Steidlville

Joan Mitchell, Sunflowers

While New York fostered her early artistic career, Mitchell left the city and the United States for Paris in 1959, finally settling in Vétheuil, a town on the Seine abut an hour outside the capital. There, in 1969, she embarked upon her great sunflower paintings. Brilliant yellows and oranges variously punctuate and dominate Mitchell’s sunflower abstractions, thus conveying a certain sense of promise. “It’s a yellow painting. There’s hope,” Mitchell once explained. In his deeply felt and carefully articulated account of Mitchell’s art, Hickey brings this hope into perspective, stripping it of any sentimental charm in an act that pays homage to Mitchell’s own practice.

Joan Mitchell's Sunflowers will be touring the following galleries

Palazzo Magnani
March 21 until July 1, 2009
Corso Garibaldi, 29 .Reggio Emilia, Italy

Cheim & Reid until December 20
Cheim & Read
547 West 25th Street New York, NY 10001

Kunsthalle Emden. December 6, 2008 until March 8, 2009
Hinter dem Rahmen 13
26721 Emden, Germany