JOHNSON, Carla Rae

An extremely witty sculptor, working in a tradition mixing prodigious construction with social satire, she specializes in large installations filled with various objects on a theme. What looked like shelves of uniformly designed books in Grey Matters: The Last Library (1990) turned out to contain facsimiles made of styrofoam, the lightness of the material reflecting ironically on the weight, both intellectual and physical, customarily associated with the original. The Last Chance Salon: Games for...