Maggie Michael Explained

Maggie Michael (born 1979) is an American painter.Born in Milwaukee, Michael has spent much of her career in Washington, D.C.[1] A 1996 graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, from which she received a BFA, with honors, she received her MA from San Francisco State University in 2000 and her MFA from American University in 2002. She has received numerous awards during her career, including a grant from the Joan Mitchell Foundation in 2004,[2] the same year in which she was given a Young Artist Grant by the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities; she has also worked with the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.[3] Michael is married to the sculptor Dan Steinhilber.[4] She has served on the faculty of the Corcoran College of Art and Design.[5]

Work

Stylistically, Michael's work is derived in part from Pop Art and in part from Abstract Expressionism.[6] Her 2003 painting Genie is currently in the collection of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden,[7] while her 2005 painting Anchor, in latex, ink, oil enamel, and spray paint on canvas, is owned by the Smithsonian American Art Museum.[8] The same museum received her 2004 painting Crest, formerly in the collection of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, when that institution's collection was disbursed after its closing.[9] Another painting from the same museum, Untitled (Helmet) of 2006, was transferred to the National Museum of Women in the Arts.[10] Her work has been also shown at the American University Museum .[11] [12]

"Michael paints in series, such as the recent “Perfect X,” that are characterized more by visual motifs than different techniques. Nearly all of her pictures contrast hard-edged shapes, sometimes stenciled, with looser gestures, and employ a variety of pigments, including ink, acrylic, latex and spray paint. These liquids and more flow through the American University Museum's “A Phrase Hung in Midair as If Frozen,” which surveys Michael's output since 2002, the year she earned an MFA at AU."[13]

Michael seeks to emphasize paint’s fluidity, by apply paint pigment so thickly that it becomes sculptural. This is can be seen through one of her earliest pieces, the “Clones”. She uses single-color pools of latex paint were poured onto panels, then shaped into near-identical blobs. The Washington Post calls her work, "playful yet spartan, with an austerity not evident in the other pictures, even quiet recent ones".

Her work is included in the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum.[14]

Awards

Exhibitions

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Maggie Michael. Smithsonian American Art Museum. 22 May 2018.
  2. Web site: Artist Programs » Artist Grants. Foundation. Joan Mitchell. joanmitchellfoundation.org. en. 2019-03-06.
  3. Web site: Maggie Michael Biography – Maggie Michael on artnet. www.artnet.com. 22 May 2018.
  4. Web site: How is Artist Maggie Michael Preparing to Amaze Washington DC's Art World?. 22 May 2018.
  5. Web site: Fine Art Faculty Maggie Michael to begin G Fine Art 10th Anniversary Season - Corcoran School of the Arts & Design - The George Washington University. corcoran.gwu.edu. 22 May 2018.
  6. Web site: Not all right angles in 'Geometrix: Line, Form, Subversion'. Mark. Jenkins. 4 March 2016. 22 May 2018. www.washingtonpost.com.
  7. Web site: Search Result Details - Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden - Smithsonian. 22 May 2018.
  8. Web site: Anchor. Smithsonian American Art Museum. 22 May 2018.
  9. Web site: Smithsonian American Art Museum - Corcoran. www.corcoran.org. 22 May 2018.
  10. Web site: National Museum of Women in the Arts - Corcoran. www.corcoran.org. 22 May 2018.
  11. Web site: Maggie Michael: A Phrase Hung in Midair as if Frozen. American University. 22 May 2018.
  12. Web site: "Maggie Michael: A Phrase Hung in Midair as if Frozen" at the American University Museum, Reviewed. 12 February 2016 . 22 May 2018.
  13. News: Not all right angles in 'Geometrix: Line, Form, Subversion'. Washington Post. en. 2019-03-13.
  14. Web site: Maggie Michael Smithsonian American Art Museum . americanart.si.edu.

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