A Devolving/Evolving Sketchbook By Paul Mitchell

A Devolving/Evolving Sketchbook By Paul Mitchell www. paulmitchellArt.com

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Improvisation IX, 55″x40″, watercolor, crayon, and colored pencil on paper, 2015

These paintings become seeing machines, considering time, entropy, mutation, and construction.  The series Improvisations pursues chance, risk, and reaction as the primary tools of abstract architecture.  The hope is that the relics of this process reveal the beautiful and tragic as integral. That the unmanageable, illogical, and meaningless actions of painting become significant and transcendent.  Connecting a few of the dots between all of those things that we don’t know that we know. Because hunting is not so much the heads we place on the wall.

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Improvisation III, Watercolor, gouache, crayon, and colored pencil on paper, 55″x40″, 2015.

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Improvisation VII, 55″x40″, watercolor, gauche, crayon, and colored pencil on  paper, Aug 2015.

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Salem2Salem Painting.  Watercolor, gauche, crayon, and colored pencil on paper, 55″x40″, Aug. 2015.

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Improvisation XII, 55″x40″, watercolor, gauche, crayon, colored pencil, and acrylic absorbant ground on paper, Aug 2015.  From Salem2Salem residency

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Improvisation VII, 55″x40″, watercolor, gauche, crayon, and colored pencil, August 2015.  More from my residency at SAW.

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Improvisation V, 55″x40″ ,Aug 2015, watercolor, crayon, colored pencil.  Painting made during my Salem2Salem artist residency at Salem Art Works.  

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Improvisation VIII, 55″x40″,Aug 2015, watercolor, gauche, acrylic absorbant ground, crayon, oils stick, colored pencil.  Painting from Salem2Salem at Salem Art Works.

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Improvisation XI, 55″x40″, watercolor, gauche, crayon, and colored pencil on paper.  More work from Salem2Salem at Salem Art Works

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Improvisation IV, 55″x40″, Aug 2015, Watercolor, crayon, and colored pencil on paper.   Executed during my residency Salem2Salem at Salem Art Works. Details below.

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Improvisation X, 55″x40″, Aug 2015, watercolor, gauche, crayon, and colored pencil on paper.  Executed during my residency Salem2Salem at Salem Art Works.  Details below.

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“Eclipses, Pixels, and Fountains”, archival inkjet print to be exhibited in the Black Earth Galleries Cut-Ups and Chroma Addicts

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Glitch Fucked Video with Amanda Schoofs 9/19/15 Milwaukee Noise Fest at the Borg Ward.  Video documentation by Landon Deaton

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Glitch Fucked video projection with Amanda Schoofs at the Milwaukee Noise Fest.  At the Borg Ward Saturday Night.

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Sketch for Structured Improvisation:  Patterns of Flight with Mauriah Kraker and Steve Schlei as part of Sensoria : Experiments in Time-Based Media and Performance at INOVA (Institute for Visual Arts).  Curated by Amanda Schoofs and myself.

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Mauriah Kraker and Steve Schlei as part of Sensoria : Experiments in Time-Based Media and Performance at INOVA (Institute for Visual Arts).  Curated by Amanda Schoofs and myself.

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Painting at Salem Art Works during my artist residency as part of Salem2Salem.