Vicky Brago-Mitchell, a Digital Artist & Photographer
by ArtisSpectrum Magazine


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Artist Vicky Brago-Mitchell melds a diversity of culture and thought into her series of fractal artwork. The work is empowered by both technology and formal insight. Using high-end graphics software and digital printing, she produces works that embody great precision, scale and abstraction. The fractal patterns found in her work are based on mathematical structures found in nature. Nautilus shapes, patterning, and symmetry are created with a digital finesse, but demonstrate artistic improvisation as well.

Autumn Song is set in deep blue hues with turquoise highlights. One may find green leaf patterns that appear to sweep from the ground upward to the sky. There is a great sense of motion, energy, and non-convention to the artwork. Because the history of her medium, digital art, is fairly new, Brago-Mitchell's work may be considered in a broader context in relation not only to other art history, but the translation of philosophy and culture into purely optic (or plastic, in the Bauhaus sense of the word) means. Her illusionism is a not wholly historical yet redemptive look into the dictates of contemporary spatial boundaries. Autumn Song is refreshingly free of cultural or political narrative. In the place of self and politics, she structures space from mathematical equations and digital color.

Primary 3 further explores the relationship of repetition units in the digital world to those in the physical world. With a myriad of gradient half-tone-like dots she creates what appears as a cosmic system of matter and attraction. Fiery reds and oranges share a figure ground relationship with a piercing blue ground. Brago-Mitchell's work is multi-layered and exhibits similar marks of process as could be found in physical painting. She reworks the images until the entire space is charged with a dazzling visual push pull.

Brago-Mitchell's influences are broad. After graduating from Stanford University, she lived in Japan and worked as a translator and photographer. After settling back in the United States, she married classical music composer John Mitchell. Currently, she lives and works in Los Angeles.

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