John Mitchell | Birthday Party
September 7 ‒ October 13, 2018
Planthouse is pleased to present John Mitchell's Birthday Party, a solo exhibition of portrait paintings.
John Mitchell paints from direct observation. A painting can take between three hours and three years to for him complete. His method centers around the changes that happen in a person’s appearance over the passage of time. A sitter assumes a new position and the shift is recorded in the painting. A ring is lost and it is painted out. His works are reflections of the time he spends looking at, painting and being with each sitter.
John Mitchell (b. 1971) was born in Illinois and now lives and works in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Mitchell received a BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1995 and an MFA from Yale University in 1999. His first one-person exhibitions in NYC were at Alexandre De Folin Gallery in 1999 and RIVA Gallery in 2003. Since then, Mitchell has been actively exhibiting in and out of New York City. In 2015, Mitchell was awarded an Art Symposium Residency at Austevoll Kunstforening, Austevoll, Norway; in 2016 attended the Emerson Landing Residency in Wye Mills, Maryland. Among others, Mitchell’s work has been reviewed by John Yau for Hyperallergic and Karen Wilkin for The Hudson Review.
