1986

<i>Joan Mitchell told interviewer Yves Michaud in 1986, “I imagine a sort of scaffolding made of painting stretchers around a lot of colored chaos as an identity.” The terms of Mitchell’s self-image are characteristic in that they point through the self to the work. Instead of a throwaway professional despair (or cosmic acedia at mid career), her “scaffolding” reflects the weathered pragmatism of an improviser who has seen into the heart of her method.</i>

https://www.artforum.com/print/198807/in-living-chaos-joan-mitchell-34436

Untitled
1986
Water-soluble wax crayon and wash on paper
27 x 30 cm
Private Collection