Curtis Mitchell
dal 14/3/2002 al 13/4/2002
Segnalato da
14/3/2002
Curtis Mitchell
Esso Gallery, New York
Curtis Mitchell presents here two new series of work entitled Meltdown and Photo Events. Both of these series use photographic paper in a 'non-traditional way' that goes from exposing them to pure blasts of light and showering them in a stream of acid or developing them with household chemicals. Both series are generated by the artist's interest in the notion of absence.
Jennifer Bacon and Filippo Fossati are pleased to announce the opening Friday, March 15, 2002 of the solo exhibition by CURTIS MITCHELL
"Since 1990, Mitchell has fabricated minimal-looking works that seemed to most critics to be deconstructing the ABC art of the 1960s until it cried uncle in some abject XYZ art. Mitchell busted up sheetrock, burned rugs, covered blocks of cement with black chewing gum, filled sidewalks grates with fake dirt and real glass: he dimpled large sheets of paper with running water, and laid out contact paper covered with glittering spreads of fake dirt. While all of this work was impersonally workmanlike, and marked by a jamming gesture, it did bear such a resemblance to minimalist negation that anything else it had to say was, perhaps understandably, muted by its precedent."
Robert Mahoney
Curtis Mitchell presents here two new series of work entitled Meltdown and Photo Events. Both of these series use photographic paper in a "non-traditional way" that goes from exposing them to pure blasts of light and showering them in a stream of acid or developing them with household chemicals. Both series are generated by the artist's interest in the notion of absence.
Curtis Mitchell's work has been recently exhibited at Esso Gallery, New York in the solo show After Van Eyck, Memling, Raffaello, Vermeer, Eakins, Van Gogh, Rockwell; other recent exhibitions include Curtis Mitchell, AC Projects, New York (with Fritz Welch), the Mexican Cultural Institute, New York, Bucknell Art Gallery, Lewisburg, PA.; Univ. Galleries, Illinois State University and Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD; Sei artisti americani (Six American Artists), Villa Buttino, Castiglione T.se (Italy).
His work is included in the collections of The Walker Museum, Minneapolis; The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA and The Lannon Foundation, Los Angeles, CA among others.
opening Friday, March 15
Hours: Tuesday thru Saturday, 11 am - 6 pm
Contact Information: Jennifer Bacon or Filippo Fossati
tel. (212) 560-9728 o fax (212) 560-9729
Image: Curtis Mitchell Meltdown (Detail), 2001
ESSO GALLERY
211 West 28th Street, New York NY 10001
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