By: Ralph C. Bond

Publication: Orange Coast, August 1979

Location: Saddleback College Art Gallery, Mission Viejo, California

The concepts behind the multicolored sheet aluminum sculptures of Johanna Jordan, one of two women in the exhibition, are as stimulating as her work. Extractions from a statement regarding her work reveal the complex creative thought process involved in the creation of each piece: ‘As a sculptor who is intrigued with the edges and tensions at the meetings of curved and flat planes, I am exploring the medium of sheet aluminum. It can be cut and filed and bent, but it also has memory, remaining shaped after manipulation into a specific curve. This has allowed me to construct complex, multi-planar forms with bent and plat planes expressing the contrast between opposites but resolving into curved edges…And finally, by painting the forms in hard-edged combinations of receding and advancing colors, I am exploring a third real of contrast, to intensify space and form. My hope is that these elements should ultimately play in complementary counterpoint.’