The work I have been producing this year commingles a new approach informed by five decades of painting processes and a decade of a digital discoveries. My journey began as a painter encouraged by both non objective, realistic and conceptual points of view in a collegiate environment that embraced all artistic paths equally. This is perhaps the source of the multi perspective points of view that has guided my artistic expression for five decades.
The process of collage, integrating textures, cutting and pasting, building surface, layer by layer while trusting intuitive decisions creates unexpected and fresh content. These optical composites become artwork that reveals a non linear narrative, telling my story through moments of my history and life. I do not consider myself a photographer but rather a traveler that creates alternative visual spaces with a base level comprehension of technical digital processes.
The influence that sparked my interest in motion imagery was the transformative experience of seeing a Bill Viola installation at the Guggenheim Museum in NYC in 2002. This exhibition opened a new internal conversation realizing I was sensing an accomplishment and intensity I understood only a painting or film could convey. The Viola installation was a new powerful visual statement that for me exemplified a 21st century journey that embraced the history of art. I returned to learn more about the artist and found many similarities in our backgrounds, both born in 1951, both working and studying in Florence, Italy in the mid seventies. Like Viola, the Renaissance paintings in the Uffizi Gallery, their new perspectives, commentary on the life and the innovations of that moment have been similar driving forces in my own work. The incredible new view vistas that digital work open for me, combined with painting bridge my artistic roots, my past to my present.
Art for me is a transformative healing experience, a form of singular focus that emulates a meditative state of presence. This state of being allows me to make new connections and pursue new ideas that materialize from this ether. Motion adds the element of real time to my visual vocabulary. Deeper primal connections are developed with the addition of sound to the pieces. The sounds I incorporate intentionally seek out certain frequencies and vibrations that are being discovered to promote healing and unity with a less than understood greater source. Under these higher vibrations are the ambient sounds of life, the sound space we hear but do not acknowledge every day.
Layers of sound, layers of images and metaphorical layers of content are designed to raise a level of conscious being and more importantly a unique visual and auditory experience. It is my believe that art can at least temporarily removing one from the chaos and divisiveness we are experiencing today.
1:06 Escape from everyday life accompanied by healing sound frequencies
Nature is where I find my center and sense of being present. Original images slowly transform in a slow motion video accompanied by healing frequencies
1:06 minute escape with healing frequencies for sound. My interest on Eastern and Western viewpoints are explored in slow motion transitions.
Slow motion transitions symbolize many aspects of my art and love of nature. Sound is designed to promote a universal connection via selected frequencies.
1:06 capturing diverse aspects of my work over decades including previous oil paintings (cut and repurposed), with original still photography and video shot over periods of many years.
Internal thoughts metamorpihize and dematerialize an interior space with symbolic fragmented images.
Performance of photographic oddities
A visual journey symbolic of the healing aspects of nature
My collages, assemblages and installation works are improvised hybrid strategies that enable free play between the conscious and subconscious mind. The process is determined by my response to the present moment and the media I have available in the studio. I accumulate materials, found objects and mix it up with digital imagery. I am a collector of re-useable media and artifacts of our time.
Narratives unfold as fragments of visual information become unified in a hybrid media surface. Layers of information, transparent layers of paint, conceptual layers and layers of media speak in different languages allowing the viewer to arrive at diverse conclusions.
The work I have made from late 2019 / 2020 to the present has been influenced by life in quarantine and now, semi quarantine and vaccinated.
Not only was the world encountering facing life and death issues in a world -wide pandemic, the country upon changing leadership emerged divided, confused and angry.
I have been acutely feeling this energy and my expression of releasing this negativity is the soul of my new work.
All works are for sale unless indicated. Offers will be entertained.
Mixed media with fabric, cut printed media, oil on canvas, color pencil, graphite, painted polymer clay, artificial flowers, rubber gloves and plastic action figures on wood.
48 x 48 inches
Mixed media with fabric, printed digital media, oil paint, gouache, pastel, acrylic painted styrofoam figure, plaster ear, stickers and saw blade on wood.
48 x 48 inches.
Mixed media assemblage with fabric, cut out printed materials, computer boards, oil paint, plastic toys and burnt tree on wood.
42 x 48 inches.
Mixed media with fabric, oil paint, cut printed digital medi and action figures on wood.
42" x 48" x 3"
Mixed media with printed digital photos on Ultra Premium Matt Epson Paper, plastic baggies of various sizes, crime scene tape,and oil pant on wood.
48 x 48 inches.
Mixed media with printed digital media, color pencil gouache, Oil paint and saw blade on canvas.
20 x 20 inches.
Oil on wood with printed digital elements, painted clay and LED lights on wood.
24 x 24 x 1 inches
Mixed media with digital material, oil paint, tape measure and saw blades on wood.
24 x 24 inches.
Mixed media with canson paper, oil paint, computer board pieces, painted clay and LED lights on wood.
24 x 24 inches.
Mixed media with printed digital material, oil paint, graphite, painted clay and LED lights on wood.
24 x 24 inches.
Mixed media with printed digital material, oil paint, graphite, antique handkerchiefs and LED lights.
24 x 24 inches.
Photography has always been a part of my creative life. The art of digital photography provides me the opportunity to indulge in my compulsive curiosity by capturing thousands of moments of beauty. I enjoy viewing the world through a lens, from the tiniest miracles of everyday life to witnessing the grand wonders of nature and urban culture during my travels. Photoshop enables new intricate and interesting composition possibilities. Adding media adds texture something that I find missing in purely digital art. The completed mixed media image enables more of a story and content to emerge.
All works are for sale unless indicated. Offers will be entertained.
Full Moon October 2020. Mixed media with cut Japanese paper, gouache, Prismacolor pencil on Epson Ultra Premium Matte paper.
19 x 13 inches.
Mixed media with cut Japanese printed paper, gouche, cut printed paper and miniature toy sharks on handmade Japanese paper and Epson Premium Matte paper.
Mixed media on archival illustration board with acrylic, cut embroidery paper, cut printed media and embroidery thread.
20 x 20 inches
Mixed media on acrylic painting on paper with dimensional digital print, cut printed media, color pencil and stickers.
13 x 19 x .5 inches
Mixed with with digital print, fabric, cut printed media and Japanese paper, acrylic painted firemen/soldier plastic action figures
Mixed media on a digital composition with cut printed media, gouache, cut Japanese printed paper, color pencil and sticker on Epson Bright Cold Press Archival paper.
19 x 13 inches
Mixed media on a digital composition with cut printed media and Japanese paper, color pencil and embroidery thread on Epson Bright Cold Press Archival paper.
13 x 19 inches
Mixed media on digital print with cut Japanese paper and cut printed media on Epson Ultra Premium Matte paper.
12 x 12 inches
Mixed media on digital composition with cut printed media, gouache, color pencil and embroidery thread on Epson Bright Cold Press paper.
13 x 19 inches
Mixed media with gouache, cut printed paper, cut Japanese paper, acrylic paint, painted nails, miniature toy machine guns and digital composition on Epson Premium Matte Paper.
12 x 12 x .50 inches.
Mixed media with color pencil, gouache, cut Japanese paper, painted miniature toy sharks, embroidered butterfly and digital composition on epson Premium Matte paper.
12 x 12 x .75 inches.
Mixed media with color pencil, gouache, cut Japanese paper, painted miniature toy sharks, miniature model trees and digital composition on Epson Premium Matte paper.
12 x 12 x .75 inches.
Mixed media with cut printed material on Hahnemuhle Paper. 36 x 24 inches.
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Mixed media with gouache, cut printed media and natural material in resin on Hahnemuhle paper.
36 x 24 inches.
Mixed media with cut printed media on Hahnemuhle paper.
36 x 24 inches.
Mixed media with pastel on Hahnemuhle paper.
36 x 24 inches.
Mixed media with color pencil, cut printed media, painted stick with cut leaves on string on Epson Premium Matt Paper.
13 x 19 inches.
Pushing the limits of digital processes create new possibilities of surprising printed surfaces. Fine art digital papers are printed in layers making multiple passes through the printer.
The results are always unexpected and fresh.
Traditional media may be applied with actual collage elements to complete the composition. The result is a hybrid of abstraction, realism and collage in an engaging mysterious surface.
All works are for sale unless indicated. Offers will be entertained.
Mixed media with color pencil on cut paper, cut paper, stickers model trees on Epson Cold Press fine art paper. 14 x 11 inches.
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Mixed media with acrylic, gouache, cut Japanese printed paper, beads and cut printed material on Epson Cold Pressed Fine Art Paper.
14 x 11 inches. Framed
Mixed media mono print with acrylic, cut printed media on Epson Hot Press Bight archival ink jet print.
11 x 8.5 inches. Framed
Mixed media with fabric, acrylic, cut japanese paper, plastic mimiture sharks covered with newsprint, plant media in resin and small crab shell on Epson Cold Press fine art paper.
14 x 11 inches. Framed.
Mixed media on mono print with acrylic, gouache, color pencil, cut printed media on Epson Cold Press arrival ink jet print.
11 x 8.5 inches
Mixed media on mono print with acrylic, color pencil and gouache on Epson Cold Press archival ink jet print.
11 x 8.5 inches
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Mixed media on mono print with acrylic and color pencil on Epson Hot Press Paper.
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Mixed media on mono print with acrylic, color pencil, leaf and ink jet print on Epson Cold Press Bright archival paper.
11 x 8.5 inches
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Mixed media on mono print with acrylic, cut out media ink jet print on Epson Cold Press Bright archival paper.
11 x 8.5 inches
Mixed media with acrylic, gesso, stickers and lizard bones on Epson Cold Press paper. 14 x 11 inches. Framed.
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Mixed media with cut map, gouache, color pencil and painted miniature sharks on Epson Ultra Premium paper.
14 x 11 inches.
Photography has always been a part of my creative life. The art of digital photography provides me the opportunity to indulge in my compulsive curiosity by capturing thousands of moments of beauty. I enjoy viewing the world through a lens, from the tiniest miracles of everyday life to witnessing the grand wonders of nature and urban culture during my travels. This approach opens the possibilities of a surreal, spiritual multilevel visual experience.
I always begin with an initially strong image embedded with the memories and emotion of the time when the image is captured. This creative process echoes my approach to media as a painter where technology allows for the possibilities of many interesting layers that contribute to the development of surface similar as if using paint. There is the space here for visual accidents in both surface and content. The composite images I make can be fascinating, creepy or amusing while evoking a subjective dreamlike imaginary world between the past and the present, nature and culture.
Mixing the past and the present create new connections and transformations.
All works are for sale unless indicated. Offers will be entertained.
Digital composition pigment print on Hahnmuhle Photo Rag Textured paper.
Image size: 36 x 24 inches , sheet 28 x 40 inches. Limited edition of 10,
Archival digital composition printed on Hahnmuhle Photo Rag Textured paper.
Image size: 20 x 44 inches , sheet 24 x 48 inches. Limited edition of 10,
Digital composition pigment print on Hahnmuhle Photo Rag Textured paper.
Image size: 36 x 24 inches , sheet 28 x 40 inches. Limited edition of 10,
Archival digital composition on Epson Fine Art textured 100% rag paper.
13 x 19 inches.
Digital composition, gouache on archival matt ink jet paper. 12 x 12 inches.
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Archival digital ink jet print on matt paper. Limited edition of 20.
19 x 13 inches.
Archival digital ink jet print on matt paper. Limited edition. 1/25.
13 x 19 inches.
Archival print on 100% rag paper.
20 x 40 inches.
Limited Edition of 10
Archival digital ink jet print on matt paper. Limited edition of 20.
13 x 19 inches.
Archival digital ink jet print on matt paper.
13 x 19 inches. Limited edition of 20.
Digital composition with gouache on archival matt paper.
12 x 12 inches.
Large scale digital composition on archival textured paper.
24 x 36 inches. Limited Edition of 10
My new collage work has been inspired by recent visits to LA and discovering Hiromi papers in Culver City. These amazing colorful Japanese printed papers presented endless possibilities and a perfect remedy during the Covid pandemic lockdown.
Detournment, my original return to collage work can be described as creating an object perceived as once destroyed can reemerge with a new sense of purpose and interpretation. As I ripped apart a water-damaged book, my disappointment was transformed into an opportunity for renewal. The destroyed book pages were “ready-made” collages open to a range of possibilities. With each ripped page a new narrative evolved. My personal vocabulary of images connected into the emerging story.
There is no linear plot here but rather independent pieces and stories that transition into a unified statement. Painting, drawing, digital images and found objects empowered by personal memories commingle in a spontaneous approach to form and content. Similarities in structures when juxtaposed reveal layers of commonality, where history and the present connect memory, emotion and form.
Traditional and digital media are integrated in order to explore the physical nature of both mediums. The physical media combined with the digital print enhances the viewer’s visual experience. This introduces an active surface I feel sometimes lacking in 2-D digital language. A productive tension is developed between order and disorder, surface variations and between the former existence of the collage elements and their new context.
The intention of this body of work is to reconstitute pre-existing fragments into something new. An interaction of logic, intuition and chance combinations produce open-ended questions. This approach allows the work to respond to constantly changing visual, cultural and historical circumstances.
All works are for sale unless indicated. Offers will be entertained.
Cut Japanese paper collage with cut printed paper and embroidered paper.
4 x 4 inches.
Cut Japanese paper collage with cut printed and embroidered media.
4 x 4 inches
Cut Japanese paper collage.
6 x 6 inches
Collage with cut Japanese paper and cut printed media.
6 x 6 inches
Collage with cut Japanese paper, cut printed media and embroidery thread.
6 x 6 inches
Cut Japanese paper collage with cut printed media
4 x 4 inches
Mixed media including graphite, plastic toy, cut plastic and printed media on archival ink jet paper. 19 x 13 inches.
275.00
Mixed media including color pencil and printed media on archival ink jet paper. 19 x 13 inches.
275.00
Mixed media including plastic sealed plant matter, oil paint and printed media on archival ink jet paper. 19 x 13 inches.
275.00
Mixed media including oil paint, toy jeans, crumpled paper and printed media on archival ink jet paper. 19 x 13 inches.
275.00
Mixed media including oil paint, charcoal, plastic sealed cut out tree leaf and printed media on archival ink jet paper. 19 x 13 inches.
275.00
Mixed media including added watercolor element, color pencil and printed media on archival ink jet paper. 19 x 13 inches.
275.00
Mixed media including oil paint, plastic sealed crab shell and frond material with printed media on archival ink jet paper. 19 x 13 inches.
275.00
Mixed media including mounted sketch, oil paint and printed media on archival ink jet paper. 19 x 13 inches.
275.00
Mixed media including oil paint, sealed and mounted NC riverrock and printed media on archival ink jet paper. 19 x 13 inches.
275.00
Songs of Innocence and of Experience. William Blake.
This series illustrates William Blake’s poems, Songs of Innocence and of Experience. Blake’s writing evokies the eternal human experiences of joy and disillusionment, still relevant today. Interpreting this incredible work provides me the opportunity to narrate observations of present life conditions through Blake’s words, inventing a parallel universe to William Blake’s time, as well as our own.
A common thread between my own and Blake’s perception is an awareness of the illusion of existence. Photoshop has enabled the reinvention of past realities into new visionary compositions. The emerging narrative is stoked by curiosity and fascinated by both the mysterious and the sublime. Nature and its relationship to eternity becomes the backdrop for passion plays of the soul.
The book may be viewed and ordered directly at:
http://www.blurb.com/search/site_search?search=mimi+botscheller&filter=bookstore&commit=Search
Large scale archival digital composition on paper.
Limited Edition of 25. 24 x 24 inches. Limited edition mounted. 3/25.
Large scale archival digital composition on paper.
Limited Edition of 25. 24 x 24 inches. Limited edition 3/25.
Large scale archival digital composition on paper.
Limited Edition of 25. 24 x 24 inches. Limited edition. 3/25.
Large scale archival digital composition on paper.
Limited Edition of 25. 24 x 24 inches. Limited edition 3/25. Framed
Large scale archival digital composition on paper.
Limited Edition of 25. 24 x 24 inches. Limited edition 3/25.
Large scale archival digital composition on paper.
Limited Edition of 25. 24 x 24 inches. Limited edition 1/25.
Large scale archival digital composition on paper.
Limited Edition of 25. 24 x 24 inches. Limited edition 1/25.
Large scale archival digital composition on paper.
Limited Edition of 25. 24 x 24 inches. Limited edition 1/25.
Large scale archival digital composition on paper.
Limited Edition of 25. 24 x 24 inches. Limited edition 3/25. Framed
Picasso meets Muybridge meets the Futurists, meets Francis Bacon. Muybridge's exquisite panoramic landscape images were painstakingly cut and pasted slices of every square inch of his subject. Bacon rearranged and pulverized photos in his paintings which shoed multiple violent points of view. And the Futurists praised "the beauty of speed" with multiple repeating images in motion. A connection to history and iphone glitch images was present.
The images are all in one capture, no Photoshop, no compositing. I have only adjusted the levels and lighting. The results are a developing body of work provides multiple points of view as creative artifacting. By stimulating the lens with dynamic sensation and movement while at the same time taking a panoramic capture the movement and light destroy the materiality of the bodies so I believe that they simply disappear. In other instances the camera is trying to keep up recording the slices of movement where resolution is sacrificed artifacting occurs where data becomes missing.
The association to "artifact" in the more traditional definition interesting when one associates the term with an object made by a skilled hand when in digital terms this is seen quite in negative ways. The unexpected and random quality of the process is intruiging.
Large scale panoramic photograph on Epson Luster paper.
12 x 55 inches.
Large scale panoramic photograph on Epson Luster paper.
12 x 55 inches.
Large scale panoramic photograph on Epson Luster paper.
12 x 55 inches.
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Large scale panoramic photograph on Epson Luster paper.
12 x 55 inches.
Large scale panoramic photograph on Epson Luster paper.
12 x 55 inches.
Large scale panoramic photograph on Epson Luster paper.
12 x 55 inches.
Large scale panoramic photograph on Epson Luster paper.
12 x 55 inches.
Glitch photograph on Epson Luster paper.
12 x 12 inches.
Large scale panoramic photograph on Epson Luster paper.
12 x 55 inches.
The work ties together visual perceptions of life which co-exist synchronistically. I compose images where intuition and logic meet, where art, spirituality and science commingle. For me painting can creates a place where I can experiment with invented dimensional space and nature provides the structure where art, science and spirituality coexist. I allow intuition to build the painting which relies on color and form and surface to drive the emotive aspects of the visual experience.
All works are for sale unless indicated. Offers will be entertained.
Oil on canvas.
30 x 50 inches.
Oil on canvas.
96 x 72 inches.
Oil on canvas.
70 x 56 inches.
Tryptych. Oil on canvas.
72 x 108 inches.
Oil on canvas.
56 x 72 inches.
Oil on canvas.
36 x 48 inches.
Oil on canvas.
48 x 36 inches.
Oil on canvas.
48 x 48 inches.
Oil on canvas.
48 x 36 inches.
Oil on illustration board.
50 x 40 inches. Framed.
Oil on canvas. 36 x 36 inches
900.00
Oil on canvas. 62 x 72 inches.
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Album cover design for LA band Yeti Tactics. Created a unified visual campaign for the bands album cover for both CD and vinyl as well as tour posters and promotional materials.
From the debut of the Yeti Tactics album through a coastal summer tour the following are promotional posters featuring a unified brand for the band.
Jordan Sherman’s first recorded collection of songs. Sherman writes, performs and records his music. Natan Bulla and Bradley Merryfield hailing from Ontario, Canada round out the sound with Bulla’s percussion and Merryfield’s bass.
The original art is gouache on illustration board. I also created a video for the title track of the album which is posted here in the video section of the site.
The CD art and photography for the inside of the jewel case design.
A prominent Miami Latin funky Jazz band cover design.
Cover art is oil on canvas. Logo and photography is by Scott Sherman.
Feast of Kings debut album. Tim King’s brilliant blend of classic and alternate rock. the band is based in windsor, Ontario, Canada.
Work that is variable and contains elements that are linked to the environment or space that contains it becomes an installation. Many of the installations I work on are variable in nature and can be reassembled in different configurations.
23 individual 5 x 7 inch oil on canvas' velcroed to wood with chalk and LED lights.
Triptych oil on canvas with type on florescent light fixtures, icon sculptures made from Sculpy and painted with acrylic.
Installation view of Hybrid Strategies Exhibition at the Mark K Wheeler Gallery. Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Close up of light fixtures with text and icon sculptures. Approximate area of detail, 28 x 34 inches.
Backdrop design and installation for the Bob Marley Movement. This image the opening dedication ceremony. Miami, Florida
Backdrop design and fabrication for Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers final concert. Pompano Beach Amphitheater, Pompano Beach, Florida
Still image from video of the concert. Available on DVD.
Deconstruction eventually leads to reinvention or a restructuring of potential new possibilities in one's life and art. As a painter for 40 years I always grappled with the thought that a single fixed point of view was limited. I wanted my paintings to be able to change over time, become less of a static object. I wanted my art to incorporate motion. My After Effects composition "The Reinventor" allowed me to be able to realize this long-term goal. With twenty years of photographed images of my work at my disposal it was time to reinvent my work.
The Reinventor project was developed during a final Graduate studio class at Miami International University of Art. An intuitive process similar to making a painting led me to select images based on similarities of formal properties. Photoshop was extensively used to recompose my images to a widescreen format and Pro Tools used to record the soundtrack. My past was integrated conceptually and digitally into the present
A music video for the artist Jordan Sherman from his album Life Outside.
A work in progress based on a painting called the Green Table I made several years ago. The new artwork/painting is renamed for the present project. A statement about politics and corporate greed is explored here. Thanks to Anthony Siarkiewicz for assisting me with this video.
The Inventor was created in my grad studio class at Miami international University of Art. This is my first After Effects project. The content of the video is based on the lyrics of my son's song The Inventor from his album Tides.
9, 72 x 48 inch oil on canvas mounted to wood for Terminal 19, Port Everglades, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
Broward-based artist Mimi Botscheller used the theme of tropical splendor to create nine mural paintings to greet travelers at Terminal 19, Port Everglades. The nine, oil-on-canvas mounted on wood panel paintings, each with lush color and composition of tropical flora, serve as windows of the pleasurable world we call Broward County. Viewing is by appointment only; for appointment call 954-523-3404
Oil on canvas with wood dowel rods. 40 x 60 inches
Broward based artist Mimi Botscheller reinterpreted the theme of landscape in this multi-dimensional portrayal of magic realism. In the foreground, a line of stylized trees are silhouetting against a nocturnal sky. Looking upward, a dramatic sunset with blazing clouds looming over the plain, is seen through two openings, flanking a central opening with six dowel rods of rainbow colors. An almost perfect symmetry is premeditated in the composition, to eschew the incongruent and conflicting stylistic depictions of the subject matter.
Located in the Mass Transit Division, Broward County. Pompano Beach, Florida
Commissioned design for the city of Dania Beach Traffic Signal Project Grant.
Digitally wrapped utility boxes designed for the city of Oakland Park, Florida.
Series of Florida Flora designed for utility boxes for the City of Oakland Park, Florida.
Series of Florida flora designed for utility boxes City of Aokland park, Florida.
Florida flora designed for utility boxes for the City of Oakland Park, Florida.
