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Mike Mitchell
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Based in Austin, Texas, Mike Mitchell is a pop-culture artist primarily known for his small-scale, giclee prints. Widely collected series include his Food Dudes, Fat Birds, Star Wars, Marvel, Mondo, and Just Like Us prints. He also creates...
Based in Austin, Texas, Mike Mitchell is a pop-culture artist primarily known for his small-scale, giclee prints. Widely collected series include his Food Dudes, Fat Birds, Star Wars, Marvel, Mondo, and Just Like Us prints. He also creates one-of-a-kind prints known as Fat Bastards, in which he tears different prints in half horizontally and then reassembles them as bastardized collages, with tops and bottoms that mostly align but definitely don't match.
Mitchell's first big break came in early 2010 with the release of his "I'm With Coco" poster for Conan O'Brien, who was embroiled in disagreements with his bosses at "The Tonight Show." Later that same year, Mitchell produced a screenprint titled" I'm With Jacob" that was at once a parody of his Coco poster and an image that resonated with fans of the TV Series "Lost." In 2011, Mitchell appeared in several exhibitions that further cemented his reputation as a master of the pop-culture genre, including a show with a group called iam8bit that featured bloodied and tearful Nintendo video-game characters such as Mario and Link. A group exhibition at Gallery 1988 in Los Angeles saw the debut of his much sought after Willy Wonka portrait, while a Jim Henson tribute show at Gallery Nucleus saw the release of his "Sen. C. Monster (R)" and "Oscar the Grandiose" prints.
The Fat Birds arrived in 2012 (the first three were a Robin, a Ruby Crowned Kinglet, and a Ruby Throated Hummingbird), as did characters in his Just Like Us series (Charlie Brown of the Peanuts gang struggling to lift a dumbbell; a wide-eyed Gollum from "Lord of the Rings" sitting in a easy chair watching a jewelry commercial; Saddam Hussein crying to himself while reading "Twilight"). That year, Mitchell also introduced the first prints in his SUPER series, including Winston Zeddemore from "Ghostbusters," Wonder Woman (depicted by Mitchell as Superman in drag), and the Tin Man from "The Wizard of Oz."
Mitchell's Portraits series began in 2013, many of which debuted in an exhibition at the Mondo Gallery in Austin. For that show, there was David Bowie in "The Man Who Fell To Earth," Marty Feldman's Igor character from "Young Frankenstein" (in black and white, of course), and Steve Martin in "The Jerk." More Portraits followed in 2014, many of which were shown at Mondo and depicted Marvel comic-book heroes. And half a dozen perpetually running and smiling Food Dudes were also produced in 2014, including "Bardiche" (a doughnut), "Two Handed Flanged Mace" (a hamburger with all the trimmings), and "Flail & Buckler" (a cup of coffee).
By 2015, Mitchell was going deep into his Fat Birds series, but he also used a "Skully" character he'd developed years before for a Skully Coplay series. Examples included Skully as a green army man, Mickey Mouse, and Bart Simpson. And then came his licensed Star Wars series in 2016, beginning with Luke Skywalker wearing his Red Five fighter helmet and flight suit. The timed edition for that 12-by-16-inch giclee print ran for three days in March, resulting in an edition of 2,120. Another timed Star Wars edition was produced after the untimely death of Carrie Fisher at the end of 2016. For that print, Mitchell drew Princess Leia in profile wearing attire from "The Empire Strikes Back." Again, the ordering period ran for three days and produced an edition size of 3,085; Mitchell donated a portion of the proceeds to an animal organization Fisher had supported.
Continue readingBased in Austin, Texas, Mike Mitchell is a pop-culture artist primarily known for his small-scale, giclee prints. Widely collected series include his Food Dudes, Fat Birds, Star Wars, Marvel, Mondo, and Just Like Us prints. He also creates one-of-a-kind prints known as Fat Bastards, in which he tears different prints in half horizontally and then reassembles them as bastardized collages, with tops and bottoms that mostly align but definitely don't match.
Mitchell's first big break came in early 2010 with the release of his "I'm With Coco" poster for Conan O'Brien, who was embroiled in disagreements with his bosses at "The Tonight Show." Later that same year, Mitchell produced a screenprint titled" I'm With Jacob" that was at once a parody of his Coco poster and an image that resonated with fans of the TV Series "Lost." In 2011, Mitchell appeared in several exhibitions that further cemented his reputation as a master of the pop-culture genre, including a show with a group called iam8bit that featured bloodied and tearful Nintendo video-game characters such as Mario and Link. A group exhibition at Gallery 1988 in Los Angeles saw the debut of his much sought after Willy Wonka portrait, while a Jim Henson tribute show at Gallery Nucleus saw the release of his "Sen. C. Monster (R)" and "Oscar the Grandiose" prints.
The Fat Birds arrived in 2012 (the first three were a Robin, a Ruby Crowned Kinglet, and a Ruby Throated Hummingbird), as did characters in his Just Like Us series (Charlie Brown of the Peanuts gang struggling to lift a dumbbell; a wide-eyed Gollum from "Lord of the Rings" sitting in a easy chair watching a jewelry commercial; Saddam Hussein crying to himself while reading "Twilight"). That year, Mitchell also introduced the first prints in his SUPER series, including Winston Zeddemore from "Ghostbusters," Wonder Woman (depicted by Mitchell as Superman in drag), and the Tin Man from "The Wizard of Oz."
Mitchell's Portraits series began in 2013,...
Based in Austin, Texas, Mike Mitchell is a pop-culture artist primarily known for his small-scale, giclee prints. Widely collected series include his Food Dudes, Fat Birds, Star Wars, Marvel, Mondo, and Just Like Us prints. He also creates one-of-a-kind prints known as Fat Bastards, in which he tears different prints in half horizontally and then reassembles them as bastardized collages, with tops and bottoms that mostly align but definitely don't match.
Mitchell's first big break came in early 2010 with the release of his "I'm With Coco" poster for Conan O'Brien, who was embroiled in disagreements with his bosses at "The Tonight Show." Later that same year, Mitchell produced a screenprint titled" I'm With Jacob" that was at once a parody of his Coco poster and an image that resonated with fans of the TV Series "Lost." In 2011, Mitchell appeared in several exhibitions that further cemented his reputation as a master of the pop-culture genre, including a show with a group called iam8bit that featured bloodied and tearful Nintendo video-game characters such as Mario and Link. A group exhibition at Gallery 1988 in Los Angeles saw the debut of his much sought after Willy Wonka portrait, while a Jim Henson tribute show at Gallery Nucleus saw the release of his "Sen. C. Monster (R)" and "Oscar the Grandiose" prints.
The Fat Birds arrived in 2012 (the first three were a Robin, a Ruby Crowned Kinglet, and a Ruby Throated Hummingbird), as did characters in his Just Like Us series (Charlie Brown of the Peanuts gang struggling to lift a dumbbell; a wide-eyed Gollum from "Lord of the Rings" sitting in a easy chair watching a jewelry commercial; Saddam Hussein crying to himself while reading "Twilight"). That year, Mitchell also introduced the first prints in his SUPER series, including Winston Zeddemore from "Ghostbusters," Wonder Woman (depicted by Mitchell as Superman in drag), and the Tin Man from "The Wizard of Oz."
Mitchell's Portraits series began in 2013, many of which debuted in an exhibition at the Mondo Gallery in Austin. For that show, there was David Bowie in "The Man Who Fell To Earth," Marty Feldman's Igor character from "Young Frankenstein" (in black and white, of course), and Steve Martin in "The Jerk." More Portraits followed in 2014, many of which were shown at Mondo and depicted Marvel comic-book heroes. And half a dozen perpetually running and smiling Food Dudes were also produced in 2014, including "Bardiche" (a doughnut), "Two Handed Flanged Mace" (a hamburger with all the trimmings), and "Flail & Buckler" (a cup of coffee).
By 2015, Mitchell was going deep into his Fat Birds series, but he also used a "Skully" character he'd developed years before for a Skully Coplay series. Examples included Skully as a green army man, Mickey Mouse, and Bart Simpson. And then came his licensed Star Wars series in 2016, beginning with Luke Skywalker wearing his Red Five fighter helmet and flight suit. The timed edition for that 12-by-16-inch giclee print ran for three days in March, resulting in an edition of 2,120. Another timed Star Wars edition was produced after the untimely death of Carrie Fisher at the end of 2016. For that print, Mitchell drew Princess Leia in profile wearing attire from "The Empire Strikes Back." Again, the ordering period ran for three days and produced an edition size of 3,085; Mitchell donated a portion of the proceeds to an animal organization Fisher had supported.
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