Donald Mitchell (DMi 625)

DONALD MITCHELL

Born 1951, San Francisco, California
Has practiced at Creative Growth since 1986

Donald Mitchell's figures are consistently depicted with a large round head with simplified facial features on top of a thick body with peg-like arms and legs. Sometimes they are stacked so densely they resemble totems, and other times only a face rises to the surface in a field of dense line work. Mitchell’s most recent work maintains the foundation of these anonymous figures, but has returned to large scale abstraction with late-career artist’s skill. Mitchell's work is included in the permanent collection of the Centre Pompidou and the Milwaukee Art Museum.