First Responder

Leroy Johnson

First Responder, 201845.7 x 61cm18000 USD
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MaterialGalleryLocation
mixed media, collage on boardMargot SamelNew York City
Description
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This vibrant, urban landscape painting features a colorful collage of architectural elements against a striking blue sky. The composition is a dynamic blend of geometric shapes, textures, and patterns, capturing the energy and visual richness of a bustling city neighborhood. The artist employs a mix of representational and abstract styles, blending realism with expressive, almost cubist-inspired fragmentation. This piece likely reflects the artist's intention to convey the vibrancy and complexity of urban life through a visually captivating artistic interpretation. ...

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Leroy Johnson
Artist
Leroy Johnson
1937, American

With a documentarian’s eye but a poet’s gaze, Leroy Johnson (1937-2022, Philadelphia, PA) surveyed the pleasures, hardships, and contradictions within the Philadelphia neighborhoods where he spent his life. Through his occupations as a social worker, rehab counselor, teacher of disabled youth, and school administrator, Johnson pierced the fabric of collective human experience more deeply than most. Constructed largely from materials found during his daily commutes, his house sculptures are replete with the textures of reality. Johnson represented the city as an accretion of marks. Intentional declarations graffitied on walls hold equal weight as the subtle beauty of the residue of life, of signage and surfaces worn and sunbleached past legibility—their degradation becomes, through Johnson’s attention, painterly abstraction authored not by a single artistic hand but by the vast social forces at play. These sculptures are labyrinths of referent and possibility. Leroy Johnson (1937-2022, Philadelphia, PA) received his master’s degree in Human Services from Lincoln University in 1988. Johnson has presented solo exhibitions at Margot Samel, New York, NY (2025); Mercer County Community College, West Windsor, NJ (2023); The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA (2022), among others. His work has been included in group exhibitions at Villanova University Art Gallery (1983), the Camden County Historical Society (1990), Cheltenham Center for the Arts (1996), Gloucester County College (1998), The Clay Studio in Philadelphia (1997, 1999, and 2000), the Art Gallery at City Hall, Philadelphia (1998, 2015, 2017, and 2019), the African Jazz Museum, Kansas City (2002), List Gallery at Swarthmore College (2004), Philadelphia’s Magic Gardens (2011), and Tiger Strikes Asteroid (2021). His work is in the collections of the American Museum of Ceramic Art in Pomona, California and the Clay Studio in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. ...

Leroy Johnson: Artworks
Untitled
Leroy JohnsonUntitled, 201018000 USD
West Philly
Leroy JohnsonWest Philly, 201618000 USD
Untitled
Leroy JohnsonUntitled, 200522000 USD
Temple
Leroy JohnsonTemple, 200022000 USD
Red Truck
Leroy JohnsonRed Truck, 201515000 USD
First Responder
Leroy JohnsonFirst Responder, 201818000 USD
Delphos
Leroy JohnsonDelphos, 201914000 USD
Untitled
Leroy JohnsonUntitled, 200916000 USD
Who Is Eligible?
Leroy JohnsonWho Is Eligible?, 2010Price on Request
Heart of Darkness
Leroy JohnsonHeart of Darkness, 199518000 USD
4 Given
Leroy Johnson4 Given, 2010Price on Request
Stop!
Leroy JohnsonStop!, 201018000 USD
Environmental Terrorist
Leroy JohnsonEnvironmental Terrorist, 200018000 USD
Crosswalk
Leroy JohnsonCrosswalk, 2000Price on Request
EZ Park,c
Leroy JohnsonEZ Park,c, 200518000 USD
You Been Had
Leroy JohnsonYou Been Had, 2000Price on Request
Malcolm
Leroy JohnsonMalcolm, 200016500 USD
Rev. 3:6
Leroy JohnsonRev. 3:6, 200518000 USD
Spirit House
Leroy JohnsonSpirit House, 200522000 USD
RIP
Leroy JohnsonRIP, 200018000 USD
Bad
Leroy JohnsonBad, 200518000 USD
Doll House
Leroy JohnsonDoll House, 1995Price on Request
Untitled
Leroy JohnsonUntitled, 199518000 USD
Act Now
Leroy JohnsonAct Now, 200516500 USD
Wallpaper
Leroy JohnsonWallpaper, 200815000 USD
Juicy
Leroy JohnsonJuicy, 200018000 USD
EZ Park
Leroy JohnsonEZ Park, 200518000 USD
Nails
Leroy JohnsonNails, 200518000 USD
Untitled
Leroy JohnsonUntitled, 201018000 USD
Untitled
Leroy JohnsonUntitled, 200522000 USD
Frankford & Girard
Leroy JohnsonFrankford & Girard, 201219500 USD
Margot Samel
Gallery
Margot Samel
New York City