Curtis Mitchell: Personas
Opening Nov 7, 5:30- 8, Artist Talk at 6:30
Main Gallery

In his most recent series, Personas, Curtis Mitchell appropriates eloquent film moments, such as the scene in The Godfather when Don Corleone dies while chasing his grandson in an apple orchard. Mitchell projects himself and the viewer into the roles of the protagonists by altering the film to hide their faces, places a photographic print on the floor on which he has exactly recreated their footsteps, and makes an accompanying sculpture.

For The Sculpture Center exhibition, Mitchell will show excerpts of two films. The gallery will be arranged in such a manner that thye viewer will block certain parts of the film while watching it, thus creating the interaction with the protagonists and placing that person into the various roles.

Curtis Mitchell's work, often seen at New York galleries, was last shown in this area at the Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA, in 2003, at P.S.1 MoMA in 2006, and this summer at Maisonneuve, Paris, in The World Is.../Bill ALbertini, Jan Kopp, Curtis Mitchell. Mitchell, a New Yorker, is the fall 2008 Visiting Professor of Sculpture at the Cleveland Institute of Art.