Chris Johanson's art, a meditative practice, focuses on healing. Using discarded materials like drop cloths and clothing on recycled stretcher bars, his paintings blend figuration and abstraction. They feature swirling shapes and floating heads, creating energetic, tonally muted compositions that explore impermanence and fluidity.Part of a series of works whose titles play on former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld's concept of the "unknown knows," Unknow Know with What Is posits imaginative work as a survival tactic. Although Rumsfeld offered famously contradictory definitions, including "things that you think you know, that it turns out you did not," the touchstone for Johanson is Rumsfeld's method of evaluating the "unknown knowns," which he claimed to be the main purpose of his department, with the work of imagination.