Tina Mitchell, Munson’s 2024–25 Artist-in-Residence, will celebrate the opening of her exhibition, “As above, so below,” from 3 to 5 p.m. Friday, March 7, at the Pratt Munson Gallery in the Munson Museum of Art. This event is free and open to the public, and light refreshments will be available. “As above, so below” will be on view through March 27.

“‘As above, so below” explores our foundational understanding of primary colors alongside architectural spaces both interior and exterior, real and imagined within a framework of childlike playfulness and material exploration by bringing together drawing, painting, fibers, craft, and installation.

 

Mitchell’s artistic practice is inspired by her passion for art education and experiences teaching art with many ages and institutions. Her artwork manipulates representations of space in order to explore their possibilities for expressing joy, excitement, or fear. There is an emphasis on the combination of sculpture and painting that blurs pictorial space with physical space and rejects predetermined structures through painting and application of color.

 

As part of her residency, Mitchell developed a 12-week fall course for Munson community artists in which she breaks down abstraction into a series of experiments and critical thinking influenced by painter and art theorist Wassily Kandinsky at the Bauhaus school. A second session of her new spring course for artists ages 10 to 14, “After-school Art Journal,” begins March 18. To register, visit munson.art/community-arts.

 

“Our Artists-in-Residence are involved in so many aspects of Munson during their nine-month stay in Utica; we ask a lot of them,” said Audrey Taylor, community arts and residency director.  “We are so excited to experience Tina’s playful and vibrant multimedia exhibition in the Pratt Munson Gallery.”

 

Mitchell holds an MFA from the School of Visual Arts in NYC and a BFA in Studio Arts from Syracuse University.

 

The 2024–25 Munson Artist-in-Residence program is made possible with the generous support of Sunithi S. Bajekal.

 

For more information about Mitchell’s exhibition, visit munson.art/tinamitchell. To learn more about Mitchell, visit tinamitchell.org.

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