April 5th -­ 26th
Opening First Friday April 5, 6:00–9:00pm
Gallery hours Sundays from 11:00am – 4:00pm or by appointment.

The works in this series by Erin Mitchell are both (neither) print and (nor) painting. On the surface, they suggest chimerical landscapes tethered by India ink, powdered graphite, and touches of acrylic, gouache, and watercolor paints. The intended effect is a push and pull of material textures against the mylar surface: blacks that start as flat and inaccessible, become velvety and deep, and then sublimate into clouds of soft charcoal and powdered graphite.

As we look at the work, Mitchell asks us to think about how private experience has changed in the amplified presence of media since 9/11: What does mean to inherit a time laced with a sterile, dissociated threat, while codified, certain information infiltrates and co-opts solitude? Feeling around our zeitgeist of too-personal anxiety, Erin works in a reversal of information, an acceptance of uncertainty and misinformation expressed with media and art fantasy.


Erin Mitchell is an emerging artist living in San Francisco, where she has exhibited at Southern Exposure and the Kala Art Institute. Since earning a BFA in Printmaking/Drawing from Washington University in St. Louis, Erin’s work has been selected for the 2011 Shanghai Youth Biennial and exhibitions juried by curators from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), the Art Institute of Chicago, the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, St. Louis Art Museum, and the International Print Center New York (IPCNY). Her work is also available for circulation and purchase through “Netflix for art” start-up TurningArt.com.