Yetialready (Colin)
Colin Mitchell
Growing up in the home of an underground comix artist, I was steeped in the realm of creatives from a young age. My father was a cartoonist and my mother made jewelry and I made everything from sculptures to paintings to chalk murals. Seemingly inevitable, I attended art school but left school after two years. From this point on is when I really began to feel like an artist.
I lived in and worked within the Walkers Point Creative Collective and began to make and sell work with a newfound passion. I was the baby of the group, 19 and at least a decade younger than my other colleagues. As a member of the collective, I cultivated my love of painting amongst very talented professional muralists and painters for 2 years, but it was sadly cut short when the rent was raised, and our group dispersed to find affordable studio spaces.
Luckily, I found an incredible space on Milwaukee’s north side to work out of, 20Ton Studios, a studio cooperative located in Lindsey Heights, graciously granted me membership and I continue to work there now.
Artist Statement
Through my lens I strive to illustrate a modern mythology, rendering demons and spirits, heroes and villains, bishops and beggars, in contemporary form. Extracted from nighttime dreams, daytime fantasies, everyday meanderings, I distill these ephemeral visions, inserting them into spaces inhabitable by we mortals- to make the out-of-body into something visceral. Influenced by surrealists and street artists alike, I aim to bring dream-like strangeness to massive substrates.
