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The architect and academic Michael Abel brings his artistic practice to YveYANG Gallery this January with MUTT, an exhibition of new paintings that showcase his ability to refract the multifarious elements of his persona, weaving intimate significance into his portraits of sea life, and even his still lifes of mystical trinkets found on eBay.
Painted oil-on-linen in his studio atop a skyscraper, Abel’s works showcase experimentation. The artist surveys a wide span of art history and renovates techniques from all its different eras. The end results are fresh, profound, and wholly his own.
It begins with hair. The artist’s Mutt series offers self-portraits from behind that highlight a real genetic anomaly – the thin tuft of fur that extends a short length down the back of his neck. This is rendered even more strange by the artist’s decision to depict it upside down, so that it grows up to the base of his nape. Its texture is different from his other hai…
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The architect and academic Michael Abel brings his artistic practice to YveYANG Gallery this January with MUTT, an exhibition of new paintings that showcase his ability to refract the multifarious elements of his persona, weaving intimate significance into his portraits of sea life, and even his still lifes of mystical trinkets found on eBay.
Painted oil-on-linen in his studio atop a skyscraper, Abel’s works showcase experimentation. The artist surveys a wide span of art history and renovates techniques from all its different eras. The end results are fresh, profound, and wholly his own.
It begins with hair. The artist’s Mutt series offers self-portraits from behind that highlight a real genetic anomaly – the thin tuft of fur that extends a short length down the back of his neck. This is rendered even more strange by the artist’s decision to depict it upside down, so that it grows up to the base of his nape. Its texture is different from his other hai…
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