Schorr has become highly respected for his mural work, especially his urban art interpretation of cars. His “Da Race” mural series has been displayed at more than 100 locations worldwide, including the painting ‘Ice Cream Truck’, currently on view and part of the permanent collection at the Detroit Institute of Arts. In 2017, Schorr painted ‘Da Race to NYC’ live at Rockefeller Center for Ferrari’s 70th anniversary, after creating the ‘Da Race to the East’ live in Hong Kong’s Lan Kwai Fong in 2015. Schorr has also muraled ‘Da Race’ in Grand Rapids and Vermont after commissions by GM and the Detroit Riverfront Conservancy.
“The curators of the Acoustic Art project were highly impressed with his artwork”, says Karina Deboar, Product Director of Acoufelt. “I think it is the way that his subjects connect with people in an emotive way – they are fun and clearly representative of urban street art in its most literal form.”
His murals have been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Huffington Post, The Miami Herald, ArtNews, Details, MSNBC, WCBS, UPN 9, MSG Networkon NY1’s New Yorker of the Week, Fox 5’s Good Day New York and in the movie “New York, I Love You”.
The work of Mitchell Schorr has also been observed by leading academics, particularly his mural work. In “On the Wall: Four Decades of Community Murals in New York City” (University Press of Mississippi, 2009), authors Janet Braun-Reinitz, Amy Goodman, Jane Weissman write:
“People enter, rather than view, Schorr’s faraway landscapes, which literally envelop New York’s distinctly urban parks (p. 163)… Schorr, not content with one wall, looks at the total site. Every surface, fence, and pavement are potential components in his grand environmental schemes (p. 164).”
The multi-surface holistic approach that Schorr brings to his mural work has a clear parallel with the Acoufelt approach to Making Quiet™. Like Mitchell’s holistic approach to his murals, Acoufelt aren’t constrained by any surface, looking at all surfaces as a potential means of absorbing unwanted noise.
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