Joan Mitchell: Portrait of an Abstract Painter (Art on Film Series), Q & A with Yvette Lee Crowley

Members of the Katonah Museum of Art, Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Hudson River Museum, Neuberger Museum, Storm King Art Center, and WFUV: Bring your membership cards and receive the JBFC member discount for two tickets to each program in this series.

In the Art on Film Series, from the Jacob Burns Center:

Joan Mitchell: Portrait of an Abstract Painter

“Eloquent visual testimony to Mitchell’s appetite for being in the moment.” (New York Times)

Abstract Expressionist Joan Mitchell, often the only woman in the room, was a painter with a forceful, ecstatic style all her own. Filmed by Marion Cajori (Chuck Close, Louise Bourgeois) in New York, Paris, and at Mitchell’s home in the French countryside, the artist is revealed as a person of wild contradictions, with a biting wit yet deep vulnerability, a painter of blazing color and a graceful lyricism.

Q&A Yvette Lee Crowley, Exhibitions Manager for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, co-curated a major Joan Mitchell retrospective at the Whitney Museum in 2002. Helaine Posner, Chief Curator and Deputy Director of Curatorial Affairs of the Neuberger Museum of Art, is a co-author of After the Revolution: Women Who Transformed Contemporary Art.

Marion Cajori. 1993. 58 m. NR. US. Arthouse Films.