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Article: Robin Mitchell at Jancar.(LOS ANGELES)
- Article from:
- Art in America
- Article date:
- September 1, 2007
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In this group of small gouaches on paper done over the last six years, Robin Mitchell draws from a lexicon of abstracted florals, vines, branches, sunbursts, buds, pods, microscopic life, ganglia and spermatozoa, all afloat on washy grounds of color. Compositions are either centrally organized in vortices to create pulsing moire or spinning effects, or dynamically lined up in vertical or horizontal patterns. The shapes are archetypal and recall forms from Egyptian hieroglyphics and stylized decorative borders, Eastern mandalas, early modernist abstraction or popular 1950s design motifs. With the chromatics high-keyed and close-valued--like fluorescent spring greens and ...
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