DAVID MITCHELL
David Mitchell continues to reject the assumption that photography is about representation. Pure abstraction and the process of image making are the subjects of his work. The British-born, Bangkok-based photographer makes large, luminous abstractions that look like stained-glass windows designed by a color-field painter. Created with found materials, such as fabric, paper, tape and sheets of colored plastic, he creates collages that juxtapose blocks of hot, cool, and sugar-sweet colors (the spectrum veers from fauve to Necco wafer), to make photographs that are at once orderly and trippy. The pictures are Mitchell's attempt to give form to the auras he experiences as a result of left-temporal-lobe epilepsy, which he was diagnosed with in 2004. Mitchell has been the subject of two solo exhibitions at Jim Kempner Fine Art. Lyle Rexer, the author of The Edge of Vision: The Rise of Abstraction in Photography, wrote the essay for the catalogue which accompanied his second show. His photographs are in private collections throughout the United States, Europe and Asia.
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David Mitchell
Perihelion Collage 22, 2025
Photograph on Decor mat cotton canvas
36 × 72 inches
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David Mitchell
Perihelion Collage 17, 2025
Photograph on Decor mat cotton canvas
48 × 80 inches
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David Mitchell
Perihelion Collage 20, 2025
Photograph on Decor mat cotton canvas
48 × 96 inches
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David Mitchell
Perihelion Collage 01, 2022
Archival pigment print
48 x 48 inches
Edition of 10
David Mitchell
Perihelion Collage 02, 2022
Archival pigment print
48 x 48 inches
Edition of 10
David Mitchell
Perihelion 35, 2023
Archival pigment print
36 x 36 inches
Edition of 5
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David Mitchell
Perihelion 15, 2022
Archival pigment print
36 x 36 inches
Edition of 5
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David Mitchell
Perihelion 03, 2022
Archival pigment print
48 x 48 inches
Edition of 3
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David Mitchell
Perihelion 05, 2022
Archival pigment print
48 x 48 inches
Edition of 7
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David Mitchell
AB 126, 2011
Archival pigment print
32 x 32", Edition of 7
44 x 44", Edition of 5
David Mitchell
Janusian No. 4, 2009
Archival pigment print
32 x 32 inches
Edition of 7
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David Mitchell
Janusian No. 5, 2009
Archival pigment print
32 x 32 inches
Edition of 7
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David Mitchell
Perihelion Collage 10, 2025
Photograph on Decor mat cotton canvas
48 × 64 inches
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