Group Show at the Woodmere Museum

Also in February is the opening of a group show at the Woodmere Museum that includes a recent woodblock print. The exhibition will be up from February 17th until April 22nd, and there will be an open house on Saturday, February 25th, between 1 and 4pm.
(above image by Murray Dessner)

Elemental: Nature as Language in the Works of Philadelphia Artists
Antonelli I and II Galleries, Corridor Gallery, and Schnader Gallery

Elemental brings together works by Philadelphia artists for whom nature is an inspiration. Elegant, minimal, controlled, and sometimes austere, the works of art in the exhibition offer a variety of potent evocations of the natural world. Artists include Edna Andrade, Steven Baris, Helen Bershad, Yvonne Pacanovsky Bobrowicz, Astrid Bowlby, Frank Bramblett, Diane Burko, Thomas Chimes, Michael Ciervo, Murray Dessner, Stephen Estock, Kevin Finklea, John Formicola, Neysa Grassi, Ana B. Hernandez, Charles Kaprelian, Elaine Kurtz, Samantha Mitchell, Elizabeth Osborne, Keith Ragone, Warren Rohrer, Kevin Strickland, and Dina Wind.

Solo Exhibition in February

This month I am delighted to have a solo show at the Grizzly Grizzly Gallery in Philadelphia, on the 2nd floor of the Chinatown warehouse where Tiger Strikes Asteroid and Vox Populi also reside. Below is the press release, please join me for the show's opening on Friday, February 3rd, between 6 and 10pm.







Totems and Topographies: Samantha Mitchell


Grizzly Grizzly is pleased to present Totems and Topographies, a solo exhibition of work by Samantha Mitchell, the winner of our viewer’s choice award during Other Possible Titles. This exhibition features works on paper that investigate the inherent chaos and order within natural structures, combining precise pen and ink drawing with spontaneous watercolor washes.

Interested in ideas of geological change and destruction, Mitchell draws inspiration from the striated rocks of the Utah desert and driftwood from the shores of Lake Michigan for this elegant body of work. Using direct observation, photographic devices, and scientific analysis, Samantha Mitchell activates the history of inert specimens by finding the intricate patterns of order within. She is ultimately interested in the tension of organic formation; in her own words, “we witness both revelation and destruction, formation and deconstruction through the agents of time, leaving the dismembered, altered remains of a once cohesive structure that lend themselves to this alternate order."

Samantha Mitchell comes to Grizzly Grizzly after participating in our first call-for-entries group exhibition in November 2011, Other Possible Titles. Throughout the duration of this show, Grizzly Grizzly asked the audience to vote on their favorite piece in the exhibition with the winner receiving a solo show. Over the course of this month-long exhibition, over 900 people cast their vote, choosing Samantha Mitchell for this exciting exhibition.

About the artist: Samantha Mitchell has exhibited her work at the Woodmere Art Museum and the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, and internationally in Tel Aviv and Berlin. She is a current MFA candidate at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 2012.

The artist will be in attendance during the February 3rd opening reception from 6-10PM.

“Totems and Topographies: Samantha Mitchell”
February 3 – 25, 2012
First Friday Opening, February 3, 6-10pm
Grizzly Grizzly, 319 North 11th Street, 2nd Floor
Philadelphia, PA
Hours: Saturday and Sundays, 2-6PM
www.grizzlygrizzly.com