Mitchell Johnson Abstract Work 2005-2010

Mitchell Johnson

Arts & Photography

Menlo Books

This 2011 catalog of Mitchell Johnson's paintings includes 40 color plates. American poet, Peter Campion, interviews Johnson about his studio practice and approach to color. This popular 48 page catalog accompanied exhibitions in San Francisco and Menlo Park. Johnson's paintings have appeared in ARTnews, Art in America, the NY Times Magazine, American Artist, Oprah's Next Chapter, The Mindy Project, Southwest Art, San Francisco Magazine, Provincetown Arts, Cape Arts Review, ArtScope, Art Ltd., Modern Painters, The NY Times T Magazine, Sunset Magazine, Gentry, The Huffington Post, American Contemporary Art, and many feature films including The Holiday (2006), It s Complicated (2009), The Lodger (2009), and Crazy Stupid Love (2011). Based in Silicon Valley, Mitchell Johnson moved to California in 1990 after completing his MFA at Parsons School of Design in New York City. Johnson was heavily influenced by his NY teachers Paul Resika, Leland Bell, Larry Rivers, Robert DeNiro, Sr., John Heliker and Nell Blaine many former students of Hans Hofmann. Johnson divides his time between his California studio and his favorite painting locations in Italy, France, Cape Cod and Denmark. His paintings can be found in over 700 collections including the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the New Mexico Museum of Art, the Frederick R. Weisman Museum at Pepperdine, New Britain Museum of American Art, the Ogunquit Museum of American Art and the Federal Reserve Board in Washington, DC. Johnson s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions in San Francisco, Los Angeles, St. Helena, Portland, New York, Oakland, Palo Alto, Menlo Park, Washington, DC and Kansas City. He is represented by I. Wolk Gallery, Ma(i)sonry Napa Valley, Schoolhouse Gallery and FilmArt LA. All thirteen of his publications are for sale at Amazon.com. He is married to the writer, Donia Bijan.

Mitchell Johnson: Color Lessons (2011)

Peter Campion

<p>This massive 288 page monograph includes over 250 color plates and is published to accompany an exhibit of Mitchell Johnson's paintings at the Bakersfield Museum of Art in 2015 as well as several San Francisco exhibitions. Essays written by Alexander Nemerov, Jennifer Samet, John Seed, John Goodrich, Claude Pichevin, Marilena Pasquali, Sofie Filt Læntver and Peter Campion establish a context for Johnson's color and shape driven work. The book also includes a 2009 interview by Art Historian Peter Selz from the Smithsonian Archives of American Art. Numerous color reproductions of paintings by Bonnard, Vuillard, Morandi and Josef Albers explore Corot's relationship to Modernism and contemporary painting and suggest a separate branch to 20th century art history as first identified by Fairfield Porter.</p>

Mitchell Johnson: Color as Content (2014)

Peter Selz

John Seed

John Goodrich

Alexander Nemerov

Jennifer Samet

Sofie Filt Læntver

Claude Pichevin

Marilena Pasquali

<p>This 40 page exhibition catalog goes with several 2014 Mitchell Johnson shows in California. Johnson's giant 78x120 cityscapes are on view at San Francisco's landmark Bank of America building March 15-May 31, 2014. This catalog includes 65 color plates of both abstract and representational paintings 5 of which are in US Museums. The color reproductions are excellent - the best of all Johnson publications. 25 of the reproductions are paintings from North Truro illustrating the impact of Cape Cod on all of Mitchell Johnson's work, including several recent paintings from Tokyo and Seoul. Mitchell Johnson s paintings have appeared in ARTnews, Art in America, the NY Times Magazine, American Artist, Oprah s Next Chapter, The Mindy Project, Southwest Art, San Francisco Magazine, Provincetown Arts, Cape Arts Review, ArtScope, Art Ltd., Modern Painters, The NY Times T Magazine, Sunset Magazine, Gentry, The Huffington Post, American Contemporary Art, Revenge (Season 3) and many feature films including The Holiday (2006), It s Complicated (2009), The Lodger (2009), and Crazy Stupid Love (2011).</p>

Mitchell Johnson: Color From Tokyo, Truro, Seoul, San Francisco, Maine & Europe (2014)

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