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Artist of the Month for February/March: 
Mitch Brookman

I've spent a lot of hours snooping around the internet looking for interesting artists that I can share with you. Every once in awhile, when I'm not looking for new art, I find great new art. I'm sure things like that happen to a lot of people. "I gave up looking for a dining room table, then I was driving by an estate sale...etc. etc."  Recently, I became internet friends with a guy named Mitch Brookman. Also recently, I was looking for a new artist of the month. Worlds collide and it turns out that Mitch is an artist. A good artist. A good artist that is working in a medium that I have seen very little of in my endless search for great art. He is a mosaicist. Put simply, he makes pictures with small colored pieces of tile, glass, and whatnot. Mitch studied art in San Francisco then moved to the capital of Texas where he lives and creates a lot of the time. He also keeps a house in Hanoi, Vietnam which you will see influences some of his artwork. His tile work is something to behold. You can tell by the intricacies that each piece is painstaking work. Although I'm highlighting his mosaic work first, I also included some of his oil paintings further down the page. They are just as grand. His oil paintings have a similar feel to his mosaic work in that there are bold swatches of color, but they are more free-form and impressionistic. Similar but different. You can see for yourself in the photos below. Mitch's work is in the hands of some celebs whom he has immortalized in mosaic form. I included a collage of them that Mitch put together. I love his work and I hope you do too. 
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Mitch and his Mosaic Longhorn (Photo by Tommy Holt)
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The Mitch Collage!

The Mosaics

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Eraserhead
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Carlos Santana
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Jack White
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Prince
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Freddy Mercury
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David Bowie
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Holland Taylor and Ann Richards
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Malcom McDowell from A Clockwork Orange
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Barack Obama
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Johnny Depp as Edward Scissorhands
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Jack Nicholson from The Shining
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Michael Jackson
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Party Girl
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Octopus
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Longhorn (Photo by Tommy Holt)

The Paintings

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Previous Artists of the Month
The list below is either linked to the artist's webpage or to my review which has a link to their webpage. Either way, it would be awesome if you went to check out more of these artist's works. It's worth a look.
October 2014 - Adam Martinakis
November 2014 - Peter Gric
December 2014 - Lara Zankoul
January & February 2015 - James C. Lewis
March 2015 - Thomas Dodd
April 2015 - Nick Bibby
May 2015 - Morgan Sorne
June 2015 - Andrew Salgado
July 2015 - Seung Mo Park
August 2015 - Max Eremine
September 2015 - Javier Marin
October 2015 - Lee Krasner
November 2015 - Street Artists
December 2015 - Diane Arbus
January 2016 - Chuck Close
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February 2016 - Marion Costentin
March 2016 - Tom Shropshire
April 2016 - Nathan Neufeld
May 2016 - Alexander Yakovlev
June 2016 - Anne Von Freyburg​
July 2016 - Gil Bruvel
August 2016 - Woodrow Nash
September 2016 - I.M. Pei
October & November 2016 - Diego Fazio (DiegoKoi)

December 2016 - Katerina Belkina
January 2017 - Graffmatt

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