“My paintings repeat a feeling about Lake Michigan, or water, or fields. It’s more like

“My paintings repeat a feeling about Lake Michigan, or water, or fields. It’s more like a poem…and that’s what I want to paint.” Today MOCA remembers the great abstract expressionist and feminist painter Joan Mitchell, who was born on this day in 1925. Mitchell deeply associated her paintings with poetry, using poems as inspiration prior to painting, and one can identify the poetic forms of her wild yet controlled artwork. Over 20 years later after her untimely passing (due to lung cancer), Joan Mitchell’s work is as acclaimed and respected as ever. Last year, David Zwirner gallery in New York, who represents Mitchell, showed Joan Mitchell: I carry my landscapes around with me, the first exhibition to focus on the artist’s multi-paneled paintings.

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