Craig Mitchell, "At the Crossing III"
Local artist Craig Mitchell was recently honored by an acquisition from the Whittemore Peterson Institute for Neurological Immune Disease at the new center for Molecular Medicine on the University of Nevada, Reno campus. Mitchell’s oil paintings explore the process of creation and engage viewers into looking at a captured and transient moment in time and place, one that often eludes the busy experience of everyday life.
Nearly all of his paintings begin as plein air studies and are then used as references in the studio. For Mitchell, inspiration comes in the form of extended trips into remote wilderness areas of the West.There he finds a spiritual exchange within a pristine environment, an experience that cannot be substituted when it comes to truthfully observing colors and an unfiltered view of the earth.
Mitchell’s father was a fisherman, teaching him to fish and appreciate the natural world. As a contemporary, impressionistic painter, Mitchell strives to balance the respect of nature’s conventions with his own interpretation of hue, composition and unity expressed in a fluid painterly style. He also gives a nod to the past in technique and other time-proven principles and traditions that transcend artistic genres as a sound foundation for artistic innovation. Contact Stremmel Gallery in regards to Craig Mitchell’s work and view additional images online.
Hopes Soar for Research Center – By Lenita Powers, RGJ
With the grand opening Monday of the Center for Molecular Medicine at the University of Nevada, Reno, the world has gained another powerful weapon in the fight against diseases that cripple and kill millions of people every year, one of the new center’s key researchers said.
“There are about 25,000 different diseases that affect humankind, and we can only treat 600 of them effectively,” said Dr. Sanford Barsky, chairman of the Pathology Department at the University of Nevada School of Medicine.
“So the status of our medical knowledge is extremely rudimentary even in the 21st century, and the only way to tackle these diseases that have no cure or effective treatment is through research,” Barsky said. To read more.