Mitchell Funk
Strip Club Neon Sign on Skid Row San Francisco, 2006
Inkjet Archival Print
43 × 29 in / 109.2 × 73.7 cm
$ 4,500.00
A seedy night street scene becomes an art statement through the lens of Mitchell Funk. He transforms a gaudy commercial sign into a colorful abstraction with the blur of car...
A seedy night street scene becomes an art statement through the lens of Mitchell Funk. He transforms a gaudy commercial sign into a colorful abstraction with the blur of car lights in the foreground. With the advent of the digital world and the internet, these remnants of another world have largely disappeared. Mitchell Funk is not an artist deeply committed to social issues, rather his central concern is capturing the light, shape, color, and form of the world the visual. This work is not meant to express the inner feelings and emotions of the artist but how the artist reinterprets the aesthetics of the street. The work is signed numbered 2\\u002F15, dated and lower right recto, with other sizes available, and it's unframed br Mitchell Funk is a pioneer of " Color Photography" In 1970 he participated in one the first " Color Photography" shows at a major museum. Brooklyn Museum, show "Images en Couleur" . 1971 Included he was included in the visionary book "Frontiers of Photography" Time Life. Color ! American Photography Transformed. Amon Carter Museum. He has had more than 50 Photography Magazine Covers and has had covers on Newsweek, Fortune, New York Magazine and Life Magazine among others