“Samantha Mitchell: Land Forms” Gallery Talk

Join Samantha Mitchell in the Harrison Gallery, University Commons, November 12, 2023 from 1 – 3:00 PM  for an informal discussion of her current solo exhibition “Land Forms,” on display through December 3, 2023. The artist will be on hand to greet visitors and answer questions concerning this body of work which she has been developing over the past seven years. Light refreshments will be provided. The event is free and open to the public.

“My work mediates impulses for order and chaos, creating a unified habitat for both. This compulsion comes from witnessing change – in memory, in the landscape, in objects, in perception – through organic processes, that are both generative and destructive. Working in the language of small, consistent marks, my process feels like chipping away, working slowly towards a larger whole.”

– Samantha Mitchell

“Land Forms” consists of works on paper and panel depicting Mitchell’s recollections of landforms she has experienced and documented through a deliberate, meditative buildup of small repetitive marks using ink, watercolor, graphite, and colored pencil.

Central to the artist’s practice is the idea that the process of remembering is a creative act. The gorges, canyons, buttes, and horizons that appear repeatedly in these works are not reproductions of the landscapes that Mitchell has seen, but of the activity of recalling those places.

Please visit gallery.arcadia.edu for details about public programs scheduled in conjunction with the exhibition on November 6 and 12, 2023.