COMMENTARY
The fascinating thing about your work, Paul, is its extraordinary originality. I love your explanation of the motive and logic in what you are doing, and I understand your sense of fragmentation and reinterpretation. I believe that you are distilling your idea of this time and space from a very honest place in yourself. Consequently, there are those who respond to your work favorably because they can recognize your perception. In a crazy way your work, at least to me, reminds me of Alexander Calder's. His sculpture was strangely prehistoric and futuristic at the same time. He united time and space in mysterious ways.
Elaine S., Artist, New York, July 2009.
Paul Mindell's photo collages are magical visual explorations. Hundreds of images combine in a skillful flow of color, texture, and form, capturing both the mood and the substance of his landscapes and portraits.
Jeff Price, Gallery Owner/Director, Artist's Market Gallery, Norwalk, Connecticut, April 2006.
Mindell's Near Georgia's New Mexico depicts a desert like landscape with rich and dramatic coloring that borders on iridescent. The artist's use of collage adds a unique dynamic to the images somewhat reminiscent of David Hockney's photographs. And, it is the great detail of the landscape that draws the viewer into the image.
Bruce Silverstein, Juror, 22nd Annual Photography Exhibition, New Canaan Society for the Arts, in awarding First Place Prize, Professional Color Category, to Paul Mindell, February 2002. Bruce Silverstein is Director of the Silverstein Gallery, New York.
press
(201) Magazine, April 2010 issue.
Mixed Media: Creativity Abounds for 11 Bergen Artists (Click on the third photo for the article on Mindell)
http://www.201.net/issues/2010/04/features/People%20to%20Watch.story
The Stamford Advocate, January 10, 2010: Portrait of a Competition
http://www.stamfordadvocate.com/default/article/Portrait-of-a-Competition-449707.php
The Stamford Advocate, October 30, 2009: Mindell's Work On Display at National Portrait Gallery:
http://www.stamfordadvocate.com/default/article/Mindell-s-work-on-display-at-National-Portrait-197827.php
Smithsonian news release about the Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition – 2009 finalists:
http://newsdesk.si.edu/releases/npg_portrait_competition_release.htm
IMPACT: See page 3 Bergen news article titled “Art Professor’s Work to be Exhibited at Smithsonian"
http://www.bergen.edu/documents/PR/Impact/bcc-impact-nwsltr0909.pdf
National Portrait Gallery blog with article and photo showing the jurors judging the entries:
http://face2face.si.edu/my_weblog/2009/07/portrait-competition-finalists-and-shortlisted-artists-selected.html
Paramus Post news article, October 13, 2008, on Mindell as semi-finalist in the Smithsonian’s OBPC – 2009
http://www.paramuspost.com/article.php/20081212153615327
Bergen Community College news release about Mindell as semi-finalist, October 2008
http://www.bergen.edu/pages/2223.asp?PageID=661