About

Mimi Pinnow (b. Greenwood, IN) is a Long Island City, NY based visual artist. She holds an MFA from the LeRoy E. Hoffberger School of Painting  at MICA (2020) and has exhibited her work across the U.S., including in  New York, Maryland, and the Midwest. Her practice explores the intimate  connections between the body, memory, the natural world, and interior domestic spaces through organic materials and forms. Pinnow creates environments that evoke impermanence, nostalgia, and the uncanny. Her work is included in private collections, including that of Indiana University Bloomington. Most recently in Brooklyn, NY, she co-curated a multimedia exhibition titled Doors of Perception at Botanica Grove Gallery and showed work in a group show titled It is About Truth.

 

Mimi Pinnow’s work brings forth the uncanny with imagery tied to theatrical baroque paintings, Baltimore, New York, and midwest interiors and the dioramas she builds of them, as well as light recorded through cyanotype ghostly images printed in her studio. These frameworks allow her to create spaces for the viewer’s emotions to swim and lurch due to a conversation between the familiar and ephemeral. Oil paint opens her world of color into the otherworldly while remaining connected to the tactile ripples and sheen of bodily experience. She hopes that her paintings resonate with the viewer in their emotional landscapes and provide a space for exploration of emotion.