"Rod Serling: Submitted for your approval" Artist Gallery

Blackstone Artists Circle Gallery Reception. This artwork will be on display in the upper rotunda gallery for May & June.

“Rod Serling: Submitted for your approval”
Rod Serling (1924-1975) was one of the few television writers to become a household name. In 1959, his television series “The Twilight Zone” premiered and ran until 1964. He wrote an amazing 92 of the 156 episodes that aired and fought hard to get and maintain creative control, hiring other gifted scriptwriters. To this day, it stands as a one-of-a-kind TV series, with the term “Twilight Zone” used in common parlance to evoke something unreal or unexplainable. Serling helped raise television writing to a very high artistic level.

To mark Mr. Serling’s 100th birth year and the 50th anniversary of his passing, I’ve created a series of 15 paintings depicting scenes from some of the most beloved episodes of “The Twilight Zone”. A bit of text explaining each episode depicted could accompany each of the paintings.

About the artist
Gunnar Johnson is an artist and writer whose work has appeared in Mad magazine, Reader’s Digest, The Chicago Tribune, The Baltimore Sun, and The Orlando Sentinel. He worked for 25 years at The Providence Journal and four years at The South Florida Sun Sentinel, where he was on a team that won a Pulitzer Prize. He resides in Middletown.

Summary of previous exhibits
University of Connecticut
Mystic Museum of Art
Hamden Art League
Rhode Island Watercolor Society

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