#mitchell johnson

“Truro n.6” (2005)

oil on canvas

Mitchell Johnson’s “Nothing and Change.”

Opening on Thursday, September 8th, 2022 at Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill in Castle Hill, Massachusetts is a retrospective of California-based artist Mitchell Johnson’s (Previously on Supersonic Art) work from 1990 to 2022 entitled, “Nothing and Change.”

Writer Chris Busa said of Johnson’s work in Provincetown Arts Magazine in 2012:

“If many of Johnson's paintings are titled after the places that inspired them, no such places actually exist. Each one is a collage of compressed intimacies spread out over the months it takes to paint them. He has done what Edwin Dickinson called Premier Coup, in which a painting is completed outdoors in one blow. Yet his typical practice is to hold a painting for several months, or more, in the studio, to see if a painting stands the test of repeated looking, often involving the process of memory revision, where a succession of impressions gained over weeks or months is expressed as continuous flow.”

Jonesboro gunman dies in crash

Andrew Golden, aka Drew Grant, from 2008

Mitchell Johnson and Andrew Golden were 13 and 11 respectively when they committed a school shooting at Westside Middle School in Jonesboro, Arkansas. It was 1998 when the pair killed five and injured others. At the time, Arkansas did not have a law in place that could keep the pair behind bars past their 21st birthdays. Mitchell Johnson was released in…