San Francisco's iconic skyscraper, 555 California Street, will host an exhibit of 22 large scale paintings by Menlo Park artist, Mitchell Johnson, August 19-October 25, 2019 in their Plaza Gallery. Johnson's color and shape driven paintings have appeared regularly in the New York Times Magazine since 2013 and are in many US museums and private collections such as the Anne Marion Collection, the Doerr Collection in Palo Alto and the Senator Bill Bradley Collection. The late Bay Area art historian, Peter Selz, interviewed Johnson for the Smithsonian Archives of American Art in 2009 and stressed the importance of Johnson's relocation from New York City to the Bay Area in 1990 and the impact of "California light" on Johnson's eclectic and optimistic work. Selz anticipated how Johnson would develop over the next ten years and eventually "paint realist paintings that are basically abstract paintings and abstract paintings that are figurative."
The exhibit includes cityscapes of San Francisco and New York, icebergs from Newfoundland, large abstract paintings and compositions from New England.
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The exhibit includes cityscapes of San Francisco and New York, icebergs from Newfoundland, large abstract paintings and compositions from New England.
San Francisco's iconic skyscraper, 555 California Street, will host an exhibit of 22 large scale paintings by Menlo Park artist, Mitchell Johnson, August 19-October 25, 2019 in their Plaza Gallery. Johnson's color and shape driven paintings have appeared regularly in the New York Times Magazine since 2013 and are in many US museums and private collections such as the Anne Marion Collection, the Doerr Collection in Palo Alto and the Senator Bill Bradley Collection. The late Bay Area art historian, Peter Selz, interviewed Johnson for the Smithsonian Archives of American Art in 2009 and stressed the importance of Johnson's relocation from New York City to the Bay Area in 1990 and the impact of "California light" on Johnson's eclectic and optimistic work. Selz anticipated how Johnson would develop over the next ten years and eventually "paint realist paintings that are basically abstract paintings and abstract paintings that are figurative."
The exhibit includes cityscapes of San Francisco and New York, icebergs from Newfoundland, large abstract paintings and compositions from New England.
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The exhibit includes cityscapes of San Francisco and New York, icebergs from Newfoundland, large abstract paintings and compositions from New England.
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555 California Street, San Francisco, CA 94104
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