About this mixed media artist.

Al Johnson is a well-known and recognized abstract expressionist painter, whose works can be found in private, public, and corporate collections, and exhibitions globally. He is known as a notable African American Expressionist Artist as well as a Commercial Artist, creating storyboard art for feature, documentary, and animated films. His storyboard art clients in the commercial and film industry are numerous, including the NFL Super Bowl, Oscar® Winning Film “The Hours” and Darren Aronofsky’s “The Fountain”. His ability to conceptualize with a cinematic eye has led to many accomplishments.  The scope of his work crosses many genres, including the creation of the original artistic renderings of the Georgia Aquarium and the oil-on-canvas commissioned portrait of Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm, permanently installed in Brooklyn Borough Hall, and listed in the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery Catalogue for American Portraits.  During the Centennial Tribute to Romare Bearden, Mr. Johnson was chosen as a Bearden 100 artist. He has exhibited at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum in Japan, Susan Bentley Gallery in London, Maison de Arts in Le Bacares, France, the Guangzhou International Art Fair in China, and an exhibition curated by Jordan Kantor during his tenure as Assistant Curator at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Most recently his work was featured at the Salzburg Global Seminar, an organization at the forefront of global movements for change in Salzburg, Austria.  His portrait which launched the naming of the Shirley Chisholm United States Post Office in Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn is on exhibition during the 2024 - 2025 Museum of the City of New York exhibition, “Changing the Face of Democracy: Shirley Chisholm at 100”.  He is also featured in MGM’s Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art’s American Duet: Jazz and Abstract Art exhibition, w. Critics have praised Al Johnson’s artwork for its embrace of cosmic abstraction and its exploration of new media.  

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