SMOKE-Mitchell

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Denni s Lee Mi t che l l

Dennis Lee Mitchell lives and works in Washington, D.C. and is a 2016-2017 recipient of a Pollock/Krasner Foundation Grant. His recent works are smoke drawings on paper, beautiful mandalas that resemble organic forms like large- petaled flowers and spiral shells. Mitchell’s work is in the permanent collection of the Illinois State Art Museum, Chicago, the Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City and the Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam. I draw with smoke as a way to render images of our mutability. The result is a symbolic condensation of beginning and end: apotheosizing the smoke. Smoke is one of the most ephemeral of all materials. Even when it resides on a sheet of paper, it seems to do so momentarily as if it is in a transformational act. Dennis Lee Mitchell

Cover: UNTITLED (21.5) 2018

Smoke on Paper 34 1/4 x 34 inches

SMOKE Dennis Lee Mitchell

July 28 - September 8, 2018

625 South Sharon Amity Road Charlotte, NC 28211 704.365.3000 gallery@jeraldmelberg.com www.jeraldmelberg.com

UNTITLED (21.5) 2018 Smoke on Paper 34 1/4 x 34 inches JMG18944

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UNTITLED (11.2) 2018 Smoke on Paper 38 x 38 inches JMG18945

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UNTITLED (28.2) 2018 Smoke on Paper 46 1/4 x 46 inches JMG18948

UNTITLED (34.5) 2018 Smoke on Paper 40 1/2 x 40 1/2 inches JMG18946

INFINITE 2018 Smoke on Paper 12 x 12 inches JMG18937

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INFINITE 2018 Smoke on Paper 12 x 12 inches JMG18942

625 South Sharon Amity Road Charlotte, NC 28211 704.365.3000 gallery@jeraldmelberg.com www.jeraldmelberg.com