Moe Mitchell
b 1935
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My imagery is abstract and often times uses additional representational and humanistic elements that deal with humankind and our surroundings, sociological problems, environmental challenges, and of course universal questions. I am a process artist, motivated by heart and mind always questioning those sociological or universal enigmatic questions dealing with the right and wrong of world culture. The ideas which drive my content may take on either formal or more spontaneous forms of arrangement. The work always endeavors to engage the viewer, hopefully in compassionate understanding, both through personal intent and aesthetic interaction. Interaction happens through an interplay of emotional color, abstract environments, personal symbols, metaphors, and/or carefully placed elements devised to challenge and interact within the whole of the work. It is precisely that interplay both intellectual and emotional that I endeavor to bring into visual reality. Visual art is an awesome universal language that can communicate to all people. It is my hope that contemporary artist through the purity of their intent, will work in the service of hunankind. To one day unite all peoples into one fraternal and universal understanding. May we all endeavor to contribute to that end. |
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Résumé
TEACHING
1974-84
Chairman of Fine Arts Department: Ringling School of Art and Design
Sarasota, Fl
1959-99
Instructor: Ringling School of Art and Design
Sarasota, Fl
Courses Taught: Advanced Painting, Figure, Portrait, Landscape Painting, Color and Design, Graphics Lab, Senior Seminar in Aesthetics, Watercolor Workshop, Collage Assemblage, Intermediate Drawing, and Conceptual Drawing.
Coursed Developed: Experimental Multi-Media Course Entitled "Incredible Phenomena".
Other Responsibilities: design of curricula; selection and supervision of eight instructors; supervision of approximately one hundred Fine Arts Major (Painting, Sculpture, Printmaking); instituted visiting artist programs, including such national figures as James Rosenquist, Duane Hansen, Jimmy Ernst among others; conducted extensive gallery and museum tours in New York City.
Directly responsible for instrumental accredited courses in Printmaking,
Sculpture, Aesthetics. Advanced History, Mixed Medium Course. Collage/Assemblage.
Instructor: John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art
Sarasota, Fl
Director: Hilton Leach School of Art, Sarasota, Fl
TELEVISION SHOW
2002 Host of "The Artist Eye"Manatee Educational Television, a month ideas and personal works of art, art dealers, galleries or community art interests.
AWARDS AND HONORS
1988 Best of Show: Park Chase Award, Florida Artist Group
Sarasota Visual Arts Center, Sarasota, Fl
1986 Reddi Arts Award, Florida Artist Group
Tampa, Fl
1984 Reddi Arts Award, Florida Artist Group
Winter Haven, Fl
1983 Third Prize, Glen Gallery Statewide Open Show
Sarasota, Fl
1982 Reddi Arts Award, Florida Artist Group
Boca Raton, Fl
1977 Best of Show: Jordan Marsh Award, Florida Artist Group
Miami Metropolitan Museum of Art, Miami, Fl
EXHIBITIONS
2002 Don't Sit in the Chair Show
Ringling School of Art and Design, Sarasota, Fl
ArtinBusiness-Sarasota Chamber of Commerce Art Task Force
Legg Mason, Sarasota, Fl
75th Sarasota Art Center Celebration Sarasota
Visual Arts Center, Sarasota, Fl
The Longboat Key Art Center "Jurors Show
Longboat Key, Fl
Keller-Williams Benefit Exhibition for SPARCC
The City Center of Sarasota, Sarasota, Fl
*2001 One-Person Exhibition: "Morris Mitchell's Art"
The Citrus Club, Orlando, Fl
2000 Invitational Group Show: "Definition, Destiny and Desire"
First Thursday-Alpha Contempo, The Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando,
2000 Two-Person Exhibition: "The First Show of Newfoundland Watercolors" AMI, Sarasota, Fl
*1999 One-Person Exhibition: Secrets - The Art of Morris Mitchell" Sarasota Visual Arts Center, Sarasota, Fl
1998 Two-Person Exhibition: Ringling School of Art & Design Faculty Fulton-Burt Gallery, Sarasota, Fl
*One-Person Exhibition: "The Creative Edge Presents Morris Mitchell" The Creative Edge Gallery, Bradenton, Fl
*1997 One-Person Exhibition: "Transformations"
Meza Fine Art International, Coral Gables ,Fl
Juried Group Show: Annual All Florida Exhibition"
Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, Fl
1995 Two-Person Exhibition: "X-Communion" Main Street Book Gallery, Sarasota, Fl
*1993 One-Person Exhibition: Morris Mitchell"
Manatee community College Fine Art Gallery, Bradenton, Fl
*1991 One-Person Exhibition: The Cutting Edge II"
Gallery Des Artiste, West Palm Beach, Fl
1989 Invitational Group Show: Florida Artist Group Annual Exhibition" Sarasota Visual Arts Center, Sarasota, Fl
"Invitational Group Show: Artist Choose Artist '89"
Arts On The Park Inc., Lakeland ,Fl
*1988One-Person Exhibition
Anderson-Marsh Galleries, St. Petersburg, Fl
*1987 One-Person Exhibition: "The Cutting Edge" Retrospective
Lee Scarfone Gallery, University of Tampa, Tampa, Fl
Invitational Group Show: "Invitational Florida Arts Artist Show"
Foster Harmon Gallery, Sarasota, Fl
1986 Invitational Group Show: "Invitational Florida Arts Artist Show" Foster Harmon Gallery, Sarasota, Fl
Invitational Group Show: "Florida Artist Group Annual Exhibition" Tampa, Fl
1985 Individual Group Show: "Invitational Florida Arts Artist Show" Foster Harmon Gallery, Sarasota, Fl
1984 +One-Person Exhibition
St. Peters Living Room Gallery, St. Peters Unitarian Church, New York, NY
Juried Group Show: "Second Annual Watercolor Competition"
Ridge Art Center, Winter Haven, Fl
1983 Invitational Group Show: "Invitational Florida Arts Artist Show" Foster Harmon Gallery, Sarasota, Fl
Group Juried Show: "Statewide Open Show"
Glen Gallery, Sarasota, Fl
Group Juried Show: "First Annual Watercolor Competition"
Ridge Art Center, Winter Haven, Fl
1982 Juried Group Show: "Tampa '82"
Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, Fl
Invitational Group Show: "Florida Artist Group Annual Exhibition" Boca Raton, Fl
1981 Invitational Group Show: "Invitational Florida Arts Artist Show" Foster Harmon Gallery, Sarasota, Fl
1980 Invitational Group Show
Hodgell-Hartman Gallery, Sarasota ,Fl
Invitational Group Show: "Four Sarasota Artists"
Polk County Museum, Lakeland, Fl
Invitational Group Show
Jacksonville Art Museum, Jacksonville, Fl
Invitational Group Show: "Invitational Florida Arts Artist Show"
Foster Harmon Gallery, Sarasota, Fl
*1979 One-Person Exhibition: "Moe Mitchell in Retrospect Paintings from 1958-1979"
Melvin Gallery, Florida Southern College, Lakeland, Fl
1977 Invitational Group Show: "All State Touring Show"
Foster Harmon Gallery, Ft. Myers, Fl
Invitational Group Show
Myers Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Invitational Group Show: "New Talent U.S.A. Show"
Alan Stone Gallery, New York, NY
Invitational Group Show: "Florida Artist Group Annual Exhibition"
Miami Metropolitan Museum of Art, Miami, Fl
1973 Invitational Group Show: "First Annual Exhibition of Faculty Artists
Division of Cultural Affairs, State Capitol, Tallahassee, Fl
1972-77 Juried Group Show: "Festival of States Exhibition"
St. Petersburg, Fl
1962-67 Juried Group Show: "Dixie Annual Drawing Exhibition"
Montgomery, Al
Invitational Group Show: "Twenty Florida Painters"
National tour