Artist: Mitchell Long | Location: New Orleans, LA
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Artist: Mitchell Long | Location: New Orleans, LA
New Orleans, LA
I am a painter who has been living and working in New Orleans for over twenty years. I have painted the city and my personal interior spaces within it. My process for the last thirty years has been working from direct observation, with no use of photography. In the past two years, I have shifted in process and started working from photographs. This shift has opened up the subject matter of my paintings, while my style has stayed true to a painterly naturalism. New subject matter includes interiors of Costco and Walmart stores. These paintings reflect the realism of Dutch still-life paintings and the work of the eighteenth-century painter Chardin, as well as the realism of Degas and Hopper. I also work at Southeastern University as an adjunct professor of drawing. I have works in the Collections of The New Orleans Museum of Art, The Tampa Museum of Art, The Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, The Gulf Coast Museum of Art, and The Louisiana State Museum.