SAM MITCHELL HIPS
, 28 MAY - 22 JUNE 2013
Bartley Company Art is pleased to present a new exhibition by Auckland artist Sam Mitchell - her first in our gallery and her first in Wellington for a few years. The show comprises her signature paintings on perspex -- her "portraits from the inside out" - and a series of watercolours on found book paper.
In 2010 Sam was the Paramount winner of the Wallace Trust Art Award which led to her spending six months in New York in 2011 on a residency at New York's ISCP (International Studio & Curatorial Program). This experience continues to play out in her work with the new 'portraits' in this exhibition exploring the hipster culture that was so prevalent in Williamsburg where she was based during her residency. 'Hips' takes a light hearted and subversive look at style, at markers of identity and how popular culture internalises and surfaces in the individual psyche. Her medium, with its characteristic flat surface interacts with the ideas at play in her work reinforcing the tension between the veneer of the outer character and his or her suggested inner life.
As TJ McNamara has written: Sam Mitchell's work is sensational but never comfortable.
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 | Sam Mitchell Sofia, 2013 acrylic on perspex, 770 x 470 mm |
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 | Sam Mitchell Jacob, 2013 acrylic on perspex, 770 x 470 mm |
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 | Sam Mitchell Nick, 2013 acrylic on perspex, 770 x 470 mm |
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 | Sam Mitchell Tiffany, 2013 acrylic on perspex, 770 x 470 mm |
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 | Sam Mitchell Jeer, 2013 acrylic on perspex, 400 x 300 mm |
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 | Sam Mitchell Bloom, 2013 acrylic on perspex, 400 x 300 mm |
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 | Sam Mitchell Scoffer, 2013 acrylic on perspex, 400 x 300 mm |
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 | Sam Mitchell Entitlement, 2013 acrylic on perspex, 400 x 300 mm |
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 | Sam Mitchell Belittle, 2013 acrylic on perspex, 400 x 300 mm |
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 | Sam Mitchell Anne of the Island, 2013 watercolour on paper, 148 x 210 mm |
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 | Sam Mitchell Beard, 2013 watercolour on paper, 148 x 210 mm |
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 | Sam Mitchell Beauty Myth, 2013 watercolour on paper, 148 x 210 mm |
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 | Sam Mitchell Bite, 2013 watercolour on paper, 148 x 210 mm |
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 | Sam Mitchell Blowout, 2013 watercolour on paper, 148 x 210 mm |
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 | Sam Mitchell Chuck, 2013 watercolour on paper, 148 x 210 mm |
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 | Sam Mitchell Cloak without dagger, 2013 watercolour on paper, 148 x 210 mm |
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 | Sam Mitchell Close, 2013 watercolour on paper, 148 x 210 mm |
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 | Sam Mitchell Cringe, 2013 watercolour on paper, 148 x 210 mm |
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 | Sam Mitchell Dazed, 2013 watercolour on paper, 148 x 210 mm |
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 | Sam Mitchell An Evening in, 2013 watercolour on paper, 148 x 210 mm |
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 | Sam Mitchell Fountain, 2013 watercolour on paper, 148 x 210 mm |
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 | Sam Mitchell Gal's night out, 2013 watercolour on paper, 148 x 210 mm |
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 | Sam Mitchell Grasp, 2013 watercolour on paper, 148 x 210 mm |
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 | Sam Mitchell Idealised, 2013 watercolour on paper, 148 x 210 mm |
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 | Sam Mitchell Ladies of the night, 2013 watercolour on paper, 148 x 210 mm |
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 | Sam Mitchell Man looking right, 2013 watercolour on paper, 148 x 210 mm |
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 | Sam Mitchell Meeting, 2013 watercolour on paper, 148 x 210 mm |
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 | Sam Mitchell Nag, 2013 watercolour on paper, 148 x 210 mm |
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 | Sam Mitchell The Pillow Fight, 2013 watercolour on paper, 148 x 210 mm |
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 | Sam Mitchell Private View, 2013 watercolour on paper, 148 x 210 mm |
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 | Sam Mitchell Push, 2013 watercolour on paper, 148 x 210 mm |
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 | Sam Mitchell Rebecca, 2013 watercolour on paper, 148 x 210 mm |
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 | Sam Mitchell Recline, 2013 watercolour on paper, 148 x 210 mm |
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 | Sam Mitchell Score, 2013 watercolour on paper, 148 x 210 mm |
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 | Sam Mitchell Shocked, 2013 watercolour on paper, 148 x 210 mm |
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 | Sam Mitchell Smile, 2013 watercolour on paper, 148 x 210 mm |
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 | Sam Mitchell Spooky, 2013 watercolour on paper, 148 x 210 mm |
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 | Sam Mitchell To my sister, 2013 watercolour on paper, 148 x 210 mm |
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 | Sam Mitchell Women glare, 2013 watercolour on paper, 148 x 210 mm |
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