Charles Mitchell is an undergraduate fine art student here at CSU with a concentration in printmaking. This exhibit displays his work from this semester and will be open to all in the CSU Mini Gallery at the Visual Arts building October 15-19. A reception will be held here on Thursday October 18 at 5pm at which time you will have the opportunity to speak with the artist and ask questions you may have for him. His prints are available for purchase. Email the artist at sigma462@yahoo.com for prices. His works seem very mechanical as though he has much interest in engineering and machinery. They seem structurally unsound and a bit chaotic. He uses very little type and mostly imagery in his works. I enjoyed his variety in scale choices: large, medium, and small prints were all seen in the same room. Charles says "Meaning is a construction, arbitrarily derived from structure. Political, social, physiological, linguistic structures that deny free will. Our actions are the complex and mechanistic result of our experiences within these structures. My work began with the innate and irrational structures expressed in modern science and ancient belief systems. Determinism and fate. I am now more concerned with the external micro and macro power structures. The unacknowledged presence of manipulation, discipline, surveillance, and self-regulation that defines the socio-political simulation. A pervasive language structure, combined with a quest for knowledge underlies it all."
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