DENNIS LEE MITTCHELL
US, born 1946
Dennis Lee Mitchell is a Virginia based Fine Artist who creates mandalas with smoke on paper inspired by flowers. Raised in a small farm town in Kansas, Mitchell would spend hours looking closely into flowers and when asked what he was doing by his parents he would respond that he was “looking into the universe.”
Mitchell created the process of drawing with smoke by chance nearly a decade ago and shifted his focus from ceramics to creating in this medium. By employing smoke as a drawing tool, delicately applying carbon soot to the surface of paper, the resulting works evoke natural forms where his imagery remains abstract, striking a balance between the representational and the ephemeral.
He is the recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, a Pollock/Krasner Foundation Grant and a grant from the Illinois Arts Council. Mitchell participated in the Art in Embassy program, selected by the U.S. State Department to be a guest artist in Turkey. His work is held in numerous museums, private and public collections and he holds a Master of Fine Arts from Arizona State University.
Mitchell is represented by Sohn Fine Art in Lenox, Massachusetts.
