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1. Untitled (All Shelves), 2007, digital print on Somerset paper, 40” x 40”
2. Untitled (Green Shelves in Forced Perspective), 2007, digital print on
     Somerset paper, 30” x 30”
3. Untitled (Storage Cube), 2007, digital print on Somerset paper,
     30” x 30”
4. Untitled (Elevated Cabinet), 2007, digital print on Somerset paper,
     30” x 40”
5. Untitled (Organism of Storage), 2007, digital print on Somerset paper,
      40” x 30”
6. Black Storage with Lamp (Pottery Barn Spring 2006), 2006, collage on
      paper, color pencil, 30” x 44”
7. Black Storage with Lamp (West Elm Spring 2006), 2006, collage on
      paper, color pencil, graphite, 38” x 50”

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1. Repurpose, 2007, hand-recycled paper from previous paper
     installations, dimensions variable
      Installation at Tilt Gallery and Project Space
2. Repurpose, 2007, detail, 6” x 6” x 1/4”
3. Geodesic Storage, 2007, Coroplast with digital output on adhesive
      vinyl, 5’ x 5’ x 5’
4. Cut, Fold, Stack, Repeat, 2006, Coroplast with digital output on
      adhesive vinyl, dimensions variable
      Installation at Beverly Gallery
5. Cut, Fold, Stack, Repeat, 2006, detail,
      24” x 24” x 24” and 16” x 16” x 16” each
6. Prototype for Modular Storage Units, 2006, paper with digital output,
      dimensions variable, 3” x 3” each cube
7. Cabinet InFlux, 2006, wood, veneer, newsprint, 3’ x 3’ x 7-1/2’
8. Cabinet InFlux, 2006, interior view

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Contact Information
e-mail: lmutchle@temple.edu
www.lesliemutchler.com
Please contact artist for purchases, commissions, etc.

Artist Statement
My collages, digital drawings, and Coroplast installations, stem from an investigation into consumer desires to purchase an organized lifestyle. Using catalogue glossies from Crate & Barrel, Ikea, Pottery Barn, and others, I create a hybrid-form of organization that speaks about the many tastes and design influences surrounding our consumer culture. My research focuses on furniture that functions solely as storage; it contains one’s belongings as it continues to perpetuate a want of more. I am intrigued by such a device’s ability to eliminate an accumulation of belongings into one unified object and thus the accumulation’s ability to live under a minimal guise of solidarity.

I am designing hybrid storage systems- modular pieces that grow in response to collection, yet strive to minimize such expansion. This dichotomy is significant in my work: an ever-growing accumulation versus a minimizing design mentality. Currently, my digital drawings are composed from a reused and recycled vocabulary of ready-made furniture pieces (cut and catalogued from similar contemporary sources). By utilizing digital applications I am able to stretch, contort and warp these otherwise singular pieces into copious and complex images of architecture and landscape that challenge our expectations of accumulation and minimization on a contemporary and socioeconomic scale.

Education
2002 - 2004
Tyler School of Art, Elkins Park, PA
MFA, Printmaking

1998 - 2002
Kent State University, Kent, OH
BFA, Printmaking, minor in Art History

Professional Experience
2005-present
Visiting Assistant Professor, Foundations and Printmaking, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL

2005-2006
Illinois Arts Council Grant, Visiting Assistant Professor, 3D Foundations, Printmaking, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL

2005
Artist Lecture Series, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA

Emerson Visiting Critics and Curators, Studio Visit by Dominic Molon, Contemporary Museum of Art, St. Louis, MO

2004 - 2005
Adjunct Professor, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA

2004
Commercial Screenprinter, Harrielle Embroidery, Warminster, PA

Residencies
2007
Artist in Residence, Frans Masereel Centrum, Kasterlee, Belgium

Artist in Residence, The Ora Lerman Charitable Trust, Soaring Gardens, Meshoppen, PA

2006
Artist in Residence, The Ora Lerman Charitable Trust, Soaring Gardens, Meshoppen, PA

2002
Zygote Press, Cleveland, OH

Selected Exhibitions

Solo

2008
Reconsidered, Art Annex Gallery, Forest Park Community College, St. Louis, MO

2007
Studies in Veneer and Plastic, Philadelphia International Airport, Philadelphia, PA

Repurpose, Tilt Gallery and Project Space, Portland, OR

2006-2007
Studies in Organized Living, InLiquid at the Bride, Painted Bride Art Center, Philadelphia, PA

2006
Cut, Fold, Stack, Repeat, Beverly Gallery, St. Louis, MO

Shaping Storage, Exit Gallery, Kent, OH

Cabinet InFlux, Spareroom, Baltimore, MD

2004
Re-Collection, Temple Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Group

2008
Exhibition, Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA

Our Commodity: Sarah Frost, Juan William Chavez, Leslie Mutchler, Regional Arts Commission, St. Louis, MO

Papercuts, Falling Cow Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Showroom: Design Philadelphia, Crane Arts Building, Philadelphia, PA

Emergent Behavior, Martin Art Gallery of the Baker Center for the Arts, Muhlenberg, PA

Recent Work: Leslie Mutchler and Jason Urban, Snowflake Gallery, St. Louis, MO

2006
Intimate and Epic, Lurie Garden, Millennium Park, Chicago, IL

Selections from the Contemporary’s Flat Files, Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, MO

Go Forth & Multiply, Surplus Gallery, Carbondale, IL

Great Lakes Drawing Biennial, Ford Gallery, Eastern Michigan University, MI

2005
Pressing On, KSU Gallery, Kent, OH

Freeform, MBN Studios, Philadelphia, PA

Pulp: Paper Sculptures, Tyler Gallery, Elkins Park, PA

Draw-Drawing, Gallery 32, London Biennale, London, England

Valsalva Maneuver, The Ice Box, Crane Arts Building, Philadelphia, PA

2004
Juried MFA Exhibition, Ice Box Gallery, Crane Arts Building, Philadelphia, PA

Keep it in the Family, Tyler School of Art, Elkins Park, PA

Dimension, Mason Gross School of Art, NJ

Prints, Temple Gallery, Rome, Italy

2003
Art Formerly Known of Prints, Mount Mercy College, Cedar Rapids, IA

Preliminary Inventories, Zygote Press Gallery, Cleveland, OH

2002
Verbose, Icehouse Gallery, Akron, OH

Stuff, KSU Gallery, Kent, OH

Public Process, Spaces Gallery, Cleveland, OH

2001
Making Sense(ory), The Sculpture Center, Cleveland, OH

Off the Rack, KSU Gallery, Kent, OH

Art Show, Water Street Gallery, Kent, OH