John Mitchell
24 x 18 inches
Oil on linen
2015
$6,000
58 x 74 inches
Oil on linen
2017-18
$24,000
56 x 36 inches
Oil on linen
2016-17
$12,000
90 x 37 inches
Oil on linen
2016-18
$24,000
24 x 18 inches
Oil on canvas
2014-16
$6,000
36 x 28 inches
Oil on linen
2015-16
$8,000
56 x 40 inches
Oil on linen
2015-18
$12,000
36 x 28 inches
Oil on linen
2016-17
$8,000
56 x 40 inches
Oil on linen
2016-18
$12,000
30 x 24 inches
Oil on linen
2017-18
SOLD
Plate: 24 x 18 inches
Etching, scraping, and burnishing. Edition: 5
2018
$2,400 Framed
Plate: 24 x 18 inches
Etching and aquatint. Edition: 9
2016
$1,400 Framed
John Mitchell (b. 1971) was born in Illinois, and now lives and works in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Mitchell paints from direct observation. Sessions repeat at a set time week after week for as long as it takes to complete his project. 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 registered in the painting; if a ring is lost, it will be painted out. His works are reflections of his time spent looking at, painting and being with each person.
Mitchell received his BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1955, and his 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 NYC. In 2015, Mitchell was awarded an Art Symposium Residency, Austevoll Kunstforening, Austevoll, Norway and in 2016 attended the Emerson Landing Residency in Wye Mills, Maryland.