Gail Robin Mitchell: verticalized transport Sunday Nov 24, 4 - 7pm at Vorderzimmer, 280 Van Buren Street, Brooklyn, NY Gail Robin Mitchell: couped pattern, 32 x 39.5, mixed media, 2017 parts gone sideways tall and proud attest to times  of rolling ‘round streets and highways here to there bound for where? no matter no care they rest in pieces all anew bound to things  they never knew Gail Robin Mitchell: double-pinned 8 key, 4 x 9", mixed media, 2017 Gail Robin Mitchell 1988-1992 The Cooper Union, B.F.A. Spring 1991 Ecole Nationale Superieure Des Arts Decoratifs, Paris, France Currently painting conservator at Amann + Estabrook Conservation, NY, NY Residencies 2019 The Arctic Circle Residency Selected Exhibitions 2018 'Of Women' Rockaway Artists Alliance, Queens, NY 2018 'Recycle' BWAC, Red Hook, Brooklyn, NY 2017 Life On Earth and Volunteer Show at the WAH Center, Brooklyn, NY 2013 ’Priere d’inserer’ Propos...

Vorderzimmer (“Foahduh-Tsimmuh”) means Front Room in German. At Vorderzimmer, artists and makers show their works in the warm setting of a private brownstone’s ground level, street-facing room in Bed-Stuy/Brooklyn. Our classic old moldings and wainscotings contain the scuffs and character of a modest house from 1892. Quarterly salon-style shows can ONLY be viewed during the 3 hours of the opening, which is also the closing. Vorderzimmer strives to introduce viewers to the many beautiful and interesting things that people everywhere create - be they learned artists with day jobs, or self-taught makers of some sort. Our world is alive with such people, and Vorderzimmer shows it, in the lived-in, loved room of a lived-in, loved house. However limited in time, space and turnout, Vorderzimmer gets creators, thinkers and appreciators together “over artwork” physically, not virtually. Intimacy is key. What does it mean to live with something that someone created, in the same quarters wher...