Jeffry Mitchell is an American Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1958. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Seattle Art Museum have featured Jeffry Mitchell's work in the past.Jeffry Mitchell's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 55 USD to 425 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2012 the record price for this artist at auction is 425 USD for The Time Jug, sold at Mroczek Brothers Auctioneers in 2020. Jeffry Mitchell has been featured in articles for , and . The most recent article is written for The Seattle Times in August 2024.
September brings lower temps and, for the visual art scene, plenty of good tidings with a brand-new art walk, the return of a Pioneer Square staple, scores of fun events and exciting new shows.
Highfalutin taste, the exclusiveness of art history, the total abstraction beloved by post-World War II art critics in New York City: These were prime targets for counterculture artists on the West Coast who poked fun at it all. Poking art in the eye, you might say.
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..Mitchell is attracted by the flexibility of clay and as a result, the unusual combination of ideas it could accommodate, in particular the concept of painting, drawing and pottery rolled into one creation...
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..It is such intense proximities that magnetize, inspire, and buoy artist Jeffry Mitchell鈥檚 tragicomic universe, imbuing his current exhibition with an exuberant pathos that is emblematic of his larger practice...
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..Unlike the baroque ceramics of the past 10 years, Mitchell has stripped the ornamentation to focus on the hand thrown vessel and its sensuous surface...
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