By: Nixon Borah

Publication: Artweek

Location: Ettinger Gallery, Art Institute of Southern California, Laguna Beach, California

Johanna Jordan’s sculpture certainly has ‘sensuous surfaces and forms’, but otherwise stands separate from the work on the walls in its content as it is in its form. It is a reminder that, in this decade of pluralism, formalist art is alive and well. Precisely cut planes of polychromed aluminum are joined together to form essentially geometrics solids that often pull inward from pointed extensions, as if they were dancers taking breath and stepping forward on their toes.