Featured Artist Mitch Greer

Artist Mitch Greer presents a collection of dreamlike paintings created in oil and digital mediums. Learn more by visiting his website.

 

 

I’m Mitch, a transcendentalist rooted in urban life, working from a small studio in Northern California. My practice is an investigation into the evolving nature of human consciousness through time. In this sense, many of my creative periods feel like epochs—distinct, transformative, and shaped by memory.

 

 

I’m interested in those deep experiences when time stretches out unexpectedly—through reverie, recollection, or the quiet surrealism of daily life. My work explores this aspect of consciousness, often in tension with the seeming banality of suburban or contemporary existence, yet always tied to the infinite landscape of the human mind.

 

 

I’m media-agnostic. I was trained in analog craft at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the San Francisco Art Institute, and I taught myself digital tools along the way.

 

 

That foundation, though rooted in traditional form, always pulled me into deep time—where meaning hovers like a flower with mechanical wings, a hybrid born of both nature and the lab. The methods I use may shift, but the core remains a devotion to the sacred, strange, and symbolic.

 

 

Over the last two years, I’ve advanced significantly—both in form and clarity. I’ve received some recognition, enough to confirm that I’m not alone in these investigations. I live more like an art monk than a professional strategist—dedicated to charting the symbolic, the historic, and the deeply human across disciplines and timelines.

 

 

I also write. My stories are held in the Flaxman Library at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and in the private collection of research libraries. Film is a central part of my practice too—at times I feel more like an experimental filmmaker than a painter. Yet I always return to the traditional forms: drawing, painting, sculpture, and written language. These are not just mediums—they’re anchors in time.

 

 

In many ways, I think of myself as an artist-architect. I build systems, experimental structures that bridge the analog and the digital, the mythic and the real. My studio practice is divided between physical studies and technological exploration, each informing the other. I treat projects almost like films: conceptually driven, episodic, and seasonal—aligned to natural rhythm, to symbolic thresholds, to shifts in my perception.

 

 

Art is sacred to me, really all life is, and I’m grateful for every day I have the strength and resolve to explore, think and make work and share with the world in which we live. I feel we are brought to our particular time where the pursuit of knowledge feels so limitless, and I’m grateful for every moment I experience the world as a living being.

 

 

Art is both outside of me and inside of me, pushing my limits in both knowledge of the world and understanding it through both structured inquiry and transcendental perception, I feel like for the most part we barely grasp just what being human is, and the best of art to me is a way of showing parts of ourselves especially when things fall apart, and we discover in those moments the absolute luminosity of the human soul.

 

Mitch Greer invites you to follow on Facebook, Instagram, X and Behance. 

 

 

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