VES 20ar: Plane Image
VES 20br: Plane Image II
VES 96p: Directed Research in Painting and Drawing
VES 111r: Drawing the Dark Side

Orange Ruin, 2007–08, oil on canvas, 59 x 99 in.

Mitchnick studied painting at Wayne State University in Detroit and Hunter College in New York. She has exhibited regularly at the Hirschl and Adler Modern Gallery and Anita Friedman Fine Arts in New York; John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco; and Susanne Hilberry Gallery in Detroit. Her work has been included in distinguished group shows, many of which have toured museums nationally. Her paintings are part of the permanent collections of the J. B. Speed Museum, the Detroit Institute of Arts, and Williams College. She was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Award as well as a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Mitchnick was a faculty member of the conceptual art school California Institute of the Arts from 1987 through 1998, where she developed a painting program. She joined the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies as a visiting lecturer, was appointed senior preceptor for the 1998Ð99 academic year, and is currently Rudolf Arnheim Lecturer on Studio Arts. In 2001 she was awarded the Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Prize. A solo exhibition of her work was held in October 2003
at the Cue Foundation in New York.