MIDB Artwork Spotlight: Pine Tree: INFINITY
September 22, 2022
Created in 2004 by artist Catherine L. Johnson, Pine Tree: INFINITY is now installed at MIDB as part of our permanent art collection.
Donated by private collector Dr. Michael and Jane Spencer, the two separate original paintings are positioned vertically as a reflective mirror, an echo, and is presented as a singular painting. The work is an exploration of water, sky, and earth. Each painting measures 53"H x 36"W, with the installation including frame measures 116"H x 46"W.

Johnson, who lived at the Shriners Hospital for Children (the site which is now MIDB) from six months to 3 years old (Mayo Clinic from 3 years old onward, as well as Twin City Orthopedic), says having her art installed at MIDB is "a poignant, powerful, and remarkable full circle for me from a child encased in a heavy plaster body cast, stilled in pain, and placed in an institutional crib face down, to a renown artist offering works, visual gospel songs singing WING, BREATH, FREEDOM – transcendence, nationwide."
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