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

Michael Filan’s work is in corporate, public and private collections, including those of Pfizer Corporation, Acadian Asset Management, Colgate Palmolive Corporation, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and 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; and the Nicholas F. Rizzo Gallery in Chatham, New Jersey. 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 Lobby Gallery of the Durst Corporation; the Mary Anthony Gallery; the Shirley Fitterman Gallery of City College University of New York; the Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition (BWAC); and Papergirl-Brooklyn.

Resume

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