Michael Filan



Artist Statement

My painting process has become brushless. The gestures, drips and splashes that unite my work have become increasingly more intricate over time and address viewers in a language that is private, intense and consistently self-referential. Within the context of abstraction, I am constantly inventing a new vocabulary that employs gesture, form and notation. The intensity of color is used as a mystical guide that leads me through the creation process. Spacial planes are created on the painting's surface that offer resting points for viewers to pause before further embarking on a journey of exploration. -Michael Filan

Bio

The work of award-winning artist Michael Filan is in corporate, public and private collections, including those of Pfizer Corporation, Acadian Asset Management, Colgate Palmolive Corporation, Charlesbank Capital Partners, Liberty Mutual Insurance, Burns & Levinson LLP, Hines Development, Mintz Levin, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Borough of Manhattan Community College.

His paintings and monotypes have been featured in solo and group exhibitions in galleries and museums in the United States and in Europe, including the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum of Rutgers University; the Kunst Project in Berlin; the Koussevitzky Art Gallery of Berkshire Community College in Pittsfield Massachusetts; the JMS Gallery in Philadelphia; the Nicholas F. Rizzo Gallery in Chatham, New Jersey; and the Ely Center for Contemporary Art in New Haven, Connecticut.

Exhibitions In New York City include the Ethan Cohen Kube, Five Myles Gallery, the Denise Bilbro Gallery, Artists Space; the Bronx Museum of the Arts; the Atrium Gallery of LaGuardia Community College; the Landmark Gallery; the Mary Anthony Gallery; the Shirley Fitterman Gallery of City College University of New York; the Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition (BWAC); Papergirl-Brooklyn; the Atlantic Gallery; Deanna Evans Projects; the Trestle Gallery; La Bodega Gallery; and the Carter Burden Gallery; and the Durst Building organized by the nonprofit organization Chashama.

Resume

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