도널드 미첼 (b. 1951)
도널드 미첼은 캘리포니아주 오클랜드에 있는 크리에이티브 그로스 아트 센터 스튜디오에서 1986년부터 활발히 활동하고 있는 작가이다. 발달장애를 가지고 있음에도 불구하고 그만의 독창적인 표현기법과 주제에 대한 집요한 고찰은 많은 비평가로부터 찬사를 받았다.
보일듯 말듯한 캐릭터들이 서로 기대고 있는 모습과 그의 작업에서 서서히 드러나고 있는 이미지는 인간들이 서로 상호작용하고 있는 모습을 형상화한다. 그의 초기작업을 보면 형상들이 수많은 드로잉 흔적으로 가려져있는 것을 볼 수 있는데 시간이 지남에 따라 우연적이면서도 반복적인 패턴과 뚜렷한 인간형상들을 볼 수 있다.
도널드 미첼의 작품도록 ‘Donald Mitchell: Right Here Right Now’ (크리에이티브 그로스 센터 출판)은 저명한 미술 비평가와 큐레이터들(Tom di Maria, Lucienne Piery, Frank Maresca and Lyle Rexer, Colin Rhodes)의 공동작업으로 출판되었다.
도널드 미첼의 작품은 미주내에 많은 전시와 미디어에 소개되었을 뿐만아니라 저명한 박물관 콜렉션(밀워키 미술관(밀워키, 미국), 버클리 미술관(버클리, 미국), 아르브뤼 콜렉션(로잔, 스위스), 가빈 브라운 엔터프라이즈(뉴욕, 미국), 임파르 갤러리(파리, 프랑스), 예르바 부에나 아트 센터(산프란시스코, 미국) 및 레나 브랜스텐 갤러리(산프란시스코, 미국)에도 소장이 되어있다.
Donald Mitchell and his work epitomizes a purely authentic and personal engagement of creating as a lifelong investment in the exploration of mark making, intuition, and self-expression. Mitchell has been producing his drawings and paintings at the Creative Growth Art Center, a studio for artists with disabilities, in California since 1986.
It is intriguing to witness Mitchell’s radical development in art making over time, especially since he had shown no interest in creating before his program at the center. Mitchell’s initial works were covered with obsessive mark making and dark scribbles that obliterated any trace of an underlying image. However, the buried faces and figures gradually emerged over time and began to populate his canvases, softly voicing his personal story.
Mitchell’s prolific work and his mysterious world of figures has now become one of the most sought-out works and has been collected nationally and internationally at the Milwaukee Art Museum (Milwaukee), Berkeley Art Museum (Berkeley), Gavin Brown’s Enterprise (New York), Collection de L’Art Brut (Lausanne, Switzerland), Galerie Impaire (Paris), Rena Bransten Gallery (San Francisco) and numerous others.
text by Jina Choi
Donald Mitchel-Permanent exhibition @ WHNY Busan gallery
Donald Mitchel-Permanent exhibition @ WHNY Busan gallery
Donald Mitchel-Permanent exhibition @ WHNY Busan gallery
Donald Mitchel-Permanent exhibition @ WHNY Busan gallery
Donald Mitchel-Permanent exhibition @ WHNY Busan gallery
Donald Mitchel-Permanent exhibition @ WHNY Busan gallery
Donald Mitchel-Permanent exhibition @ WHNY Busan gallery
Donald Mitchel-Permanent exhibition @ WHNY Busan gallery
Donald Mitchel-Permanent exhibition @ WHNY Busan gallery
Donald Mitchel-Permanent exhibition @ WHNY Busan gallery
Donald Mitchel-Permanent exhibition @ WHNY Busan gallery
Donald Mitchel-Permanent exhibition @ WHNY Busan gallery
Donald Mitchel-Permanent exhibition @ WHNY Busan gallery
Donald Mitchel-Permanent exhibition @ WHNY Busan gallery
Donald Mitchel-Permanent exhibition @ WHNY Busan gallery
Donald Mitchel-Permanent exhibition @ WHNY Busan gallery
Donald Mitchell
Untitled, 1997
Tempera on cardboard
41 x 81 cm
DM 001
Donald Mitchell
Untitled, 1997
Tempera on cardboard
41 x 81 cm
DM 002
Donald Mitchell
Untitled, 1997
Tempera on cardboard
41 x 81 cm
DM 003
Donald Mitchell
Untitled, 1996
Ink on paper
46 x 61 cm
DM 009
Donald Mitchell
Untitled, 1995
Ink on paper
35.5 x 46 cm
DM 005
Donald Mitchell
Untitled, 1996
Ink on paper
35.5 x 46 cm
DM 006
Donald Mitchell
Untitled, 1997
Tempera on cardboard
48 x 53 cm
DM 004
Donald Mitchell
Untitled, 1998
Ink on paper
38 x 56 cm
DM 008
Donald Mitchell
Untitled, 1994
Ink on paper
46 x 63 cm
DM 010
Donald Mitchell
Untitled, 1995
Ink on paper
44.5 x 58 cm
DM 011
Donald Mitchell
Untitled, 1994
Ink on paper
33 x 41 cm
DM 012
Donald Mitchell
Untitled, 1994-96
Ink on paper
46 x 61 cm
DM 013
Donald Mitchell
Untitled, 1994-96
Ink on paper
47 x 61 cm
DM 014
Donald Mitchell
Untitled, 1998
Ink on paper
38 x 56 cm
DM 015
PUBLICATIONS
Selected
Collections
The Collection de l’Art Brut
Lausanne, in LaM in Villeneuve d’Ascq
The Museum of Everything
The collection abcd/Bruno Decharme
The collection of Claudia Röschl, Austria.
Selected
exhibitions
2020
Outsider Art Fair, New York
Monochromatic Minds, Jennifer Lauren Gallery, London
Inter-Avant-Garde, Roger Center for Fine Arts, Nebraska Wesleyan University, Lincoln
2019
Outsider Art Fair, New York
Outsider Art Fair, Paris
CE x CG x NIAD, Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco
2018
Outsider Art Fair, Paris
New Art Dealers Alliance Fair, New York
Outsider Art Fair, New York
D’Dessin Art Fair, Paris
Visual Oasis: Works from Creative Growth, Carson City
2017
D’Dessin Paris Contemporary Drawing Fair, Paris
Outsider Art Fair, New York
2016
Duvel Moortgat Fund, MADmusée Liège, Belgium
New Art Dealers Alliance Fair, Miami
American Dream, Direct Art Gallery, Dusseldorf, Germany
Outsider Art Fair, Paris
Large Drawings, Home, 836M, San Francisco, CA
Casale Monferrato Castle, Italy
Art Fair Tokyo, Tokyo Art Osaka, Osaka
D’Dessin Paris Contemporary Drawing Fair, Paris
2015
Vis-à-vis, Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York, curated by Michael Mahalchick
Outsider Art Fair, New York
D’Dessin Paris Contemporary Drawing Fair, Paris
Art Fair Tokyo, Tokyo
Extra Celestial, Crosstown Art, Memphis
2014
Mental Contours III. – Lines of Force, Artinbox Gallery, Prague
Outsider Art Fair, Paris
Outsider Art Fair, New York
D’Dessin Paris Contemporary Drawing Fair, Paris
2013
Outsider Art Fair, New York
Creative Growth, Galerie Art Cru, Berlin
Creative Growth, Park Life Gallery, San Francisco
D’Dessin Paris Contemporary Drawing Fair, Paris
Almost Home, Diego Rivera Gallery (SFAI), San Francisco
Margins to Mainstream: Contemporary Artists with Disabilities, Sonoma County Museum, Santa Rosa
Outsider Artists, Oakland Museum of California at the Oakland International Airport, Oakland, curated by Philip Linhares
2012
Cutlog Art Fair, Paris
Outsider Art Fair, New York
Independent Art Fair, New York
Frieze Art Fair, New York
D’Dessin Paris Contemporary Drawing Fair, Paris
Creative Growth, Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York, curated by Amie Scally
Inside Out, Galleri NordNorge, Harstad, Norway
Different and Special, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Korea
John Hiltunen +1, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, curated by Matthew Higgs
2011
Revealed, Galerie Drylewicz, Paris
New Art Dealers Association Fair, Miami
Insider/Outsider Art: Selections from Bay Area Collections, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek
Exhibition #4, Museum of Everything, London
McGuire Furniture, San Francisco and New York
Outsider Art Fair, New York
Manhattan House, New York
2010
Visions of Paradise, Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, Sonoma
Georg Jensen, New York
Outsider Art Fair, New York
In The House, MadMusée, Belgium
2009
Galerie Giti Nourbakhsch, Berlin
Revealing the Human, Arts Project, Melbourne
Again and Again, Galerie Impaire, Paris
Outsider Art Fair, New York
2008
Intuit Show of Folk and Outsider Art, Chicago
Bienal de Arte Contemporaneo Funcacion Once, Madrid
Queens Nails Annex, San Francisco, curated by Julio Morales
2007
Jack Hanley Gallery, Los Angeles
ABCD, Paris
Observer Event, New York
2006
Jack Hanley Gallery, Los Angeles
Berenberg Gallery, Boston
Visionary Output: Work by Creative Growth Artists, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco
Collection de l’Art Brut, Lausanne
Armory Art Fair, New York
Outsider Art Fair, New York
2005
New Art Dealers Association Fair, Miami
Intuit Fair of Folk and Outsider Art
White Columns, New York
Leon Borensztein and His Friends: A Look At Creative Growth Artists and Their Work, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, curated by René de Guzman and Tom di Maria
2004
Outsider Art Fair, New York
2003
Lucky Tackle Gallery, Oakland
2002
Southern Exposure, San Francisco
This project undertakes the motto of ‘Think Outside Borders’ ‘Think Outside the Box’ ‘Think into Action’.
워킹하우스뉴욕은 3가지 모토 (국경을 넘어선 사고; 틀을 깨는 사고; 표현하는 사고)를 가지고 프로젝트를 기획한다.
Art narrows the gap between countries. It minimizes language barriers and enables us to communicate qualitatively and share complex emotions. We are committed to using art as an outpost for carrying out critical conversations with the world by placing art in contexts that matter.
예술은 언어를 뛰어 넘는 커뮤니케이션의 수단이다. 상이한 문화와 관습에서도 통합적인 사고를 하게 하며 우리의 복합적인 감정을 공유할 수 있게 한다. 워킹하우스뉴욕은 이러한 예술을 통해 현대사회와 국경을 초월한 의미있는 소통을 추구한다.
We leverage art as a learning platform by giving diverse audiences of the globe a window to narratives that are either overlooked, little understood in mainstream conversations, or distorted in stereotypes and create commonality. We also intend to design programmatic initiatives and exhibition strategies to support the kind of inclusion championed by our campaigns.
예술은 고정관념의 틀을 깨고 그동안 간과되어 왔던 담론을 이끌어 낼 수 있는 교육 플랫폼을 형성한다. 워킹하우스뉴욕은 전 세계의 다양한 청중에게 예술을 통해 대화의 창을 제공함으로써 사고의 시각을 넓히는 창의적인 교육 프로그램을 만들어 나아가는데에 목표가 있다.
We collaborate with the art world to shed light on the complexity of the human experience and give a platform to which it can be seen and heard by endeavoring this artistic documentation to include in the international cultural network as well as in institutions as loudspeakers. By encouraging creative practices and connecting art to life, we strive to experience art in our life.
예술은 복합적이고 추상적인 개념을 물리적으로 구현해내고 그것을 통해 인간내면을 재조명할 수 있는 기회를 준다. 워킹하우스뉴욕은 적극적인 국제적 교류를 통해 해외문화의 접근성과 이해관계를 좁혀나가고 예술이 우리의 삶에 깊숙히 내재할 수 있도록 기획하고 실현하도록 지지한다.
