The present work, created expressly for the Proxy Gallery and titled “In dicey times… voting matters most!” combines symbolism and literalism to powerful effect: The title already prefigures a contradiction: Dice, the aleatory, stand for chance, while voting stands for the strong desire to make a difference in the outcome of the elections. Both these versions are true: the elections could go this way or that, but what is at stake is democracy itself.

The exhibition is accompanied by a postcard designed by the media duo Sally Stein and Stephen Callis, AKA “Las Terminas” who have been presenting political postcards and other agitprop graphics intermittently for decades. This card derives from the famous etching The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters by the Spanish painter and printmaker Francisco de Goya modified with graphic intervention by Stein and Callis of Trump and his followers.

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In this newer work made specifically for the Proxy Gallery, the spirituality of nature is explored. Of course, nature in its broader form includes everything, human nature and the natural world, but here it is somewhat stylized and given form through choice of colors (yellow, red, white, and lots of blue,) and choice of elements. Found pictures of flowers, stones, planets and sea creatures are presented facing us to emphasize their center.

What the flowers, stones and planets have in common is that they all have radiating circular forms with centers, a theme that Robin Mitchell has cultivated in her painting practice for many years. Equally influenced by Indian gardens, Indian Kantha textiles and her own painting, she seeks to make sensory the beauty of nature.

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