: 302B
About the Piece: : This piece celebrates the joy found in movement and the way air itself seems to come alive when streamers twist and dance. The Air Was Dancing captures a fleeting moment when color, light, and motion join together in effortless rhythm. It also honors the beauty in imperfection, the uneven edges and shifting forms that make joy feel both real and earned. This celebration is not an illusion or for show, but something genuine that carries traces of effort, resilience, and lived experience.
Title of Piece: Plume Bloom
Artist: Jenny Johannsen
Size: 36in x 36in x 1.5in
Medium: Ink and flashed on canvas
Price: $1,950
About the Piece:
Plume Bloom is inspired in part by Kansas City’s identity as the City of Fountains, where water creates movement, gathering, and reflection within a landlocked landscape. Suspended forms rise and fold like drifting fabric or erupting spray, balancing between fountain, river current, and bloom. The work reflects on the universal pull of water as a source of comfort and belonging. Across places and cultures, water often becomes tied to the feeling of home, whether through fountains, rivers, oceans, or rain.
About the Artist:
Jenny Johannsen is an abstract artist whose creative roots began in modern quilting and textile work. Drawing from that foundation, she creates layered paintings with fluid, fabric-like forms that appear suspended in motion. Her work explores the interaction of color, movement, and surface, capturing fleeting moments where folds, flow, and structure align.
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