Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Acquire Mitchell Johnson's Potrero Hill, 2004

©2004 Mitchell Johnson, gouache on paper, 9x12 inches, Collection of Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Achenbach Foundation. Gift of Bruce and Julie Tenenbaum.

Mitchell Johnson Painters' Table Interview June, 2012

"Truro Breezeway," 2012 Private Collection, California

You can read the interview here.

Mitchell Johnson & Chris Busa on WOMR's Art Talk August, 2011

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:

"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.