In the heat of the summer, we traveled to the Gadsden Art Center in the enchanting southern town of Quincy to see nationally-acclaimed artist Dean Mitchell’s “Rich in Spirit” exhibit at the Gadsden Art Center. Mitchell is a local success story, and the African-American’s paintings are celebrated throughout the world. Visit his website to see why. For this special exhibit he featured some of his homeland’s old Tobacco Barns and the region’s colorfully non-white characters. His paintings were beyond wonderful and told me stories that were both familiar and new. Outside of the Center and removed from Mitchell’s cool clean narratives on canvas, it was blistering hot. We tried to walk around the town that can’t help but look like a movie set; it’s so charming. But it was hot. I tried to tell my sister-friend about the town’s connection to Coca-Cola and all its other Frank Capra attributes, but the heat made everything seem exhausting. We finally had to get in the air conditioned car to drive home. This was on the way home and we both thought the scene looked like Mitchell’s paintings.
Small: 16.5” x 10” – $140.00 | Medium: 31” x 20” – $170.00 | Large: 42” x 40” – $470.00