Paul Klee + Ray Johnson: TYPOFACTURE

Explore the visual power of text and mark-making in this groundbreaking exhibition connecting two pivotal artists. Paul Klee and Ray Johnson both treated writing and drawing as inseparable forms of expression, transforming letters, symbols, and gestural marks into rich visual languages. Tracing Johnson's artistic lineage back to his studies at Black Mountain College—where he learned Josef Albers's influential "typofacture" technique—the show reveals how observing the tactile qualities of printed and handwritten forms shaped Johnson's collage practice and correspondence art. Discover how Klee's dreamlike symbolism and expressive line work became a lifelong creative touchstone, inspiring Johnson's own layering of marks, arrows, and spirals that accumulate like intimate documentation across the canvas.