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Instructor: Mitchell Johnson
Monday - Friday
September 9 - 13
9am - 12pm
5 sessions
Open Studio: Mon - Thurs, 1 - 4pm

We will use oil paints and unusual colorful still life setups to explore the teachings of Josef Albers and the impact of scale and context on color perception. The class should benefit students of any level who want to improve their objective knowledge of color mixing and color theory as a means of using subtle and complex color relationships in their own creative work.

Mitchell Johnson of Menlo Park, California, a Visiting Artist at the American Academy in Rome (2015) and the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation (2007), is the subject of the monograph, Color as Content. His color and shape driven paintings appear regularly in The New York Times Magazine, WSJ  Magazine, and Art Forum. Johnson divides his time between his favorite painting locations in Europe, Cape Cod, Maine, and Asia. His paintings are in the permanent collections of 28 museums and over 500 private collections. The most recent museum acquisitions were by Museo Morandi in Bologna, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna in Rome, Tucson Museum of Art and the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento. Johnson received his MFA at Parsons in New York in 1990 where he studied with many former students of Hans Hofmann: Paul Resika, Leland Bell, Larry Rivers, Robert De Niro, Sr., Nell Blaine, and Jane Freilicher.  His primary influences are Camille Corot, Josef Albers, Giorgio Morandi and Fairfield Porter. Johnson taught briefly at the Pacific Art League in Palo Alto, CA in 1990-91 and recently resumed teaching color workshops in 2019. In 2020 he will teach workshops in Palo Alto, Truro and New York City.