Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Friday, June 1, 2012

Provincetown Arts 2011 and 2012


Above is last year's Provincetown Arts which contained an advertisement for my 2011 exhibit at Munson Gallery in Chatham.  The new 2012 magazine will feature a large article on my work written by WOMR's Chris Busa plus four reproductions.  You can see new paintings at both the Schoolhouse Gallery in P-Town and the Munson Gallery in Chatham.  Here's the 2011 ad:


Thursday, March 22, 2012

"Legacy in Continuum: Bay Area Figuration" at Bakersfield Museum of Art March 22-May 27, 2012

 




"To increase the complexity of the color action in his recent series, Mitchell Johnson began adding flat distinct areas of color over existing paintings. Each painting becomes like a dynamic quilt, with grids and bars overlaying an image of a town in Italy, a small yard in Denmark, or a California landscape. Using a variety of colors for each rectangular grid, his paintings evolve slowly, arriving at resolution when his colors feel related and are no longer random. Even when Johnson lived in New York City, he was told that  his paintings showed an affinity to the Bay Area artists. Now a transplanted New Yorker, having moved to California over twenty years ago, and meeting many of the original Bay Area artists, Johnson realizes that working two dimensionally naturally brings out his dialogue with the art of the area, especially David Park's use of color." - Roberta Carasso, Ph D. 2012


Exhibit article by Darko Topalski.