Angela Johal, the artist behind Johal Geometrics, grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area during the ‘60s and ‘70s surrounded by the energetically exuberant psychedelic art and music. Johal’s smooth and pristine geometric paintings are reflective of her youth inspired by California’s hard-edged painters and textile designs. Johal paved her own path as a large-scale geometric painter and works full-time in her Bay Area studio.
Authenticity and truthfulness are essential to Johal’s creative work. She further explains, “I want quality, color and a smooth surface level to be the focal point of my paintings. My goal is to create illusions of three-dimensional space with flat color.” Johal is fascinated by the paradox of geometric art, where shapes can be easily understood and complicated at the same time. She believes “geometric shapes are a balance between the world that is visible and the world that is invisible. They reach beyond what the eye can see.”
Music continues to play a fundamental role in her creative process, as she paints in accompaniment to various musical genres. Johal believes that it is possible for people to experience sound when they view her paintings. Johal explains, through this melodic and synesthetic process there is a blending of the senses— "a chromesthetic experience of color on the canvas."
