Michael Angel

^{“The works are voyeuristic but ultimately become
incredibly intimate. Through my process, I begin with impressions, controlled
moments that give perspective with a specific point of view. I then either
scrape away or leave a minimal presence of the subject and its environment, this
is the beginning of the conversation.”}

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^{Michael
Angel is an American-Australian artist. He was born in Melbourne, Australia,
and moved to New York City, United States in 2001.

Michael
Angel is a self-taught artist, who started painting at the age of 5. Influenced
by movements such as impressionism, cubism, and expressionism- Angel
focuses his eye on the human form and surrounding environments, re-assembling and distorting his
subjects and figures in the process.

Angel
began his career in Fashion design forging an innovative path as a textile
designer with his use of digital print at the early days of the medium, shortly
after he launched and ran his own namesake label in New York in the years 2007-
2014, which focused solely on digital print using his own original art. Angel
would later incorporate this expansive body of digital artwork by using these
textiles in his
artwork.

Angel
then turned his focus solely on painting to begin Series 1 in East Hampton, NY.
Influenced by artists such as Egon Schiele, Edvard Munch, Francis Bacon, Willem de Kooning, Gerhard Richter and Mark Rothko. Angel’s influences can be seen
through his unique blend of
gestural abstraction and figuration.

Angel’s show titled ‘Home’ in January 2018, would be his
first major step into figuration. The exhibition explored the subject of
domesticity through a series of eight new paintings, portraits that were
primarily inspired from photographs dating back to his youth. Although far from
the total abstraction of some of his earlier works, the canvas scraping of his
palette knife technique is still present and serves here to obscure and distort
in order to distance the figures and unsettle a narrative of comforting home
life. The screen-like grid that recalls his earlier
work at the forefront of digital textile design, it is the figures themselves
that have a distinct layered impression that gives the viewer a clearer
understanding of what he has felt during the
process, being able to express the emotion of both subject and artist.}

MICHAEL ANGEL

Paintings

Paintings / Landscapes

Paintings/ Portraits

Paintings / Berlin