bio/cv
Statement:
My work as a multiple disciplinary artist draws influence from rural southern culture and contemporary urban subcultures. I have developed a system of gathering that allows hybridizing and remixing the contents into a multilingual dialect that endows ordinary and rejected objects with historic and spiritual powers. By reworking and mashing up iconography the works began to establish a new identity. An identity with possibilities of life to come, giving voice to the forgotten and demonstrating significant resiliency and strength that offers hope and possibility. The works allude to conditions both physical and psychological. This work is a proclamation of perseverance and remembrance.
CV:
Education:
1999 Michi – B. A. Fine Arts
University of North Alabama
Selected Solo Exhibitions:
2010
Navigating this American Landscape
2009
Fear Kills Pursuit: A mighty Roar and the magic inside , Beep Beep Gallery , Atlanta, GA
2008
Comfort Kills Pursuit: Fight!!! , EyeDrum, Atlanta, GA
2005
MICHI: #1 SELLOUT, Apache Café Atlanta, GA
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2011
TindelMichi: Relics, Cobb Marietta Museum of Art , Marietta GA
2010
Pure/Surrender , Beep Beep Gallery , Atlanta GA
2009
Green Works , The Art Dept , Atlanta , GA
2008
Tindel vs Michi , The Art Dept. , Atlanta, GA
Sons of the South, Rabbit Hole Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Coast to Coast Butter Toast, Art Murmur Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Br’er, Beep Beep Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2007
Art Papers Auction, Mason Murer Gallery, Atlanta, GA
La Calaveras Pop, Foundation One, Decatur, GA
2006
Art Basel Scion Installation 3, Miami, FL
Redneck Graffiti, Castleberry Hills, Atlanta, GA
NYC Redneck Graffiti, Jack the Pelican, Brooklyn, NY
Grants and Awards:
2011 Studio Artist In Resident , The Contemporary Art Center , Atlanta , GA
2010 Idea Capitalist Grant recipient
BeltLine Atlanta Grant recipient
2008 Forward Arts Foundation, finalist
2005 Forward Arts Foundation, finalist
Public works and Projects:
2011 Waterworks, The Passing of Knowledge Project, Atlanta, GA
2010 Coexist:Bio mimicry Project, Atlanta, GA
White Gold Project, Atlanta, GA
Living Walls, Say it Loud Project, Atlanta, GA
Bibliography:
Cullum,Jerry. “Artist question Southern Art? at Georgia State’s Welch Gallery”, 2010
www.burnaway.com , July 20, 2010 < http://www.burnaway.org/2010/07/artists-question-southern-art-at-georgia-states-welch-gallery/ >
Laura Moore. Art on the Beltline Project explores issues of gentrification. 2010
www.burnaway.com , May 20, 2010 < http://www.burnaway.org/2010/05/art-on-the-beltline-project-coexist-explores-issues-of-gentrification/ >
Abernathy,Jeremy. Declaration(s) of Independence: Two Exhibitions worthy of Comparison. 2009
www.burnaway.com , July 2, 2009 < http://www.burnaway.org/2009/07/declarations-of-independence-two-exhibitions-worthy-of-comparison/ >
Abernathy,Jeremy. “Comfort Kills: I will”. 2008
http://ghostmap.blogspot.com, April 11, 2008 < http://ghostmap.blogspot.com/2008/04/comfort-kills-i-will.html >
“Country Crunk”
Atlanta Magazine, Kimberly Turner, March 2007.
“La Calaveras Pop”
Creative Loafing, Debbie Michaud, February 7, 2007
“Know Their Names”
The New York Sun, Johanna Lenander, September 12, 2005
“Double Trouble: Two artists find new inspiration in collaboration”
Creative Loafing, Felicia Feaster, September 2, 2004.
Works in Collection
King & Spalding, Atlanta, GA
Scion (Toyota Motor Corporation), Los Angeles, CA
MetroPark USA Inc; Atlanta, GA
CW Network,
The Jones Group, Atlanta, GA
Various Private collections
Residencies
2011 Studio Artist, The Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA
