Joan Mitchell
Joan Mitchell
A preeminent American Abstract Expressionist painter, Joan Mitchell developed a gestural vocabulary and a mastery of color that were singular among her peers. She took a synesthetic approach to landscapes and figures alike, conceiving each gesture to be a translation of a feeling stored in memory. She sought, in her words, “to paint what [nature] leaves me with.” Born in Chicago in 1925, Mitchell attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and spent a fellowship year in France before moving to New York in 1949. There, she joined the exclusive Eight Street Club and was included in the famous 9thStreet Show in 1951, which marked the ascendency of Abstract Expressionism. By the end of the ’50s, she was regularly exhibiting at Eleanor Ward’s Stable Gallery. In 1955, Mitchell began living part-time in Paris, and in 1968 she settled in the village of Vétheuil, northwest of Paris, where she worked continuously until her death in 1992. For the duration of her five-decade career, her commitment to gestural abstraction was unwavering.
Mitchell’s first institutional solo exhibition was held in 1972 at the Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York. Subsequent museum presentations during her lifetime were held at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (1974, 1992); Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (1982); Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York (traveled to Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York; and La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, California; 1988–1989). In 2002, the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, organized a retrospective of Mitchell’s work, which traveled to Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas; and Des Moines Art Center, Iowa. In 2015, Joan Mitchell Retrospective: Her Life and Paintings was presented at Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria, and subsequently traveled to Museum Ludwig, Cologne.
Exhibitions
Selected Press
mookmeart | 3点钟的12只鹰 | 琼·米歇尔
June 18, 2021
Süddeutsche Zeitung | Zurück, aber anders
June 11, 2021
艺术中国 | 疫情之下,危机还是契机?2021香港巴塞尔实体展回归
May 31, 2021
artnet 资讯 | 全息技术与加密货币支付:今年的香港巴塞尔是否是“未来艺博会”的雏形?
May 31, 2021
Die Presse | Kunstwerte
May 29, 2021
CoBo Social | Art Basel Hong Kong Ends On A High Note, Have They Struck The Winning Formula?
May 26, 2021
Il Sole 24 Ore | Art Basel torna live a Hong Kong
May 25, 2021
artnet news | Price Check! Here’s What Sold at Art Basel Hong Kong 2021—and for How Much
May 25, 2021
Artsy | What Sold at Art Basel in Hong Kong 2021
May 24, 2021
Ocula | $20m Joan Mitchell Leads Sales at Art Basel in Hong Kong
May 21, 2021
Hong Kong Tatler | What Sold At Art Basel Hong Kong 2021
May 21, 2021
ART News | At Art Basel Hong Kong, Positive Energy and Strong Sales Prove Ascent of Asian Art Market
May 21, 2021
The Art Newspaper | 'It’s impossible to compare 2019 and 2021; it’s a completely different world': what has sold at Art Basel in Hong Kong
May 21, 2021
在艺App | 首日斩获3000万美金,谁是回归后的2021香港巴塞尔VIP日销售Top?
May 20, 2021
Ocula | Ocula 报告|2021 ABHK 巴塞尔艺术展香港展会 亮点作品
May 20, 2021
ART News | $20 M. Joan Mitchell Painting Sells During Art Basel Hong Kong’s Early Hours
May 20, 2021
The Art Newspaper China | ABHK 2021|巴塞尔香港回归,谁是市场主力军?多中心化的亚洲艺术格局正在形成
May 19, 2021
Hi艺术 | 梵高、莫奈之后,厉蔚阁带来了哪些市场热门艺术家?
May 6, 2021
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