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Dennis Lee Mitchell

Curriculum Vitae

 

Recent Solo Exhibitions

2011    “Distillation”, Dubhe Carreño Gallery, Chicago IL (January 7-February 26)

2009     “Origin”, Alcoma Gallery, Athens, Greece

2008    “Human Nature”, Dubhe Carreño Gallery, Chicago, Illinois           

2007    “Material Transformation”, Kemper Art Gallery, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois

2006    “Sense of Origin”, Clarke House Museum, Chicago, Illinois

             “Source”, Dubhe Carreño Gallery, Chicago, Illinois            

2005    “Manifest”, Dubhe Carreño Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

2004    “Sculptures”, Dubuque Museum of Art, Dubuque, Iowa

             “New Works”, Dubhe Carreño Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

2001     “Sculptures”, Amalgama Gellery, Thessaloniki, Greece

 

Recent Group Exhibitions

 

2010     The Chicago Art Loop, Chicago, IL

            NCECA 2010 Invitational, Moore Galleries, Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,

            Trompe L’oeil, John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, California

               

2009     Considering Spring, Pacini Lubel Gallery, Seattle, Washington

             Perspective, Function Art, Chicago, IL

             The 5th World Contemporary Ceramic Biennale, Icheon-city South Korea

 

2008     The Leaf and the Page, Illinois State Museum, Chicago, IL

            Re:visions, Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL

             Trompe L’oeil, John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis California 


2007     Cheongju International Craft Biennale, Cheongju  City, Chungbuk, South Korea

             Honorable Mention

             “Botanical”, Santa Fe Clay, Santa Fe, New Mexico

             “Sculpture Invasion”, Koehnline Museum of Art,Oakton Community College, Des Plaines, IL

             “Contemporary”, Aldo Castillo Gallery, 465 East, Illinois Street, Chicago, IL

            Art XIII, Couturier Gallery, Los Angeles, California

            21st International Juried Exhibition, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, New Jersey

            “Match”, Dubhe Carreño Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

 

 2006   “Ingrained Passion”, Function + Art, Chicago, Illinois

            Krasl Biennial Sculpture Invitational, Krasl Art Center, St. Joseph, Michigan

            Rockford Midwestern Biennial, Rockford Museum of Art, Rockford, IL

            “30 Ceramic Sculptors”, John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA

            “Nature/Culture”, Santa Fe Clay, Santa Fe, New Mexico

                         Chicago Sculptors Biennale, Flatfile Galleries, Chicago, IL

                        Biennale, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN

                       “People of the Mud”, A Look at Chicago Ceramics, Chicago Tourism Center, Chicago, IL

 

            2005    SOFA Chicago, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL

                        “Magnificent Extravagance”, Artists and Opulence, Wustum  Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, WI

                          “Manifest”, Solo Exhibition, Dubhe Carreño Gallery, Chicago, IL

 

            2004    “Earth”, Flatfile Galleries, Chicago, IL

                         “Global All Media International”, Gallery International, Baltimore, MD

              SOFA Chicago, Navy Pier, Dubhe Carreño Gallery, Chicago, IL

                          “Sculptures”, Solo Exhibition, Dubuque Museum of Art, Dubuque, Iowa

                         “Drawing to Sculpture”, Drawing/Sculpture Exhibition, Delaplaine Visual Arts Center, Fredrick,M

            “A Sense of Identity”, Contemporary Ceramic Art, University of Indianapolis & NCECA 38th Annual Conference, Indianapolis, IN

“A Sense of Identity”, Contemporary Ceramic Art, Indiana University- Purdue University, Visual             Arts Gallery, Fort Wayne, Indiana

            “That 70’s Show”, The Age of Pluralism in Chicago

            Northern Indiana Arts Association, Munster, Indiana

 

             2003   “State of Clay”, Regional Survey of Contemporary Ceramic Sculpture,

                          Evanston Art Center, Evanston, Illinois

 

            2002    “Artists Educators”, The Work of 12 Illinois Professors, Lill Street Art Center, Chicago, Illinois

                         

            2001    “Sculptures”, Solo Exhibition, Amalgama Gellery, Thessaloniki, Greece

 

Bibliography

2009     Adventures of the Fire, World Ceramic Biennale, Icheon-city, South Korea

 

2008     Margaret Hawkins, Dennis Lee Mitchell Natural Fragments, Ceramic Art & Perception

 

             Alan Artner, Dennis Lee Mitchell, Review, Solo Exhibition at

             Dubhe Carreño Gallery, Chicago Tribune, March 21, 2008

 

2006     John Natsoulas, “30 Ceramic Sculptors 2006”, John Natsoulis Press

 

2005     Bridgette R. McCullough, Review, Solo Exhibition,

             Dubhe Carreño Gallery, Time-Out Chicago

 

2005     Elaine Levin, “I Have Always been Driven with Desire for the Straightforward

              Truth of the Natural World”, Ceramic Art and Perception

 

2005     Glen Brown, Review, Solo Exhibition at Dubuque Museum of Art, American Ceramics, 14/4

 

2004     “Dennis Lee Mitchell’s Microcosm of Transformation”, Solo Exhibition,

             Essay by Glen R. Brown, Dubuque Museum of Art, Dubuque, Iowa

            

             Tarkassis, Kostas, “Dennis Lee Mitchell” Kerameiki Techni

 

Public Collections

Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, Utah

Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia, Missouri

Arizona State University Art Museum, Ceramics Research Center, Tempe, Arizona

Deloitte & Touche Collection, Chicago, Illinois

Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

University of Evansville, Evansville, Indiana

Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, Illinois

Illinois Collection for the State of Illinois Center, Chicago, Illinois

 

Private Collections

Han, Hyang-Lim, Director, Hanhyanglim Gallery, South Korea

Paul Klein, Chicago

William Lieberman, Chicago

Kostas Tarkassis Collection, Greece

Hector Mavridis Collection, Greece

 

Grants and Awards

2004    Illinois Arts Council, Special Assistance Grant

1977    National Endowment for the Arts, Crafts Critic Fellowship Grant

1975-6 National Endowment for the Arts, Craftsmen’s Fellowship Grant

 

Education

1971    Master of Fine Arts in Ceramics, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona

1969    Master of Arts in Ceramics, Fort Hays Kansas State University, Hays, Kansas

1968    Bachelor of Arts, Fort Hays Kansas State University, Hays, Kansas

 

Current Position

 Professor of Art, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, Illinois