Bodega Cat with Fruits and Vegetables

Simone Johnson is a gifted NYC-based artist with autism whose beloved drawings of Bodega Cats are regularly featured in the Outsider Art fairs. This 1000-piece puzzle features her artwork.
A 1,000-piece puzzle featuring the artwork of Simone Johnson.
Bodega cats are as essential to New York City as the subway! The skyscrapers! The yellow cabs! Bodega cats are cute, sure, but really, they’re around to keep mice out of bodegas, which are mainstays of NYC culture. Simone Johnson is their eager and gifted portraitist, capturing them at work—which is to say, napping on crates of fruits, stacks of canned beans, and amidst twelve packs of beer, one eye always open for intruders.

Simone Johnson was born in 1971 in Manhattan and currently lives in Staten Island. Her whimsical and imaginative art depicts brightly colored scenes of animals, particularly cats. She has participated in a number of Outsider Art exhibitions in New York and abroad and her work is included in numerous private collections. Simone creates her work at Pure Vision Arts (PVA) studio.