Three inspiring art exhibits featuring the work of Joan Mitchell are currently on view in New Orleans. The shows span Mitchell's career from the 1950's until her death in 1992 and feature the three major bodies of her work: paintings, works on paper, and prints. The venues are the New Orleans Museum of Art; Newcomb Art Gallery at Tulane University; and the Contemporary Arts Center.
If you like Abstract Expressionism, Mitchell's paintings, pastels, and prints will fascinate you. I personally love their intensity. But if you don't like Abstract Expressionism, explore her work anyway. Check out her color combinations, the rhythm of her lines, the smears, the smudges -- the vibrancy!
Paintings at the New Orleans Museum of Art
Untitled 1958, La Grande Vallee XVI, Pour Iva 1983
Works on Paper at the Newcomb Gallery, Tulane University
Untitled 1967, Untitled 1986
Prints at the Contemporary Arts Center
Sunflowers 1992, Champs (Black, Gray and Yellow) 1991-92
The gallery at Tulane University has a small but impressive selection of books for sale. My favorite was "Joan Mitchell Fremicourt Paintings 1960 - 1962". A concise essay by Klaus Kertess is accompanied by nineteen beautiful color plates. Go ahead and judge this book by its cover!
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