Pairings #1 [Joan Mitchell + Pat Wilson]

This coupling represents the beginning of the Pairings series: strong audio/visual duos brought together by their comparable energy.

Joan Mitchell's Ici (1992) and Pat Wilson's Bop Girl (1983)

photo: artnet

Joan Mitchell [February 12, 1925 – October 30, 1992] was an Aquarius

a second-generation abstract expressionist the daughter of a dermatologist [father] the daughter of a poet mother Joan enjoyed skating and diving as a child and Paris

Joan painted Ici just before she died Ici meaning here ici for Ici means the St Louis Art Museum ici for Joan is the American Hospital of Paris and lung cancer and loving Matisse

photo: NY Times

Pat Wilson was born on the 11th of June in 1948 which makes her a seventy one year old Gemini she played finger cymbals on Skyhooks' excellent song Ego Is Not a Dirty Word and married Ross Wilson aka Daddy Cool after which

she unfortunately became a derivative and wrote a go-set advice column under the name mummy cool Daddy Cool was famous and Ross wrote her Bop Girl then Pat was famous too

number 14 famous which is enough to mean her wikipedia biography is divided into three: early years bop girl and personal life

photo: wikipedia

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