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“Mike Mitchell is an artist in Los Angeles. He has a wife Lauren, one normal cat, one cross-eyed cat, one blind cat, and a dog who isn’t normal, but does have great vision. He thinks high fives are pretty cool and he likes to spend as much time writing bio’s as it took to read this.” – that is the description you can find on his official website, www.sirmikeofmitchell.com.
But what exactly does this Mike Mitchell do that he manages to make an impression any place in this world he displays his works?
Well, Mitchell is one of the most popular artists out there today. He first gained national attention with his “I’m With Coco” poster for Conan O’Brien (which went viral on the internet) and has continued to do beautiful work putting a unique spin on popular culture. Last year, his Just Like Us exhibit at Gallery 1988 in Los Angeles started a collectors craze and now he is back for his second show. This one takes popular, and some not-so-popular, movie characters and provides them each with a detailed, classy portrait.
I’m With Coco Poster
At 21 he headed to Chicago for art school, which was fairly life altering. After that he lived in Madison, WI for 18 months working at Raven Software, then moved to Los Angeles in 2008 for a job at a small video game studio, and shortly after got into the iam8bit exhibit, which was a huge deal for him as an artist. By the time this show arrived, he had quit his salary job („which was sucking the life out of me” – he mentions) and began to really concentrate on gallery shows and freelance.
Regarding this MONDO Gallery show, he explained that he had always enjoyed doing portraits, and had done a few similar ones over the years. It was definitely a departure from the bulk of what he had been doing recently, which was mostly done to take a bit of a break from painting. The itch to do something a little more ambitious and work-intensive was starting to build, plus he felt like mixing it up a bit, and was able to accomplish that over the past 5 months.
But why these certain characters? Well, he tried to pick characters that are more under appreciated in pop culture art. It is important to him that this show feels fresh and unique, and believes his choices are helping to achieve that. The movies he chose from span all genres, but the unifying theme are characters that made a strong impression on him, regardless of their screen time. There are a few characters that aren’t even in their respected movies for more than 5 minutes, but they are a big reason to watch those movies. Sadly, he still has quite a long list of characters that he wasn’t able to get to.
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Poster Title: “WOOPSY DAISY!”
Size: 12×16″
Edition Size: 70
The exhibit of the above works will end March 25th, at the Mondo Gallery, in Austin Texas.
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