Whether in the studio or plein air, Mitchell Johnson revels in the act of painting. His airy, sun-splashed landscapes of Italy, France, Denmark and California vibrate with a power that comes from years of painting on site. The casual nature of his magical compositions is the result of a dedicated studio practice. While schooled in the rigors of New York abstraction, he does not abandon representation, but rather constructs a context for it: color becomes form, line becomes definition, and paint becomes space.