Paper, ink

Black and white abstract ink drawing by California artist Donald Mitchell. Known for his densely packed figurative compositions, this work is emblematic of his overall body of work. Currently hung in a solid black frame with a complementary white matting.

Donald Mitchell, who has been working at Creative Growth in Oakland since 1976, has become one of the most recognized artists living with developmental disability in the world; he's exhibited and collected nationally and internationally at Rena Bransten Gallery, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, the Collection de L’Art Brut in Lausanne, Switzerland and ABCD in Paris. Mitchell's body of work epitomizes a totally authentic and personal engagement of drawing as a lifelong investment in the exploration of mark-making, intuition, and invention. His work develops slowly over time, emerging into a mysterious world of figures. From Creative Growth: "Donald Mitchell’s early work consisted primarily of obsessively crosshatched fields of lines that covered the page and hid any trace of an underlying image. Over time, Donald started to reveal the faces and forms that he had buried on the page. Donald’s prolific work is now filled with figures in motion and repose, and his trademark has become a tightly composed, graphically sophisticated page of crowded figures."

H 20.88 in. x W 27.38 in. x D 1.18 in.

H 19.38 in. x W 25.75 in.