Johnson could easily, perhaps, make a living out of such bucolic scenes but he has also tackled the more complex subject matter of cityscapes. In Pine and Grant (2019-21), the artist has started out depicting, in a realistic manner, a very specific location in San Francisco. It is probably possible to identify the various buildings, because of their architectural features. But this realism is obscured by large square, rectangle and oblong shapes of secondary colors superimposed upon the city backdrop. It is a conscious effort on the artist s part to merge aspects of representation and abstraction in one canvas. This may not be everyone s notion of a San Francisco city scene.
Johnson could easily, perhaps, make a living out of such bucolic scenes but he has also tackled the more complex subject matter of cityscapes. In Pine and Grant (2019-21), the artist has started out depicting, in a realistic manner, a very specific location in San Francisco. It is probably possible to identify the various buildings, because of their architectural features. But this realism is obscured by large square, rectangle and oblong shapes of secondary colors superimposed upon the city backdrop. It is a conscious effort on the artist s part to merge aspects of representation and abstraction in one canvas. This may not be everyone s notion of a San Francisco city scene.
Bullets fly through multiple houses, vehicles after Portsmouth shooting
Kimberly Quimby
and last updated 2021-03-08 16:25:50-05
PORTSMOUTH, Va. â Thereâs anger, frustration and terror in a Portsmouth neighborhood after a shootout over the weekend left homes and vehicles riddled with bullets Saturday evening.
âRelaxing evening, minding your own business, and boom - there was,
pop pop pop pop pop pop, a whole lot of gunshots. It sound like it was an action show,â said Joann Rose.
Rose says it felt like a war was going on in her Cradock neighborhood around 7 p.m.
Her husbandâs car was caught in the crossfire while the family ducked for cover inside.
Over four years, 1951 Coffee has trained 225 refugees from 29 countries, and aims to educate its customers about the challenges refugees and asylees face in seeking, attaining and sustaining employment while adapting to their new homes. Photo (from 2017): Angelica Ekeke
2410 Channing Way (between Dana Street and Telegraph Avenue), Berkeley
Four years ago, in January 2017, just days after Berkeley’s 1951 Coffee Company opened its Channing Avenue cafe staffed entirely by refugees, President Trump enacted his travel ban barring immigrants and refugees from seven predominantly Muslim countries and suspending the entire refugee resettlement program. Doug Hewitt, 1951 Coffee’s co-founder and CEO, recognized a bright side to that calamitous decision.
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