JEFFRY MITCHELL                                                                                         

 

Education:       

1988                                   M.F.A., Printmaking, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia  

1980                 B. A., Painting, University of Dallas, Irving, Texas

 

Solo Exhibitions:

2004                                  A Rejected Proposal, Fred and Jock Gallery, Vancouver, B.C., Canada

Watercolors and Ceramic Sculpture, James Harris Gallery, Seattle

Recent Works, Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery, Portland, OR

2003                                  69 East Pender, Organized by Lee Plested from the Helen Pitt Gallery,

                                    Vancouver B.C., Canada

2002                 Recent Works, Elliott Brown Gallery, Seattle, WA

2001                                  Hanabuki, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

Diverseworks, Houston,TX

Domestic Furniture, Los Angeles, CA

2000                 Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery, Portland, OR

                        Smile, Elliott Brown Gallery, Seattle, WA

1999                 Solo Show curated by Roy McMakin, Domestic Furniture, Seattle, WA

                        In Response to This Room, Zeitgeist Coffee House, Seattle, WA

1997                 ESSO Gallery, New York, NY

                        The Tomb of Ree Morton, Elliot Brown Gallery, Seattle, WA

1996                                  Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery, Portland, OR

Esso Gallery, New York, NY

1995                 Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA (also 1994 and 1993)   

1994                 Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1992                 My Spirit, Workspace Gallery, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY

                        Pictures for Boys, Pulliam Deffenbaugh Nugent Gallery, Portland, OR

1991                 Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA.  (also 1990, 1989)

                        Jesus in a Crowd, Rena  Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA.

                        Life,  Kittredge Gallery, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA.

1990                 Documents Northwest, The Poncho Series, Seattle Art Museum  (catalog)

1987                 Recent Prints and Drawings, Pearl Fox Gallery, Melrose Park, PA

1986                 Opera in Voot, Virginia Inn, Seattle

1985                 Prints and Drawings, Watertown, Seattle

1984                 Large Paintings, Gallery Love Connection, Nagoya, Japan

                        Pottery, Maruei Department Store, Nagoya, Japan

 

Selected Group Exhibitions:

2004                                  To the Point: Drawings, State Gallery, Vancouver, B.C., Canada

North American Ceramic Sculpture NOW, Hand Workshop Art Center,

                                    Richmond, VA

2002                                  2nd World Ceramic Biennale, NOW & NOW: World Contemporary Ceramics,

            World Ceramic Center, Icheon City, South Korea

Cross Roads, Art From the Northwest, Curated by Michael Klein, COCA.

            Seattle, WA

2003                                  Portland Museum of Art, By Hand: American Drawings from the Permanent            Collection, Portland, OR

Seattle Collects 2002, Seattle Arts Commission, City of Seattle, City Space  

            Gallery, Seattle, WA.

 

 

Selected Group Exhibitions continued:

 

 

2001                                  Strike! Printmakers as Social Critics, Gallery of Contemporary Art, Lewis and

           Clark College, Portland, OR

                          Contemporary Prints and Works on Paper, Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery,          

                                    Portland, OR

2000                     Eccentric Forms and Structures, Microsoft, Redmond, WA

 

1999                                  NW Modern Art/Asian Affinities, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA

The View from Here: 100 Artists Mark the Centennial of Mt. Rainier, Seafirst

                                    Gallery, Seattle, WA

                        1999 Neddy Artist Fellowship Exhibition, Seafirst Gallery, Seattle, WA (catalog)

                        Scripta Manent, Esso Gallery, New York, NY

                        Fresh Flowers, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA

1998                 Group Show, Pulliam Deffenbaugh, Portland, OR 

                        Drawings & Prints, ESSO Gallery, NYC, NY

                        Summer Group Show, Elliott Brown Gallery, Seattle, WA

1997                 SAFECO Collects: Northwest Art 1976-1996, Selections from the corporate                                    collection, Jundt Museum, Gonzaga University, Spokane, WA          

Human References: Marks of the Artist: A Ten Year Retrospective Exhibition of the Seattle Artist' Program Collection, curated by Beth Sellars, Seattle Center                       Pavilion, Seattle Center, Seattle, WA

                        Drawing Invitational, Meyerson Newinski, Seattle WA

                        Traversing Territory, Part III, Expanding Dimensions in Printmaking, curated by                              Lois Allan, a collaboration between the Art Gym and PICA at Marylhurst                                   College, Marylhurst, OR

                        Ceramics, White Columns, New York, NY

                        Prints by 30 NW Artists, inaugural show and permanent collection of the

                                    Vancouver School of Arts and Academics, Vancouver, WA

1996                                  Fag-o-sites, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL

Jeffry Mitchell and Ken Kelly, Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery, Portland, OR

                        Thing, Deven Golden Fine Art, NYC, NY

                        Art Exchange Show: an (Alternative) Art Fair, New York, NY

1995                                  Plastic, curated by Nancy Doll, Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, Ma

La Jeune Graveure Contemporaine-Paris Biennial Exhibition, Salle de Fetes de      la Marie du Vieme Arrondissment, St. Germaine, France

Curatorial Eye of James Archer, Archer Gallery, Clark College, Vancouver, WA

SEX, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA

Garden of Delights, Tacoma Art Museum Winter Exhibition, Tacoma, WA

1994                                  Wunderkammer, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Stealth, curated by Sean Elwood, Seafirst Gallery, Seattle, WA

1993                                  Suburban Culture, curated by Terri Hopkins, Art Gym Marylhurst College,              Marylhurst, OR

Time Away: Prints from Centrum’s Artist in Residency Program, curated by Sean    Elwood, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA

The Art of Microsoft, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

 

 

 

 

Selected Group Exhibitions continued:

 

 

1992                 Paper, curated by Kiki Smith, Fawbush Gallery, New York

                        Works on Paper, Parkett/Mark Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.

                        On Paper/Recent Acquisitions, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA

                        IN FORMATion, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA

                        Seventeen, curated by Karen Caldicott and Barry Hilton, New York, NY

                        Painted Word/Written Image, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA

1991                                  View from The Edge, Index Gallery, Clark College, Vancouver, WA

Installation, Socrates Project, Long Island City, Queens, NY

 

1990                 Artwork for AIDS, Seattle Center Pavilion  (catalog)

                        From The Decade, The Print Club, Philadelphia.  Also 1988

                        Watercolor, Watercolor, Watercolor, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA.

                        Drawing Power, Western Gallery, Western Washington Univ., Bellingham, WA.

                        Bumbershoot, Seattle Center Pavilion, Seattle, WA

1989                 911 Contemporary Arts Window Installation, Seattle

                        A Rain of Talent: Umbrella Art, Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia: traveled to the                    American Crafts Museum, NY., and Wustum Museum of Fine Art, Racine, WI.

                        2-D, 3-D, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA

                        Made By Hand, Minneapolis College of Art and Design

                        Northwest Annual, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, curated by Nancy Spero and Leon Golub, Seattle, WA

1988                 Sum of the Parts, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA

1987                 Tyler Print Makers, William and Hobart College, Geneva, NY

                        Penrose Gallery, Philadelphia

                        Six from Cornish, Cornish Institute, Seattle

1986                 62nd Annual International Print Competition, The Print Club, Philadelphia

1985                 A Decade of Prints, Cornish Institute, Seattle

1984                 Gallery R, Seto, Japan

1983                                  Foreign Artists Working in Japan, Gallery R, Seto Japan

 

Teaching and Visiting Artist Positions:

2002-03                         Visiting Lecturer, Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, Vancouver, B.C.,   C         Canada

1999-2002         Visiting Lecturer, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO

1997                                  Visiting Artist, Montana State University, Missoula, MT

Artist in Residence, Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, WA (also 1992, 93, 94, 95, 97)

1997                 Visiting Artist, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI       

1994                 Guest lecturer and critic, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

1992                                  Visiting Artist, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA

1993, 94, 95, 97Visiting Lecturer, University of Washington School of Art, Seattle, WA

                                    (Ceramics, Drawing, Printmaking)

1993                                  Visiting Artist, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA

1989                                   Visiting Artist, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA

1989                 Instructor, Cornish School of the Arts, Seattle, WA (Drawing, Printmaking)

 

Selected Collections:

                        Bailey-Boushay House, AIDS Housing of Washington, Seattle

                        Bonneville  Power Administration, Portland, OR.

                        Cheney Cowles Museum, Spokane, WA

                        City of Tacoma, Department of Cultural Resources, WA

                        Davis Wright Tremaine Attorneys, Seattle, WA

                        Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

                        Hillis Clark Martin and Peterson Attorneys, Seattle, WA

                        Microsoft, Redmond, WA

                        Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

                        Neuberger and Berman, New York, NY

                        New York Public Library, New York,  NY

                        Pacific First Federal Savings Bank, Seattle

                        Perkins Coie, Seattle, WA

                        Philadelphia Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA

                        Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR

                        SAFECO Insurance Company, Seattle

                        Saintsbury Winery, Napa, CA.

                        Seattle Art Museum

                        Seattle Arts Commission

                        Surrogate Hostess, Seattle

                        Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma

                        The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii

                        University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle

                        Washington State Arts Commission, Olympia, WA

                        Washington State University, Pullman, WA

 

Awards and Grants:

1999                                  Neddy Artist Fellowship Award, Behnke Foundation, Seattle, WA

1994                 Visual Art Fellowship, Washington State Artist Trust

1991                                  Northwest Major Works Purchase Award, Seattle Arts Commission, Seattle, WA

1990                                   Socrates Sculpture Park (Installation), Long Island City, New York

                        Residency, Centrum  Foundation, Port Townsend, WA)

                        Seattle  Artists 1989 Artists Project, Seattle Arts Commission

                        Art Matters Inc., Grant, New York

 

Publications:

1997                 Contemporary Printmaking in the Northwest, by Lois Allan, Craftsman House        

1994                                  Contemporary Art in the Northwest by Lois Allan, Craftsman House

Art in America, May, 1994, “Jeffry Mitchell at Greg Kucera” by Matthew Kangas