You're listening to the savvy painter podcast, episode number 37.

Welcome to the savvy painter podcast, the podcast for artists who mean business.

Here's your host, Antrice Wood.

Hello, it's Antrice and welcome to another episode of the Savvy Painter

podcast. I am really excited to have Mitchell Johnson on the show with me today. If you are as

obsessive about color theory as I am, this is the episode for you. We're going to talk about the

role of color in his work and how it

enables him to move seamlessly between abstraction and representation. Joseph

Albers, Johann Zayton, and Georgio Morandi have heavily influenced his work, and he's going to tell you how.

We also dig into the business side.

Mitchell is convinced that there's an audience for your work, but it's your responsibility to go find them.

We talk about some of the maverick techniques he used to get his work in front of the right people.

Mitchell's paintings have been acquired by the Kemper Art Museum in Kansas City and

the Ogan Quit Museum of Art in Maine.

His work has also appeared in a mountain of publications, including Art in America, The New York Times, American Artist, Huffington Post, and

the list goes on and on and on.

It's a pleasure and an honor to have Mitchell Johnson as my guest today. Mitchell, welcome to the podcast. and So not many artists I think mix representational and abstract painting simultaneously like you do and it seems to confuse people because I think sometimes people are more comfortable when they can label an artist or put them in a box.

And I recently read this article by John Seed and the Huffington Post and if you don't mind,

I'd like to read a quote from that article because I thought it was really interesting.

Okay.

You said it's all about investigating color and how it always fools us.

I never planned series or bodies of work or think about style and

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