Deitch Projects‘ 18 Wooster St. Gallery is currently exhibiting a new installation by artist Chris Johanson. Totalities in the title of the new show which has been described as a “contemporary living installation” that includes plants, animals, and people as well as more traditional paintings and sculpture. The artist, who is known for works that are inspired from his own life, has decided to simultaneously focus on the macro and micro, meditating on the planet’s position in the universe as well as the natural world of earth. Most of the material for show has been found or salvaged near the artist’s Brooklyn studio or from friends and fellow artists.

Johanson currently lives and works in New York City and San Francisco. In addition to Deitch Projects, the artist has also exhibited with Jack Hanley Gallery in San Francisco and Georg Kargl Fine Art in Vienna, Austria.