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Michael Rey
Michael Rey (Sarasota, USA, 1979). Lives and works in Los Angeles, USA. He holds a BFA, Ringling School of Art and Design, Sarasota and a MFA from Art Center College of Design, Pasadena.
Michael Rey’s work has been the subject of international exhibitions most recently at Philip Martin Gallery, Los Angeles; SOUTHFIELD, Southfield; Office Baroque, Brussels and Zero, Milan. Institutional presentations include Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Malibu; Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard; Neuer Kunstverein Wien, Vienna, among others.
Michael Rey
Installation view, A Peg to Hang It On
White Flag Projects, St. Louis, USA, 2015
Michael Rey.
Michael Rey describes his artwork as drawing and sculptural wall works. He begins with a practice of automatic drawings—an open-ended method developed in the early 20th Century. This instinctive process results in objects that seem familiar, yet unrecognizable. Rey is interested in art as a place of tension and welcomes viewers’ psychological engagement with the work, whatever associations they may bring. He is interested in the human need to rationalize the inexplicable, the ability to ascribe features to abstraction. By design, Rey’s shapes can be seen as organic, mechanical, primordial, and futuristic at all once.
Dis Zutoume!, 2020, Oil on panel, 147.3 x 101.6 cm (58 x 40 in)
Sixob-Maccka, 2020, Oil on panel, 175.3 x 45.7 cm (69 x 18 in)
Aunilak-Fuppov, 2020, Oil on panel, 58.4 x 76.2 cm (23 x 30 in)
Klodafhass, 2020, Oil on panel, 58.4 x 109.2 cm (23 x 43 in)
Arqpono-Xkollett, 2020, Oil on panel, 66 x 182.9 cm (26 x 72 in)
