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Mitch Gillette (born 1956, Springfield, Vermont)

mg@mitchgillette.com

www.mitchgillette.com / www.talesofthebuffoon.com / www.mitchgillettemusic.com

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EXHIBITIONS and PROJECTS:

2023

Live recital Tom Lawton plays Mitch Gillette, music for piano, November 18th 8PM, The Rhoden Arts Center Auditorium at The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Hamilton Building, 128 N Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA.

Album release Tom Lawton plays Mitch Gillette, music for piano, digital download, streaming, and CD formats.

2019

Solo Exhibition Mitch Gillette, NUDES The InLiquid Gallery, Philadelphia, PA.

2018

Invitational Group Exhibition, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Painted Bride Art Gallery, Philadelphia, PA.

2014

Invitational Group Exhibition, Current | Approaching: InLiquid Turns 15, Bahdeebahdu, Philadelphia, PA.

2005

Invitational Group Exhibition, MissionCreep.com: Live!, Nexus/Foundation for Today’s Art, Philadelphia, PA.

2004

Invitational Group Exhibition, The Great (re)Masters, Spector Projects, Philadelphia, PA.

1997

Solo Exhibition, New Work, Snyderman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA.

1996

Solo Exhibition, Ballpoint, Nexus/Foundation for Today’s Art,

Installation, Artfront Partnership: Contract award for site-specific installation.

1995

Solo Exhibition, New paintings, Snyderman Gallery,

Invitational Group Exhibition, Fourscore and Forthcoming, Philadelphia Art Alliance 80th Anniversary, Philadelphia Art Alliance,

Exhibition Organizer and Curator, The Realm of Morpheus, Dream Image in Art, Nexus/Foundation for Today’s Art, Philadelphia, PA (exhibition essay).

Performance, Five Tableaux Vivants, Snyderman Gallery,

1994

Solo Exhibition, Object Studies, Studio Diabolique, Philadelphia, PA.

Exhibition Organizer and Curator, The Complete Drawing, Nexus/Foundation for Today’s Art, Philadelphia, PA (exhibition essay).

Invitational Group Exhibition, Masks, Snyderman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA.

1993

Solo Exhibition, Fools, recent paintings, Nexus/Foundation for Today’s Art, Philadelphia, PA.

Performance, Five Fool Tableaux Vivants, Nexus/Foundation for Today’s Art, Philadelphia, PA.

1992

Solo Exhibition, Drawings, Studio Diabolique, Philadelphia, PA.

Invitational Group Exhibition, Gender Engendered, Community Education Center, Philadelphia, PA.

Invitational Group Exhibition, Figures of Eight, Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE.

Performance, Mouth, a collaborative stage work, with choreographer Anne-Marie Mulgrew and composer Claude White, DIA Center for the Arts, New York, NY.

Performance, Roadblock, The Physiology of Taste, Mouth, and evening of collaborative stage works (with A. Mulgrew and C. White), Drake Theater of the University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA.

1991

Invitational Group Exhibition, Art Around the Edges II, Port of History Museum, Philadelphia, PA.

Video, Tales of the Buffoon, collaborative production created for WHYY-TV Channel 12, with choreographer A. Mulgrew and composer C. White, funding from the Pew Charitable Trusts.

Special Projects Grant, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, with collaborators Anne-Marie Mulgrew and composer Claude White.

1990

Solo Exhibition, The Buffoon Paintings, Nexus Gallery, Philadelphia, PA.

Performance, Tales of the Buffoon, a collaborative stage work, with choreographer A. Mulgrew and composer C. White, Painted Bride Art Center, Philadelphia, PA.

1989

Solo Exhibition, Recent Drawings, Studio Diabolique, Philadelphia, PA.

Solo Exhibition, The Kiss and other Paintings and Drawings, Studio Diabolique, Philadelphia, PA.

Book, Tales of the Buffoon, comic book, published by Studio Diabolique, Philadelphia, PA.

Special Projects Grant, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, with collaborators Anne-Marie Mulgrew and composer Claude White.

 

BIBLIOGRAPHY, FILMED INTERVIEWS, & REFERENCES:

Donald Chant Bohn,

“Gender Engendered,” New Art Examiner, October 19, 1992, page 38.

Julie Davids,

“Uncompromising Art,” Labyrinth, August, 1992, pages 5, 11.

Margalit Fox,

“A Brooklyn Art Gallery Sends in the Clowns,” New York Newsday, November 3, 1992, page 49.

Fred B. Gable,

“Review,” Art Matters, May, 1993, page 2.

Nancy Goldner,

“Review: Dance,” Philadelphia Inquirer, June 3, 1992, page 3.

“Dance Review,” Philadelphia Inquirer, April 5, 1991, weekend section, page 20.

Joseph Hancock,

Brand/Story: Ralph, Vera, Johnny, Billy, and Other Adventures in Fashion Branding Published June 23rd, 2009, Fairchild Books, Chapter 1.

Miriam N. Kotzin,

A Per Contra Interview with Mitch Gillette,” Per Contra Journal of the Arts, Issue 26, Winter, 2012. http://www.percontra.net/issues/26/visual-art/

Miriam N. Kotzin,

A Per Contra Interview with Mitch Gillette,” Per Contra Journal of the Arts, Issue 26, Winter, 2012. http://www.percontra.net/issues/26/visual-art/

Andrew Mangravite,

“Oh, You Crazy Fools,” Welcomat, April 21, 1993, page 42.

“The Sad Times of a Buffoon,” Welcomat, November 11, 1992, page 28.

Michael O’Reilly (producer),

Tales of the Buffoon,” Interview and filmed segment for WHYY-TV Friday Arts Program, 2012.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SwNkw_RCo8

Robin Rice,

“Fool’s Paradise,” Philadelphia City Paper, April 2-9, 1993, page 16.

“Gender, Gender Everywhere,” Philadelphia City Paper, May 15-20, 1992, page 18.

Christmas Catalogues; Art Books from area Museums,” Philadelphia City Paper, December 1-8, 1989, page 12.

Joan K. Smith,

“Art Around the Edges II,” New Art Examiner, June / Summer, 1993, page 38.

Edward J. Sozanski,

“Comic Surrealism Applied to Human Figures,” Philadelphia Inquirer, June 30, 1995, page 44.

“400 artists ensconced at the armory,” Philadelphia Inquirer, May 10, 1992, page 4D.

Lord, what fools this artist’s figures be,” Philadelphia Inquirer, April 16, 1993, weekend section, page 34.

Emerging artists at Port of History,” Philadelphia Inquirer, September 13, 1991, weekend section, page 10.

On Galleries,” Philadelphia Inquirer, November 1, 1990, page 5D.

On Galleries,” Philadelphia Inquirer, September 14, 1989, page 4D.

Craig Stover, producer,

“ArtShow with artist Mitch Gillette,” filmed interview, November 2023.

John Thornton, producer,

“Artist Mitch Gillette, Depicting the Comic Curse of Humanness,” biographical film, November 2023.