Artist's Talk with Jeffry Mitchell

Denison’s Studio Art program welcomes Vail Visiting Artist Jeffry Mitchell for an artist’s talk.

For nearly three decades, Mitchell has been perplexing the art world. His work defies categorization, bouncing freely between craft and fine art, high and low, kitsch and the refined. Raised Catholic and increasingly drawn to Eastern philosophies, the artist has assembled an oeuvre that is redolent with allusions to redemption and transcendence as realized through sex, death, and religion. Most well known for his humorous yet sophisticated ceramics and pattern-filled works on paper, Mitchell seamlessly melds Eastern and Western precedents with references to pop culture, repeated floral motifs, and subtle sexual innuendos codified by the history of ceramics.