John Joseph Mitchell's paintings consider subject matter and interiority. Specifically, the sense that one's vision is figured by what we see, how we see, and how we think about the process of our own observation. "I like looking at things," John Joseph Mitchell comments. “The painters I like all seem deeply connected to their particular world and looking at it. That’s what I try to do. I look at the marshes, farms, woods, and the ocean and the houses, people, animals and things in them that surround me. I hope to express and elicit the emotional range of visual experience."
Mitchell's paintings provide quiet contemplation. We sense the stillness of space as it surrounds familiar objects. The works are aware of photography and linear perspective, but they don’t really build their world that way. Instead, John Joseph Mitchell finds the feeling - emotional, intellectual, physical - that exists between things, orienting us as viewers in the midst of these relations.
John Joseph MITCHELL (b. 1989, Somers Point, NJ) received his BFA from Rowan University (Glassboro, NJ) and his MFA from Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art (Philadelphia, PA). John Joseph Mitchell’s recent and upcoming solo and group exhibitions include, “41 Paintings of Summer and Fall,” and “A Cat in the Other Room” Philip Martin Gallery (Los Angeles, CA); Ingleby Gallery (Edinburgh, UK); Fleisher/Ollman (Philadelphia, PA); Andrew Edlin Gallery (New York, NY); Alzueta Gallery (Barcelona, Spain); Art at Kings Oaks (Newtown, PA); Gay Street Gallery (Washington, VA); Gravers Lane Gallery (Philadelphia, PA); Harper’s Books (East Hampton, NY); Alzueta Gallery (Barcelona, Spain); Galleri Magnus Karlsson (Gotland, SE); Wavelength Space (Chattanooga, TN); Kamihira (Philadelphia, PA); and Little Berlin (Philadelphia, PA). John Joseph Mitchell lives and works in Tuckahoe, NJ.
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