Main Gallery
Transfiguration
By Kevin Mutch
June 19 - August 1 2026
Opening Reception July 10, 7 - 9 pm
Image Credits: Courtesy of the artists.
About the Exhibition
Transfiguration is a selection from a large group of digital collages I’ve been working on since 1993, mainly to do with the relationships between art history, popular culture, and technology.
Originally a painter and strongly influenced by Neo-Conceptualism, I had decided to use digital tools to avoid the constraints of making unique objects, expand the formal possibilities of my work, and compensate for a worsening disability in my hands (essential tremor from Dystonia).
Over the last 30-something years I’ve produced the images as open edition multiples, paintings, and multimedia objects combining various types of printmaking, photography, drawing, and painting.
The pieces in Transfiguration include the entire range of media I’ve used over that time, from purely digital printmaking to, most recently, purely analog work made using pencil and oil paint.
In any case, I still think of myself as a Conceptualist, so I’ve included short illustrated texts for many of the pieces which try to tell the history and stories behind them.
Thanks, and let me know if you have any questions.
About the Artist
Kevin Mutch is a visual artist and graphic novelist. Originally from Winnipeg, he received an MFA in painting from the University of Victoria in 1990. He showed his paintings and drawings in the Canadian “parallel gallery” scene in the early 1990’s, with one person shows at both Ace Art and Plug-In Gallery in Winnipeg, and Access Gallery in Vancouver.
In the mid 1990’s Mutch moved to the United States, where he showed his work in Los Angeles, Detroit, and New York City (including a two person show in Manhattan with fellow Canadian Roland Brener), as well as in Canada and Europe. In 2004 he co-founded ArtLexis gallery, which was an exhibition space for experimental digital art in Brooklyn.
In the mid 1990’s Mutch moved to the United States, where he showed his work in Los Angeles, Detroit, and New York City (including a two person show in Manhattan with fellow Canadian Roland Brener), as well as in Canada and Europe. In 2004 he co-founded ArtLexis gallery, which was an exhibition space for experimental digital art in Brooklyn.
He has been nominated twice for Juno awards – and won a Casby award – for his work as art director for Canadian rock band Crash Test Dummies. From 2007 to 2017, Mutch served as the lead digital artist for one of the world’s largest music and entertainment companies at their Manhattan headquarters, working on projects for many of the world’s most well-known musicians.
He has continued to work in this field since returning to Canada with his family in 2018, working on projects for artists such as Bob Dylan, AC/DC, Bruce Springsteen, Beyonce, Adele and many more.
Mutch won a Xeric award for his first graphic novel, Fantastic Life, and his work has been excerpted in Houghton Mifflin’s The Best American Comics and in Visual Storytelling: An Illustrated Reader from Oxford University Press. His three graphic novels have all been published in both the US and France.
He has taught painting and digital art at art schools in Canada and the US, and has written art criticism for a number of journals and magazines including Border Crossings and the Georgia Straight. He is also a co-founder of Lucid, a contemporary art space in his current home city of Hamilton, Ontario.
