Anthony Mitri

http://forumgallery.com/artist/anthony-mitri/biography/ 1-4-2013BORN: Cleveland, Ohio, 1951 EDUCATION: 1988-89 Athenaeum School of Fine Art, La Jolla, California. 1983 B.S Geology, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio. 1972-73 Cooper School of Art, Cleveland, Ohio. 1958-69 Cleveland Music School Settlement, Cleveland Institute of Music, piano. Cleveland, Ohio. SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS: 2012 Anthony Mitri, Forum Gallery, New York, NY 2007 Anthony Mitri: New Work, Forum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. 2001 Paintings: Anthony Mitri, Galerie Caisse D’Epargne, Deauville, France. 1999 Paintings: Anthony Mitri, Quint Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA. 1996 Paintings: Anthony Mitri, Thomas Babeor & Company, La Jolla, CA. 1992 Paintings: Anthony Mitri, Hôtel Espérance. Deauville, 1992 France. Paintings: Anthony Mitri, Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, TN. 1990 Paintings: Anthony Mitri, La Jolla Art, Poetry, & Music Society, La Jolla, CA. SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS: 2012 Five Decades: Art and Artists of Forum Gallery 1962-2012, Forum Gallery, New York, NY 2011 Vantage Point 2011, Forum Gallery, New York, NY. 2010 Collector’s Show & Sale, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR. 2008-9 What Comes After Nothing: Post-Minimalist Drawings From The Permanent Collection, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR. 2008 Collector’s Show, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR. 2007 The Fine Art of Drawing: Modern & Contemporary Works on Paper, Forum Gallery, New York, NY. 2006 Modern and Contemporary Landscapes, Forum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. Collector’s Show, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR. 2005 Sixth Annual Invitational Drawing Show, San Diego Public Library, San Diego, CA. Modern and Contemporary Works on Paper, Forum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. 2003 Echolocation, The Farm Gallery, San Diego, CA. 2001 France-United States, VIII Int’l Salon of Painting and Sculpture, Bordeaux, France. 2000 Anthony Mitri – Vincent Petit, La Chapelle St-Lyphard, La Ferté Bernard, France. Group Exhibition, Artist’s Association of Pont L’Eveque, Pont L’Eveque, France. 1999 Group Exhibition, Quint Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA. 1996 Summer Group Exhibition, Thomas Babeor & Company, La Jolla, CA. 1995 Group Exhibition, Del Mar Gallery. Del Mar, CA. 1995 Winter Awards Exhibition, San Diego Art Institute (SDAI), San Diego, CA. 1995 March Group Exhibition, SDAI, San Diego, CA. January Group Exhibition, SDAI, San Diego, CA. 1994 March Group Exhibition, SDAI, San Diego, CA. 1993 Summer Exhibition, Gauthier Gallery. Deauville, France. 1991 Artwalk, The Studio, San Diego, CA. AWARDS: 2010 Adolph & Esther Gottlieb Foundation Grant 2006 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant 1995 Winter Awards Exhibition, Juror’s Choice Award. SDAI, San Diego, CA. January Group Exhibition, Juror’s Choice Award. SDAI, San Diego, CA. March Group Exhibition, Juror’s Choice Award. SDAI, San Diego, CA. 1994 March Group Exhibition, Juror’s Choice Award. SDAI, San Diego, CA. SELECTED PUBLICATIONS: 2008 Ekperigin, Naomi, “The Beauty of New York City in Black and White”, American Artist, Drawing. Winter 2008, P. 25-31. 2007 Lasarow, Bill, “Anthony Mitri”, ArtScene, June 2007, P. 12-13. 2001 “The Paintings of Anthony Mitri”, L’Ouest Newspaper, Deauville, France, June 5, P. 2. 2000 “Africa and Normandy Merge”, Le Perche Newspaper, Le Mans & La Ferté Bernard, France, June 15, P. 21. 1999 Pincus, Robert L., “Ark Skies: Cloudscapes in a Different Hue”, The San Diego Union Tribune. Night & Day, August 12, P. 46. 1993 Munzenmaier, Jan, “Arts Friends Extravaganza Showcases Local Artists”, The Daily Californian, September 23, P. C-1. 1992 McCormack, Larry, “Nashville Artist Anthony Mitri”, Nashville Banner, July 6, P. B-1. MUSEUM COLLECTIONS: Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR PRIVATE COLLECTIONS: Thomas Babeor, La Jolla, CA Donald Bacigalupi, Director, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH Robert and Cheryl Fishko, New York, NY Spencer Hayes, Nashville, TN Anne Hess, New York, NY Mason Phelps, La Jolla, CA Douglas Simay, Director, Arts College International, San Diego, CA Larry Urrutia, Curator of Contemporary Art, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA Mark Quint, Quint Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA Barbara Walbridge, La Jolla, CAAnthony Mitri’s meticulous, life-like charcoal drawings, executed using exceptional concentration, patience and skill, portray the French countryside, urban Paris, New York City, and the artist’s native Cleveland, OH. Each charcoal is the representation of a personal, emotional experience bound to the location depicted. Photographs which Mitri takes at each location help him recall his time spent in such places. These images also serve as guidelines, enabling him to outline the compositional elements of his subjects by way of an under-drawing, after which lighting and the creation of an appropriate mood become his primary focus. More than photographs, however, Mitri’s own indelible memories of each location serve as his primary source material. This could include certain sounds and smells, as well as all the related circumstances in his life which colored his perceptions and influenced his emotions at that particular time and place. The artist has said that “The experience of having been there is crucial to these pictures; the process of rendering a drawing becomes an extended moment of memory, the finished piece, a memoir in charcoal”. In describing his feelings about the work, Mitri quotes the poet William Wordsworth who wrote of an “emotion recollected in tranquility”. Anthony Mitri attended the Cooper School of Art in Cleveland, Ohio, and went onto the Athenaeum School of Fine Art in La Jolla, California, after which he has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions both in Southern California and France. His work has also been included in countless group exhibitions, examples of which can be found in the collection of the Arkansas Arts Center as well as numerous private collections in Southern California.