4 - 6 PM
Robin Mitchell's exhibition of recent gouache paintings, entitled
Moment to Moment, continues a
line of visual thinking that has progressed through her previous three
exhibitions at Craig Krull
Gallery. In Code Paintings, her first exhibit with the gallery in 2007,
Mitchell composed intricate
arrangements of small marks and brushstrokes that were suggestive of
landscapes and architectural
cross sections. In her next two shows, working like a zoom lens, she
moved progressively deeper
into her compositions. The once tiny dots and dashes enlarged into more
developed shapes which,
according to Constance Mallinson, "recalled forms from Egyptian
hieroglyphics and stylized decorative
borders, Eastern Mandalas, early Modernist abstraction or popular 50's
design motifs." In Mitchell's
recent paintings, her brilliantly colored starbursts, orbs and linear
overlays suggest that she is moving
even deeper into what appear to be the molecular structures of her
imagery. Like Zeno's paradox,
one senses that Mitchell may continue to take a half step closer to her
subject in an infinite exploration
of form and color.
