Mitch Gillette: Treat, ca. 2000, pencil on paper, 16.5" x 20" x 2"

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I've shown work extensively in Philadelphia at various venues, including Studio Diaboliques, Nexus Foundation for Today's Art, The Snyderman Gallery, and the InLiquid Gallery. Besides painting, I have created sculpture, installation, and performance works, including live tableaux of my own paintings. I formed a collaborative group with a choreographer and a composer to produce a dance production based on my comic, Tales of the Buffoon, which premiered at The Painted Bride Art Center. We were then invited to collaborate on a short video version of the same piece for public television station WHYY as part of the Pew Charitable Trust funded Spotlight series. The video, in which the dancers performed inside my drawings using special green-screen effects, later aired nationally and went on, as part of the series, to win a local Emmy. The composer, choreographer, and I continued to work together to create stage works which were performed in Philadelphia and elsewhere, including DIA Art Foundation in New York City. For the past fifteen years I have been solely at work on a 300-page graphic novel, also entitled Tales of the Buffoon, which is very near completion. And I will soon be releasing a recording of original classical piano music performed by pianist Tom Lawton.

www.mitchgillette.com