Colorful abstract oil & mixed media by Katherine Mitchell (b.1944-)

w/ Albright-Knox Art Gallery label on verso

Art Sz: 23 1/2"H x 17 3/4"W

Frame Sz: 29 1/2"H x 23 3/4"W

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Katherine Mitchell was born inMemphis, Tennessee, in 1944. She received her artist education inAtlanta, Georgia, first at theAtlanta College of Art, where she received aBFAdegree (1968), then atGeorgia State University, where she received anMFAdegree (1977). She also attended theTyler School of ArtinRomein 1968. She spent her career in Atlanta, where she continues to reside.

Painting career

A proponent ofminimalism, Mitchell's geometric drawings and paintings are meditative and seek to provide the viewer with a spiritual experience.She has participated in over 100 group and twenty solo exhibitions including those at theMuseum of Contemporary Art of Georgia,Atlanta Contemporary Art Center,Galerie Stil und Bruch, Berlin, Germany and the Factory, Kunsthalle, Krems, Austria. She lectured in drawing and painting atEmory Universityfrom 1980 until her retirement in 2009.Mitchell'sVariations on a Theme of Modules(1995-2000), is a mural made of 15,000 square feet of ceramic tile in the Sandy Springs station of the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA).Embedded in the walls of the underground station, the geometrictesseraecreate visual columns upon the station's structural columns. Her artwork often makes use of an architectural vocabulary to explore psychological space, depicting vaults, stairs, andzigguratsin her paintings and drawings.

Mitchell works abstractly in drawing and painting in various media, and has exhibited in museums and galleries, both nationally and abroad, including The American Academy and Institute of Arts & Letters in New York, 1979, and theNational Museum of Women in the Artsin Washington, D. C., 1996.