Artwork
Leo Johnson is a third generation Cuban-Sicilian, who is immersed in the realms of art, culture and language. His paintings are in many prestigious collections and universities. Florida Gulf Coast University has included one of Leo’s paintings in their permanent collection.
“In my paintings I try to reflect the human spirit-its agonies, joys, exuberance-and peaks and valleys of everyday life,” says Leo. “Also included are the fleeting moments which appear to us once in a lifetime and are gone… Throughout the history of art, mankind has been the motivator, the inspirer, and the force that protects and propels civilization into the future.”
An internationally recognized artist, he has exhibited his works throughout Europe, with his most recent exhibit taking place on the island of Crete off the coast of Greece. He has enjoyed solo shows at Syzgy, Alliance for the Arts, Barrier Island Group for the Arts, De Fleur Gallery in Kassel, Germany, and a Group Show in Finland Leo’s work has been included in numerous group exhibitions including most recently Forever Friends at Watson MacRae Gallery (2020), Alliance for the Arts, Art Lives Here billboard campaign (reproduction of Apple of My Eye) (2019), Edison’s Jungle, Thomas Edison Invitational (2019), Fort Myers Individual Grant Recipient Exhibit at the Sydney & Berne Davis Art Center (2017), the Southwest Florida Annual Juried Painting Exhibit at Rookery Bay in Naples in 2016 and 2017. Leo and Krista Johnson: New Work, January 2009 at the Library Gallery, Florida Gulf Coast University. Spektrale 3 in Berlin, Germany in March.
Bio
Leo studied painting in San Miguel, Mexico, at the Instituto Allende. His European representation is through De Fleur Gallery in Germany.
He developed a curriculum for children and adults art classes at the Alliance for the Arts. He has also lectured at many colleges and museums on abstraction in art.
Johnson has plans for an upcoming exhibit in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.