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News & ArtsMonday, March 16, 2009
Visual Art Jeffry Mitchell at Work
Posted by Jen Graves on Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 11:37 AM
I wrote briefly here about Jeffry Mitchell's loose, experimental, and totally refreshing new show in Tacoma, but I didn't have a chance before I left to post images I shot while he was installing.
It was 18 hours before the show opened and Mitchell was still making—spraypainting and cutting and hanging—the art. (Click to enlarge any image.)
This is a Ree Morton-esque empty frame with naked bulb (recycled from Sphinx) and skull flags flying.
This is the artist's kiosk for fellow artist Dan Webb.
And Mitchell with the "D" for Dan he's just cut out to go on the kiosk. (If you are tempted to mock this uncomplicated display of sweetness, it is because you do not yet know how completely loving Jeffry Mitchell is.)
Another skull and its shadow.
A closeup view of some classically Mitchellian woodland shadow play.
And a very weird object made of recycled plastic sheeting and cobbled-together pieces of plywood—the whole show is made of recycled materials—that involves an owl-bat creature casting a shadow on a chicken-cruciform-Hannibal-Lecter-victim-shape topped by another shadow of a moon, all festooned with pretty banners of cut paper.
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