DECADE
2014 – 2024
MGFA is pleased to commemorate its 10th anniversary with an exploration of printmaking by represented and invited artists, including Barbara Ackerman, Matt Brown, Liz Chalfin, Dan Goldstein, Wolf Kahn, Elaine de Kooning, Willem de Kooning, Eric Fischl, Stephen Hannock, Emily Mason, Jules Olitski, Chuck Olson, Susan Osgood, Erika Radich, Helen Schmidt, James Stroud, Dan Welden, and others.
October 26, 2024 – January 5, 2025
Saturday, October 26
5-7pm, Opening Reception
Check the website for events, including a solarplate demonstration with Dan Welden on Sunday, October 27 at 11:30am.
Mitchell • Giddings Fine Arts is pleased to commemorate its 10th anniversary with Decade: 2014-2024, a gallery-wide exploration of printmaking by represented and invited artists. The opening reception is 5-7 pm, Saturday, October 26, and the show will run through January 5, 2025.
The gallery has chosen to focus on printmaking to mark its tenth anniversary display. Artist prints have been a notable and consistent interest of the gallery. Printmakers value the sodality that’s established around the production of the print, where artist and printmaker blend equipment, skills and vision to create a story greater than the voice of a single person. Exhibiting artists include Matt Brown, Liz Chalfin, Elaine and Willem de Kooning, Eric Fischl, Stephen Hannock, Wolf Kahn, Emily Mason, Jules Olitski, James Stroud, Dan Welden, and others.
Petria Mitchell and Jim Giddings, co-owners of Mitchell • Giddings Fine Arts, have been steeped in the New England regional arts scene for almost five decades. Both professional artists and affiliated with numerous arts organizations and nonprofits, the owners have developed broad knowledge and insights into the world of art making, artists and galleries. Giddings suggests that his world view has been shaped by what he has looked at and looked for, painting permits an investigation and a search for harmony in those looked-at things. Each point of focus affects everything else, and in what was a natural evolution, the creation of a fine art gallery provided the ideal opportunity to share the conversation among artists, collectors and lovers of the visible creative act.
These passions merged in 2013 when they opened a gallery on September 18, 2014, in the heart of downtown Brattleboro. At the opening artist Wolf Kahn proclaimed, “You’ve brought Paris to Brattleboro!” And since its gala premiere (which featured seven artists), MGFA has introduced artwork by more than 100 artists from Maine to Hawaii and curated over 80 exhibits. “While singled out by Style Magazine as one of the nation’s top art towns, and Smithsonian Magazine as one of the best small towns to live in for the quality and number of its arts organizations and venues, Brattleboro has never had a gallery like Mitchell • Giddings Fine Arts. That is, a large commercial gallery with plenty of wall and floor space to show the kind of large-scale work favored by so many artists today.” (Arlene Distler, ArtScope). In December, 2019, MGFA relocated upstairs to its street level location, highlighted by natural light and a storefront window on Main Street. Together these changes reinforce MGFA’s mission to exhibit and promote artists who consciously engage with the myriad of challenges of personal expression within their chosen medium.
Willa Cox
Abstract Narrative Fourteen, 2024
monotype, acrylic gouache (accordion book)
4.5” x 54”
$1,200
Willa Cox
2005, No. 1, 2005
monotype, wax resist, modeling paste, acrylic gouache
30” x 22”
$3,300
Mitchell • Giddings Fine Arts curates a diverse collection of innovative works that stimulate the seasoned collector and aesthetic explorer.