By Andrew Lawrence Gerri Mitchell’s paintings evoke strong and complex emotions while seeming to remain calmly neutral themselves. An abstract style that asks and answers questions related to space, depth, light, shadow, and especially texture, pushes the viewer to the very edge of a recognizable subject. But just when one thinks they’ve arrived on a shoreline or at the foot of a grove of mighty trees, the ghosts disappear, and one finds their feet somehow firmly planted in a state of disorientation. Although the works seem to exist in a liminal space, defined by their relative position between two points that are known and recognized, this is an illusion. The worlds that Mitchell’s works create are not ephemeral at all, they are stable and can be understood on their own terms.
97
Made with FlippingBook - PDF hosting