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Mitchell Johnson: Work from Maine, Italy, Newfoundland, and San Francisco
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Mitchell Johnson: Work from Maine, Italy, Newfoundland, and San Francisco

Last updated: January 10, 2025 7:46 pm
Editorial Board Published January 10, 2025
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From January 10 via February 15, Flea Avenue Restaurant in Menlo Park, California, is exhibiting  the color- and shape-driven work of Bay Space artist Mitchell Johnson.  Titled Work from Maine, Italy, Newfoundland, and San Francisco, the present options latest work that proceed the artist’s exploration of shade, notion, familiarity, and scale. Whether or not via the inclusion of bridges, icebergs, lifeguard chairs, skyscrapers, or iconic views, Johnson straddles illustration and abstraction to touch upon the act of seeing and reveal his love of artwork historical past.

In 2014, Stanford artwork historian Alexander Nemerov wrote an essay, “Heir of Theirs: Mitchell Johnson and Fairfield Porter,” for the monograph Shade as Content material. His two opening paragraphs:

“A pleasing thing about Mitchell Johnson’s paintings is how they suggest other artists such as Pierre Bonnard, Edouard Vuillard, Giorgio Morandi, and Josef Albers.  The references are pleasing because they do not come across as superficial signs of “influence” any greater than as melodramatic indications of heroic creative wrestle.  Johnson is neither making a superficial pastiche nor waging an epic battle to win a method of his personal.  Each these artwork historic tales make little sense when taking a look at his artwork.

As an alternative his work are achieved—that phrase, “achieved,” indicating a quiet and intense transit via the work of those different artists.  That transit is a response and a correspondence between him and them, a felt connection, that leaves us outward indicators of affinity, positive, but in addition a extra elusive sense that Johnson is aware of these artists from the within.  And if that’s the case, then what is agreeable about Johnson’s artwork is extra precisely the presence of Bonnard and firm, for any achieved artwork similar to Johnson’s will carry inside itself, as indicators of its seriousness, not simply references to earlier artists however one thing intrinsic or important to their photos.  What is agreeable, then, is that one thing important would seem to dwell on, previous these earlier painters’ long-ago deaths, within the artwork of this inheritor of theirs working in our personal time.  One such artist residing in Johnson’s work is one other of his acknowledged masters, Fairfield Porter.”

Mitchell Johnson “Presidio #20 (Porch)” (2024), 22 x 26 inches, oil on canvas (© Mitchell Johnson, 2025)

Donald Kuspit wrote about Johnson’s work in WhiteHot Journal in 2024: 

“Johnson is a master of abstraction, as his oddly constructivist paintings show, but of unconscious feeling, for his geometry serves to contain and with that control the strong feelings implicit in his strong colors.  Apart from that, his paintings are art historically important, because they seamlessly fuse abstraction and realism, which Kandinsky tore apart to the detriment of both even as he recognized that they were implicitly inseparable, tied together in a Gordian knot, as they masterfully are in Johnson’s paintings.”

Johnson’s work are within the everlasting collections of over 35 museums and have appeared incessantly within the New York Instances Journal, the New Yorker, and WSJ Journal. They’ve additionally appeared in quite a few function movies together with The Vacation (2006) and Loopy, Silly, Love (2011).

BonavistaBlueIceberg20x30Mitchell Johnson “Bonavista (Blue Iceberg)” (2024), 20 x 30 inches, oil on canvas (© Mitchell Johnson, 2025)

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