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Michael’s primary subjects are Western Colorado and Utah desert scenes. He paints his smaller pieces on location.
Larger landscapes are based on his outside sketches, abstracts on interesting textures and potent shapes in Nature.
Michael’s more recent “fluid landscapes” are a synthesis of his landscapes and abstracts, and were central to his successful shows at art galleries in his area of Colorado, including the Art Base in Basalt, and the Red Brick Center for the Arts in Aspen, Colorado.
Many suggest that his paintings instill peace.
Michael hopes they offer a brief refuge from our increasingly disturbing political situation.
He has shown his paintings all over the Roaring Fork Valley of Colorado in galleries and community venues. Also, he does commissioned work. A resident of Old Snowmass, Colorado, Michael is also a facilitator and mediator, was an elected county commissioner from ’75 to ’85, and worked for Rocky Mountain Institute from ’83 to 2016.
For fifty years, Michael has been fortunate to live in the mountains of Colorado, each year more profoundly enthralled by the magic of the natural world. Many of Michael’s paintings pursue that magic, reflecting time-honored schools of landscape painting. Other canvases spin into abstraction, many interpreting natural phenomena, especially rock textures and patterns. Occasionally, Michael has experimented with paintings that accentuated, even exaggerated the sinuous shapes in nature; some obvious, others obscure.
Since early 2019, and more so during the covid isolation, he has explored this idea more deeply, which is reflected in his Fluid Landscapes paintings. Early twentieth-century Canadian painters, Emily Carr and Franklin Carmichael inspired Michael to expand his work in this area — now his primary focus.
Despite the apparent serenity and immutability of Michael’s landscapes, the viewer may detect the feeling, as the artist clearly does, that these beloved scenes are fragile and in jeopardy. Michael has been an advocate for these places for his entire adult life.
Michael’s primary subjects are Western Colorado and Southeast Utah. He paints his smaller pieces on site. Larger landscapes are based on his outside sketches, his abstracts on interesting textures and potent shapes in Nature. He works primarily in oil, occasionally in acrylic, especially for abstracts. Supports include stretched canvas, board, canvas on board, burlap, and wallboard mud with sand.
Michael has lived in the Roaring Fork valley of Colorado since 1970. He is a conflict-resolution practitioner and facilitator, was a county commissioner from ’75 to ’85, and worked for Rocky Mountain Institute from ’83 to 2016.
Galleries
2020/22 Jones Gallery, Kansas City MO
2021/22 The Art Base, Basalt
2020/21 R Gallery, Boulder
2020 Dragonfly Blue Gallery, Taos NM
2010-20 Toklat Gallery, Basalt (and earlier in Ashcroft)
2014/15 809 Gallery, Glenwood Springs
2001 Redstone Art Center
2009 Aspen Artists Cooperative, Aspen Highlands
1999 Woody Creek Art Studio, Woody Creek
1995 Upper Edge Gallery, Aspen
1968 A Houston gallery which name he can’t recall
Corporate Collections
PARC Aspen, Aspen CO
Rocky Mountain Institute, Basalt CO
Valley View Hospital, Glenwood Springs CO
Community Venues
Many exhibitions, Including juried shows, for thirty years:
Aspen Art Museum, Aspen Co
Red Brick Center for the Arts, Aspen CO
Aspen Chapel Gallery, Aspen Co
Snowmass Chapel, Snowmass Village CO
First Bank, Carbondale CO
Basalt Library, Basalt CO
Snowmass Club Villas, Snowmass Village CO
Carbondale Arts, Carbondale (including a solo show in ‘05)
Aspen Valley Land Trust, art showings
Wilderness Workshop, artist in residence
Redstone Art Foundation Labor Day Art Festivals
World Cup window exhibit, Aspen CO
Aspen Center for Environmental Studies exhibit, Aspen CO
Glenwood Springs Art Festival, Glenwood Springs CO
Mining Museum, Leadville CO
Community Bank, Basalt CO
Alpine Bank, Snowmass Village CO
Vectra Bank, Aspen CO
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