Miami – June 26, 2005 – Faktura Gallery presents its fourth show, “ Sniffing Plastic Roses ”, owner and artist Jacquelyn Jackson Johnston's first solo show in Miami. In this exhibition, Johnston demonstrates her wide range of artistic production, including conceptual work, installation, audience participation performance, photography, painting and writing. She is influenced by her childhood in Santiago, Chile and her studies at Columbia University, NYC. Many of the new pieces are inspired by her new home in Miami , and address issues as diverse as advertisements on South Beach to the stray pet overpopulation in Little Haiti.

Never settling for just making artwork to be seen by the limited crowd inside gallery walls, Johnston is insatiable in finding new ways to bring art to a wider audience and for a greater good. During the weeks prior to the exhibition, she will perform her New York-acclaimed piece “ Virgin Canvas ”, where she allows people passing by on the street to paint on her. Virgin Canvas will also be performed during the opening. In addition, the show will present a photography installation, “ Sniffing Plastic Roses ”, which romanticizes, through photography and ambience, the grim fate of many street animals in order to question the viewer about modern ironies, such as the tolerance of pain for beauty and the loss of every day kindness in a high-speed world. To make a difference as well as art, Johnston and Faktura Gallery are officially launching Faktura Pets , an informal program where strays found in the neighborhood are taken in, cleaned up, and placed in loving homes. A puppy and a kitten were found in the past couple of weeks, and are already in their new homes. Faktura Gallery has also invited the Humane Society to feature pets in needs of homes during the openings.

The show's opening will also coincide with completion of “ Little Hades ”, an enormous mural located in front of Faktura Gallery. Johnston brought together more than ten of the best graffiti artists from Miami to create a piece that commemorates the past year's artists lost to drugs, jail or death.

THIS SHOW PUSHES THE LIMITS OF WHAT AN ART SHOW CAN ACCOMPLISH,

PLEASE COME SEE WHAT THE NEXT GENERATION OF ARTISTS HAVE IN STORE FOR AN ART-AIDED MIAMI.

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