GARRY MITCHELL, ARTIST
23 Baston Road,North Yarmouth, ME 04097,207-829-9392
EDUCATION
1982 M.F.A., Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
1978 B.F.A., University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
1997-2004 Visiting Assistant Professor, Art Dept, Colby College, Waterville, ME
1997-2005 1979-2000 Freelance installation/conservation picture framing/restoration.
Jobs include work for Colby College, Tucson Museum of Art; Hudson D. Walker Gallery; and, in New York, John Weber, Damon Brandt, and C.D.S. Galleries
1994-2000 Assistant to the President, Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY
2000 Curator, Six Upstate Artists: Yaddo Centennial Exhibition, Saratoga Springs Art Center, Saratoga Springs, NY
Instructor, Maine College of Art, Portland, ME
1990-1993 Faculty, Tucson Museum of Art School, Tucson, AZ
1986-1988 Visual Arts Program Coord., Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA
1982-1983 Assistant Professor, Pratt Institute, New York City, NY
Instructor in Drawing, Metropolitan Corrections Center (federal holding prison), New York City, NY
1979-1980 Adjunct Faculty, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI
AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
1997 Juror's Award, New American Talent, Texas Fine Art Association. Robert Storr, juror.
1995 Maryland State Arts Council, Individual Artists Grant
Esteban Vincente Endowed Fellowship, Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY
1993 Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY, Fellowship
1992 Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY, Fellowship
1991 Arizona Commissions on the Arts, Artists' Grant
Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY, Fellowship
1985 Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA, Fellowship
1984 Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA, Fellowship
Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY, Fellowship
1983 The Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, NY, Artist-in-Residence,
1982 The Helena Wurlitzer Foundation, Taos, NM, Grant
Edward Albee Foundation, New York City, NY, Artist-in-Residence
Biography
2003 Sarah Morneau, "Alluding to Notation," Portland Phoenix, 4/18/03
Cover, Micahel Tomasella, Constructing a Language (Harvard Univ Press)
2002 Cover, Amartya Sen, Freedom and Justice (Harvard University Press)
2001 New American Painting, Winter issue
Philip Isaacson,"Tension Intensifies Impact of Mitchell's Colorful
Paintings, Maine Sunday Telegram, 3/18/2001
Autumn Phillips, "How Much is Art a Mirror of the Artist" Brunswick Times Record, 3/1/2001
2000 "Six Abstract Painters," Karen McCready Fine Art, The New York Times
Cover, Ploughshares Magazine, Fall 2000
"Yaddo's Friendships in Arcadia," Glen Falls Journal
1998 Portland Museum of Art Biennial, Catalog
Arts Etc, Annual AIDS Benefit Catalog
Robert Storr,"Essay on the New American Talent," Arts News
1997 Robert Storr, "New American Talent 13," Catalog
"New American Talent Award Recipients Chosen," New Art Quarterly
Suzanne Akhtar,"Paintings Are In Again," Star Telegram, Fort Worth, TX
1995 Mike Guilliano,"Biennial--School 33, Baltimore City Paper
John Dorsey,"Biennial--School 33," Baltimore Sun
1994 Mike Guilliano, "Spring Juried Show," Baltimore City Paper
Alice Yang, Curator, Alternative Museum, New York, Essay, Annual Juried Exhibition, Catalog, School 33 Art Center, Baltimore, MD
1993 Fine Arts Work Center: 25th Anniversary, Catalog
Mike Guilliano, "Happily, School 33 Artists Emerge," Baltimore Sun
1992 "Arizona Illustrated," KUAT-TV, Tucson, Interview
Margaret Regan, "Peculiarly American," Tucson Weekly
1990 Cindy Nickerson, "Abstract Paintings in Provincetown," Cape Cod Times
Ann Wilson Lloyd, "Garry Mitchell Paints, " Cape Cod Art and Antiques
1989 Artist's Statement and Reproduction, Provincetown Arts, V. 3
Contemporary Provincetown, Provincetown Art Assoc and Museum, Catalog
1988 John Dorsey, "Portrait of an Artist in Transition," Baltimore Sun
1987 "New Talent at Alpha Gallery," The Boston Globe
1986 "Paintings: Garry Mitchell," Baltimore News American
Visual Fellows from the Fine Arts Work Center, Catalog
1985 Visual Fellows from the Fine Arts Work Center, Catalog
Charles Guilliano, "Recent Acquisitions: Provincetown Art Association, Art New England