Current Exhibition
MICHELE MIKESELL
THE THINGS THAT ARE
WRITTEN ON WATER
March 22 - May 4
Alan Avery Art Company is pleased to open the 2024 season with Filipino American Artist Michele Mikesell, "The Things That Are Written On Water."
Michele born in Alabama, a resident of Texas, splits her time living between the United States and Spain. Her medium is primarily painting. It has been said that her figures are painted with the light and sensitivity of the master artists Vermeer and Rembrandt, as if they were painted by candlelight, many centuries ago that have been juxtaposed into a background of modern expressionism, bordering color field abstraction.
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Michele says the inspiration for this body of work came from an incredible trip to Istanbul: She states: I've seen many places, but none of them have hit me quite like Istanbul. The pattern and design of the city went straight to core.
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Unconstrained by a specific story or theme, these paintings cumulatively reference Istanbul in literal ways such as the Bosphorus, the feral cats and dogs that are treated like the important citizens and celebration of the visually rich colors that saturate the patterns and spaces. Subjects, sometimes portrayed with a sense of humor, find themselves in transitional life moments, sleepless nights, skinny dipping, and with extraordinarily large feet.
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Michele works are represented in public and private collections throughout the United States and internationally. Most recently Mikesell was featured in a solo exhibition at The Ardmore Museum of Art in Oklahoma.