| 词条 | Donny Johnson |
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Johnson grew up in a family of abusers and criminals, ran away from home at 10, and spent time repeatedly in juvenile detention.[1] He has been in prison since 1980[1] after pleading guilty to second-degree murder and being sentenced to 15 years to life.[2] In the late 1980s, he cut a prison guard's throat[1] and assaulted another, and was convicted for both and sentenced to two additional terms of nine years to life.[2] He's been housed at Pelican Bay State Prison, California, since 1989, and {{as of|2007|lc=on}} was in indefinite solitary confinement in the Secure Housing Unit.[1] The Secure Housing Unit, the highest-security unit at Pelican Bay, did not offer any art supplies, so Johnson created a paintbrush using hair, plastic wrap, and ballpoint pen refill, and created paint from M&M's candy coatings.[1] Johnson is not allowed to profit from his artwork. In 2006, he stated that he intended the money to go to the Pelican Bay Prison Project that helps the children of prisoners.[2] After Johnson sending paintings to a friend, the friend organized an exhibition of work in Mexico.[1] In July 2006 and August 2007, exhibitions of Johnson's paintings were held at the Yam Gallery in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico,[3] {{cns|date=January 2017|with proceeds to go to the Pelican Prison Bay Project.}} On one night, six of his postcard pictures sold there for $500 a piece.[1][2] Prison officials responded by confiscating his art supplies and prohibiting him from sending pictures out, as a punishment for "unauthorized business from inside prison", but eventually allowed him to send pictures out again.[1] {{cns|date=January 2017|On August 4, 2006, The New York Times reported that Johnson has been disciplined for engaging in unauthorized business, but this proved not to be the case and Johnson continues to produce and mail out his work to friends.}}References1. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 {{cite news | url = http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/still-life-the-jailhouse-jackson-pollock-a-501662.html | title = The Jailhouse Jackson Pollock | work = Spiegel Online | location = Hamburg | date = August 24, 2007 | accessdate = 2017-01-01 }} (Note: appears to be largely sourced from The New York Times article.) 2. ^1 2 3 4 {{cite news | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/21/us/21artist.html | title = Behind Bars, He Turns M&M’s Into an Art Form | first = Adam | last = Liptak | date = July 21, 2006 | accessdate = 2017-01-02 }} A version also appeared on page A1 of the New York edition, possibly on July 22, 2006, with the headline "In Prison for Life, He Turns M&M’s Into an Art Form". 3. ^{{cite web | url = http://donnyjohnson.net/exhibitions.html | title = Exhibitions | work = Donny Johnson: The Official Website | publisher = Derek Burrows | location = Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts | accessdate = 2017-01-02 }} External links
9 : 1950s births|Year of birth missing (living people)|Living people|20th-century American painters|21st-century American painters|American male painters|American people convicted of murder|Criminals from California|People convicted of murder by California |
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