September 12, 2012
Ransom & Mitchell's "Smoke & Mirrors" Opening Night
News

Annie Owens of Hi Fructose magazine posted a lovely write up of Ransom & Mitchell's Smoke & Mirrors opening:

...the debut solo show by art duo Jason Mitchell and Stacey Ransom, opened this past weekend to a seriously packed house at Varnish Fine Art gallery in San Francisco and it was great to see some familiar faces. Ransom & Mitchell are both life and business partners. “Their visually stunning works, informed by professional backgrounds in the filmmaking world, are the end result of creative collaborations with an intense study of the art world notables they photograph.”

“Smoke & Mirrors” includes an array of photo portrait tableaus of some of the art world’s notorious, arranged on the decaying victorian walls they customized themselves. The centerpiece of the installation was the enormous fanged monster rose mounted on the wall with trailing rootlike tentacles running the length of the gallery.

The delicate modeling of light and shadow in this series is evocative of the Dutch and Italian Renaissance painters. By way of fastidious collaboration between Mitchell, Ransom and their subjects, each portrait depicts sometimes bold, sometimes subtle but always distinct characteristics of each artist’s personality.

Check out the Hi Fructose Blog and our Opening Night photo album on Facebook for more great pics from a fantastic evening. Congrats, guys!

Source Link:   More information

Associated Artists

Associated Exhibitions

Associated News

News Archive


December 19, 2018
October 6, 2015
June 1, 2015
June 3, 2014
May 21, 2014
April 18, 2014
September 11, 2013
June 21, 2013
June 19, 2013
June 12, 2013
May 28, 2013
May 21, 2013
May 16, 2013
May 3, 2013
April 26, 2013
April 26, 2013
April 12, 2013
April 5, 2013
February 26, 2013
February 20, 2013
February 14, 2013
January 10, 2013
January 9, 2013
January 4, 2013
November 27, 2012
May 4, 2012
December 22, 2011
October 26, 2011
September 6, 2011