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What I did see was a very large white and blue painting by Joan Mitchell in her studio more than twenty years ago, and that is the one I am thinking of. To get closer to the actual experience of seeing the painting, I first confirm or revise some of my memories of visiting her at Vétheuil, of her strong personality, of my life in Paris.
Aug 14, 2024 · The New York–based Joan Mitchell Foundation on August 14 named fifteen recipients of its 2024 Joan Mitchell Fellowship. Each will receive an unrestricted $60,000 grant, to be disbursed over a five-year period, beginning with a $20,000 award this year, followed by the issuance of $10,000 annually for the next four years.
Long eclipsed by her male New York School peers, Mitchell drew on the legacies of the historical avant-gardes in unique ways and turned gestural abstraction to her own ends, creating a body of work anchored to human reality not only by the kinds of material traces that Fulton sees preserved in pigment, but also by complex explorations of embodied subjectivity and intersubjectivity, of moving through the world as a bounded form among other forms.
Jan 17, 2024 · The Joan Mitchell Foundation has revealed the names of the thirty-seven artists who will be participating in the organization’s artist-in-residence program at the Joan Mitchell Center in New Orleans. Sixteen of the artists hail from various points across the United States and Puerto Rico, while twenty-one are from New Orleans.
May 12, 2022 · The Joan Mitchell Foundation has named twenty-three artists who will be participating in the organization’s artist-in-residence program at the Joan Mitchell Center in New Orleans. Five New Orleans–based artists—Jose Cotto, Josiah Gagosian, Gabrielle Garcia Steib, Karla Rosas, and Summer White—were selected for this year’s residencies: They will join eighteen artists from across the nation who were chosen for the program over the past two years.
Aug 23, 2023 · The New York–based Joan Mitchell Foundation has revealed this year’s recipients of the Joan Mitchell Fellowship, which was established in 2021. Fifteen artists working in the fields of painting, sculpture, installation, and land art will each receive an unrestricted $60,000 grant, to be disbursed over a five-year span, beginning with a $20,000 award the first year, followed by the issuance of $10,000 annually for the next four years.
“Joan Mitchell Retrospective: Her Life and Paintings” is on view at the Museum Ludwig, Cologne, through Feb. 21. A contributing editor of Artforum, Katy Siegel is the inaugural Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw Endowed Chair in Modern American Art at Stony Brook University, the State University of New York, and the author, most recently, of “The Heroine Paint”: After Frankenthaler (Gagosian, 2015).
JOAN MITCHELL TOLD INTERVIEWER Yves Michaud in 1986, “I imagine a sort of scaffolding made of painting stretchers around a lot of colored chaos as an identity.” 1 The terms of Mitchell’s self-image are characteristic in that they point through the self to the work. Instead of a throwaway professional despair (or cosmic acedia at mid career), her “scaffolding” reflects the weathered pragmatism of an improviser who has seen into the heart of her method.
Joan Mitchell, George Went Swimming at Barnes Hole, but It Got Too Cold, 1957, oil on canvas, 87 3⁄4 ...
May 14, 2024 · The Joan Mitchell Foundation today announced Sarah Roberts as its inaugural senior director of curatorial affairs, beginning in June. Roberts arrives to the freshly created role from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, where she has worked since 2004, most recently as Andrew W. Mellon Curator and Head of Painting and Sculpture.
