Sun Nov 24, 4 - 7pm - Gail Robin Mitchell: verticalized transport

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 D’Artisites, Galerie 29, rue de la Fontaine au Roi, Paris, France
2011 ‘Rendezvous’, Domaine St.Hilaire, Roiffe 86, France
2011 Salmagundi Club, Japan Relief Auction, New York, NY
2010 Orient Historical Society Fall Art Exhibition and sale, Orient, NY
2009 ‘Piecing It Together’, Brevard Art Museum, Melbourne, FL
2007 Rueil-Malmaison group show, France
2007 Thai Cafe solo show, Brooklyn, NY
2005 Art Gotham ‘The Square Foot Show’, New York, NY
2005 Tsunami Benefit Show, Brooklyn, NY
2004 ‘generations.04’ at A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY
2003 Ute Stebich Gallery group show, Lenox, Ma.
2003 ‘yellow vs. yellow’ 2-person show at Art Center SF, S. Beach, FL
2003 ‘Everything Must Go’ group show, Brooklyn, NY
2002 Whitney Works 3-person show, Greenport, NY
2001-2 Lumberhouse Gallery group show, Fukushima, Japan
2001 Williamsburg Art & Historical Center 4-person show, Brooklyn, NY
1998 ‘Travel Of Spirit’ at Lumberhouse Gallery, Fukushima, Japan
1997 Lumberhouse Gallery group show, Fukushima, Japan
1996 Cooper Union Alumni Show
1996 ST Gallery solo show, New York, NY
1995 ‘Kakejiku’ (Scrolling in NY) a one year traveling exhibit in the US & Japan
1994-5 Gallery Onetwentyeight group show, New York, NY

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Gail Robin Mitchell: hardened transport, 90 x 18 x 16", mixed media, 2018

 

My work is a playful narrative of found objects, paint, and mark making. For the past number of years I have explored movement, translucency, and what I call evidence (wax rubbings of textures, letters, numbers, etc). I think of these narratives not so much as literal stories, rather they are wordless dialogues amongst historied objects with lines (drawn or physical) and paint serving as intermediaries. Nothing is ever not considered, particularly the surfaces Ichoose to work upon. The weight of various elements, along with their other characteristics, allows me to explore and exploit them....in the process creating uncomfortable, but to me perfectly logical, relationships between things.

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Gail Robin Mitchell: wired fragments, 12 x 3.5", mixed media, 2017