Hello! Thanks for coming out. My name is Deborah Johnson, aka CandyStations. I am a multimedia artist and educator emanating from Brooklyn, NY. I inhabit many creative selves, including creative director, visual librettist, video designer, animator, and performer, collaborating with a breadth of humans on stage and screen. I create multifaceted visual experiences, working with artists including Sufjan Stevens, Sofi Tukker, M83, St. Vincent, Beth Orton, Sarah Kirkland Snider, Annie B. Parson, Tamar-kali, Ray LaMontagne, Kronos Quartet, Alarm Will Sound, Bang On A Can, and Wilco, with performances at Coachella, Disney Concert Hall, Brooklyn Academy of Music, The Museum of Modern Art, MASS MoCA, Radio City Music Hall, Madison Square Garden, The Fillmore, The Ryman, and Wiener Konzerthaus.I’ve produced site-specific performances and installations at SXSW, Lighthouse ArtSpace, Sundance, Brooklyn Academy of Music, 92Y Tribeca, MoMA, Chicago’s Millennium Park, and the Baltimore Museum of Art, with artist residencies at MASS MoCA, The Experimental Television Center, and The Atlantic Center for the Arts. I am a Professor at The Pratt Institute, espousing the magic of Time and Movement and Light, Color, and Design. As a creative director and visual designer, I celebrate the collaborative nature of live performance, accessing a diverse and enduring network of fabricators, lighting designers, artists, and programmers to create transcendent, responsive experiences by merging digital and handmade processes. Everything from lines of code to piles of charcoal is in this studio. If it works, use it — there are no rules.
