{"id":141204,"date":"2025-11-15T12:35:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T12:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/141204\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T12:35:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T12:35:16","slug":"paintings-from-north-america-south-america-europe-asia-and-morocco-selected-work-1979-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/141204\/","title":{"rendered":"Paintings from North America, South America, Europe, Asia and Morocco (Selected Work 1979-2025)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Mitchell Johnson, \u201cDomino Sugar (Yellow Plane)\u201d (1989-2025), 16 x 18 inches (\u00a9 Mitchell Johnson)<\/p>\n

Flea Street in Menlo Park, California, is exhibiting art by Mitchell Johnson<\/a> from November 15 through December 20. Paintings from North America, South America, Europe, Asia and Morocco (Selected Work 1979-2025) showcases new works from Johnson\u2019s recent trips to Brazil and Peru, as well as never-before-exhibited paintings from Morocco. Several very early works are also included for contextual support.<\/p>\n

Johnson\u2019s exploration of color perception and art history has been written about in articles by Donald Kuspit, Alexander Nemerov, and Susan Emerling. Most recently, on the occasion of the exhibition Twenty Years in Truro, Abraham Storer wrote in the Provincetown Independent about the importance of color perception in both Johnson\u2019s painting and his annual master color class at Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill:<\/p>\n

\u201cThis September, in what has been an annual event for the past five years, Johnson taught a week-long workshop at Castle Hill in Truro and exhibited his paintings in the gallery there.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018We\u2019re not here to be creative,\u2019 Johnson said to workshop participants on the first day of class. He approaches color like a technician. At the front of the class, he held up three pieces of different-colored paper attached like a scroll. A thin strip of green paper snaked across all the colors.<\/p>\n

\u201cWow,\u201d said one participant, reacting with awe to the way that the green strip looked dramatically different depending on the color it was seen against.<\/p>\n

He continued with this lesson, placing a brown rectangle on a sheet of peach Color-aid paper \u2014 sheets used as a system for studying color theory. \u201cIt looks like the end of the world,\u201d he said. The brown was a full stop on the light, buoyant ground. Then he put the rectangle on his sweater, a darker shade of brown. \u201cNow, it\u2019s the Sun,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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\t\tMitchell Johnson, \u201cPeru (Ancon)\u201d (2025), 16 x 20 inches (\u00a9 Mitchell Johnson)<\/p>\n

Donald Kuspit wrote in Whitehot Magazine in 2024:<\/p>\n

\u201cWhere Cezanne was a proto-modernist, making representational works that were implicitly abstract, Johnson is a post-modernist, making abstract works that are implicitly\u2014often explicitly\u2014representational.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a 2014 essay titled \u201cHeir of Theirs: Mitchell Johnson and Fairfield Porter,\u201d Alexander Nemerov wrote:<\/p>\n

A pleasing thing about Mitchell Johnson\u2019s paintings is how they suggest other artists such as Pierre Bonnard, Edouard Vuillard, Giorgio Morandi, and Josef Albers.\u00a0 The references are pleasing because they do not come across as superficial signs of \u201cinfluence\u201d any more than as melodramatic indications of heroic artistic struggle.\u00a0 Johnson is neither creating a superficial pastiche nor waging an epic battle to win a style of his own.<\/p>\n

In a 2004 ArtNews review of a show at Terrence Rogers Fine Art in Santa Monica, Susan Emerling wrote:<\/p>\n

Mitchell Johnson\u2019s latest oil paintings of European beach scenes are fresh and pleasing. Using large brushy strokes and bright, often improbable colors, Johnson gives dynamic form to everyday life with an Impressionist sensibility.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Mitchell Johnson\u2019s paintings are in the permanent collections of over 35 museums and have also appeared in numerous feature films, including The Holiday (2006), It\u2019s Complicated (2009), Crazy, Stupid, Love (2011), and\u00a0The Family McMullen\u00a0(2025).<\/p>\n

In March 2026, Johnson will exhibit work for the third time at Galerie Mercier in Paris.<\/p>\n

For more information, visit mitchelljohnson.com<\/a> and follow him on Instagram @mitchell_johnson_artist<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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