Michael B. Gallagher
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Michael B. Gallagher born 1945, is an American painter whose work is associated with Abstract Illusionism
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In 1964-68 he received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Southern California
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In 1967 he was a Yale-Norfolk Summer School Grantee.
In 1970 he received a Master of Fine Arts from Yale University
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The Soho Weekly News: 1974 “On Art,” Frank, Peter.
“Michael Gallagher, whose paintings and drawings hang at Razor to the 14th, is not afraid to 'look like' several abstract expressionists, including de Kooning, Twombly, Goodnough, Richenburg, Held, and Knox Martin—and that's in one painting. Other pictures conjure up Hofmann, Tworkov, Gorky, Stella, et al. A varied ancestry, but Gallagher not only unites them successfully, he still emerges his own man. His drawings have more formal integrity and originality, they are more purely an expression of an aesthetic personality, while the paintings have that distinctly historical awareness to them. But their formulation, with its highly rhythmic choreographing of disparate forms and elements—straight edges, loops, squiggles, drips, grids, jagged strokes, calligraphic gestures, side by side parallel structures, interwoven forms, continuous and discontinuous lines—and especially their gala color, with baby blues jammed up against hot reds, chalky greens, bloody flesh tones, etc! ., make for fresh, vivid, and extremely likeable pictures. Some are a bit more sober and regular than this, but hardly less attractive for it.”
Arts Magazine
: 1981, “Michael Gallagher”, Freymann, Saxton.
"The strength of Michael Gallagher's work lies in its ability to engage our interest long after our first powerful encounter. Its meticulously crafted trompe l'oeil brushstrokes provide a seductive fanfare for the subtler strains that emerge as the initial blast subsides. The formal tension between control and abandon is generated both laterally, across the paintings' surface, and inwardly, from one receding level to the next. The brash, saturated strokes are anchored by the deeply rooted grids and framing devices at the primary or "deepest' surface of the strange space the paintings create. The charged, lyrical strokes echo and improvise on these."
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation
, Beverly Hills, CA
Butler Institute of American Art
, Youngstown, Ohio
Albany Museum of Art
, Georgia
University of Arizona
Museum of Art (Tucson, AZ), Tucson, AZ
Erie Art Museum
, Erie, PA
Smithsonian Institution
, Washington, D.C.
Wharton School of Business, Philadelphia, PA
Jewish Museum
, New York, NY
Bryant University
, Smithfield, RI
2008 “Reflections from the Artist's Eye,”Frederick Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA
2008 “Inaugural exhibit at Roseville's Blue Line,” Blue Line Gallery, Roseville, CA
2006 “Art and Illusion: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation,” Bakersfield Museum of Art, Bakersfield, CA
2005 “Made in California,”Frederick Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA
2004 “Sketchbook 88,” Jean-Michel Basquiat, George Braque, Marc Chagall, Dale Chihuly, Richard Diebenkorn, Ronald Davis, Richard Estes, Sam Francis, Helen Frankenthaler, Michael Gallagher, Keith Haring, Michael Heizer, David Hockney, Robert Indiana, Jasper Johns, Mark Kostabi, Alex Katz, Roy Lichtenstein, Mel Ramos, Robert Motherwell, Helmut Newton, Kenneth Noland, Pablo Picasso, Gerhard Richter, Susan Rothenberg, Todd Rundgren, Thomas Ruff, Larry Rivers, James Rosenquist, Julian Schnabel, Frank Stella, Donald Sultan, David Salle, Cy Twombly, Rufino Tamayo, William Wegman, Andy Warhol,” Galerie Sho Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
1999 Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY
1995 Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY
Belnapp, Susan, OC Metro Business: April, 2008, "The Art of Mike Gallagher".
Dalkey, Victoria, The Sacramento Bee: February 29, 2008, “Big space, big show Inaugural exhibit at Roseville's Blue Line suggests a bright future”.
Wylder, Greer, Greer's OC: November 21, 2007, "Art that Moves You".
Montgomery, Tiffany, Shop-Eat-Surf.com: ,November 14, 2007, "Surfing as Art,a Talk with Michael Gallagher".
Dr. Leda Cempellin. "Abstract Illusionism: A Perspective," Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities Honolulu: January 12–15, 2007, South Dakota State University.
Edward Lucie-Smith
.“American Art Now”: 1986, William Morrow and Company, Inc.
Peter Frank (art critic)
. "Abstract inflected by Illusion: a Recent History, in Breaking the Plane: Stuart M. Speiser Collection" (New York: Louis K. Meisel Gallery), 1984.
Jane K. Bledsoe. "Centric 9 – Trompe L’Oeil Abstraction', The University Art Museum,California State University, Long Beach, October 11-30th,1983.
Atkins, Robert. Architectural Digest: 1983, April, “Art to Intrigue the Eye”.
Abstract Illusionism
Abstract illusionism, a name coined by New York art gallery owner and author Louis K. Meisel, is an artistic movement that came into prominence in the United States during the mid 1970s...
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Life
Born and raised in Los Angeles, CaliforniaLos Angeles, California
Los Angeles , with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in California, USA and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of , and is located in Southern California...
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In 1964-68 he received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Southern California
University of Southern California
The University of Southern California is a private, not-for-profit, nonsectarian, research university located in Los Angeles, California, United States. USC was founded in 1880, making it California's oldest private research university...
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In 1967 he was a Yale-Norfolk Summer School Grantee.
In 1970 he received a Master of Fine Arts from Yale University
Yale University
Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...
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Career
Review of first one-man show in New York:The Soho Weekly News: 1974 “On Art,” Frank, Peter.
“Michael Gallagher, whose paintings and drawings hang at Razor to the 14th, is not afraid to 'look like' several abstract expressionists, including de Kooning, Twombly, Goodnough, Richenburg, Held, and Knox Martin—and that's in one painting. Other pictures conjure up Hofmann, Tworkov, Gorky, Stella, et al. A varied ancestry, but Gallagher not only unites them successfully, he still emerges his own man. His drawings have more formal integrity and originality, they are more purely an expression of an aesthetic personality, while the paintings have that distinctly historical awareness to them. But their formulation, with its highly rhythmic choreographing of disparate forms and elements—straight edges, loops, squiggles, drips, grids, jagged strokes, calligraphic gestures, side by side parallel structures, interwoven forms, continuous and discontinuous lines—and especially their gala color, with baby blues jammed up against hot reds, chalky greens, bloody flesh tones, etc! ., make for fresh, vivid, and extremely likeable pictures. Some are a bit more sober and regular than this, but hardly less attractive for it.”
Arts Magazine
Arts Magazine
Arts Magazine was monthly magazine devoted to fine art. It was established in 1926 and last published in 1992. It was originally called The Art Digest and was earlier published semi-monthly from October to May and monthly from June to September. It was later renamed Arts and finally, Arts Magazine...
: 1981, “Michael Gallagher”, Freymann, Saxton.
"The strength of Michael Gallagher's work lies in its ability to engage our interest long after our first powerful encounter. Its meticulously crafted trompe l'oeil brushstrokes provide a seductive fanfare for the subtler strains that emerge as the initial blast subsides. The formal tension between control and abandon is generated both laterally, across the paintings' surface, and inwardly, from one receding level to the next. The brash, saturated strokes are anchored by the deeply rooted grids and framing devices at the primary or "deepest' surface of the strange space the paintings create. The charged, lyrical strokes echo and improvise on these."
Public collections
Museums:The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation
Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation
The Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation is a non-profit arts foundation located in the Holmby Hills district of Los Angeles, in Southern California. modern and contemporary art works in the Frederick R...
, Beverly Hills, CA
Butler Institute of American Art
Butler Institute of American Art
The Butler Institute of American Art, located on Wick Avenue in Youngstown, Ohio, United States, was the first museum dedicated exclusively to American art. Established by local industrialist and philanthropist Joseph G. Butler, Jr., the museum has been operating pro bono since 1919...
, Youngstown, Ohio
Albany Museum of Art
Albany Museum of Art
The Albany Museum of Art is located in Albany, Georgia, U.S. The museum is a non-profit organization governed by a 28 member elected board of directors.-History:...
, Georgia
University of Arizona
University of Arizona
The University of Arizona is a land-grant and space-grant public institution of higher education and research located in Tucson, Arizona, United States. The University of Arizona was the first university in the state of Arizona, founded in 1885...
Museum of Art (Tucson, AZ), Tucson, AZ
Erie Art Museum
Erie Art Museum
Erie Art Museum is an art museum in Erie, Pennsylvania with a collection of over 7,000 objects, including American ceramics, Tibetan paintings, Indian bronzes, contemporary baskets, and many other categories...
, Erie, PA
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Institution
The Smithsonian Institution is an educational and research institute and associated museum complex, administered and funded by the government of the United States and by funds from its endowment, contributions, and profits from its retail operations, concessions, licensing activities, and magazines...
, Washington, D.C.
Wharton School of Business, Philadelphia, PA
Jewish Museum
Jewish Museum
Jewish Museum may refer to:Australia* Jewish Museum of Australia, Melbourne, VictoriaAustria* Jewish Museum ViennaCzech Republic* Jewish Museum of PragueDenmark* Danish Jewish Museum, CopenhagenGeorgia...
, New York, NY
Bryant University
Bryant University
Bryant University is a private university located in Smithfield, Rhode Island, U.S., that grants the degrees of bachelor of arts, bachelor of science, and master's degrees in business, taxation and accounting. Until August 2004, it was known as Bryant College...
, Smithfield, RI
Exhibitions
2008-9 “Art & Illusion,”Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA2008 “Reflections from the Artist's Eye,”Frederick Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA
2008 “Inaugural exhibit at Roseville's Blue Line,” Blue Line Gallery, Roseville, CA
2006 “Art and Illusion: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation,” Bakersfield Museum of Art, Bakersfield, CA
2005 “Made in California,”Frederick Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA
2004 “Sketchbook 88,” Jean-Michel Basquiat, George Braque, Marc Chagall, Dale Chihuly, Richard Diebenkorn, Ronald Davis, Richard Estes, Sam Francis, Helen Frankenthaler, Michael Gallagher, Keith Haring, Michael Heizer, David Hockney, Robert Indiana, Jasper Johns, Mark Kostabi, Alex Katz, Roy Lichtenstein, Mel Ramos, Robert Motherwell, Helmut Newton, Kenneth Noland, Pablo Picasso, Gerhard Richter, Susan Rothenberg, Todd Rundgren, Thomas Ruff, Larry Rivers, James Rosenquist, Julian Schnabel, Frank Stella, Donald Sultan, David Salle, Cy Twombly, Rufino Tamayo, William Wegman, Andy Warhol,” Galerie Sho Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
1999 Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY
1995 Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY
Additional sources
Thorpe, Carole, Westways: May June, 2008, "Art that Moves You".Belnapp, Susan, OC Metro Business: April, 2008, "The Art of Mike Gallagher".
Dalkey, Victoria, The Sacramento Bee: February 29, 2008, “Big space, big show Inaugural exhibit at Roseville's Blue Line suggests a bright future”.
Wylder, Greer, Greer's OC: November 21, 2007, "Art that Moves You".
Montgomery, Tiffany, Shop-Eat-Surf.com: ,November 14, 2007, "Surfing as Art,a Talk with Michael Gallagher".
Dr. Leda Cempellin. "Abstract Illusionism: A Perspective," Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities Honolulu: January 12–15, 2007, South Dakota State University.
Edward Lucie-Smith
Edward Lucie-Smith
John Edward McKenzie Lucie-Smith is a British writer, poet, art critic, curator, broadcaster and author of exhibition catalogues.-Biography:Lucie-Smith was born in Kingston, Jamaica, moving to the United Kingdom in 1946...
.“American Art Now”: 1986, William Morrow and Company, Inc.
Peter Frank (art critic)
Peter Frank (art critic)
Peter Frank is the Senior Curator at the Riverside Art Museum and an art critic for Angeleno Magazine. He is an occasional contributor to The Huffington Post. Until July 9, 2008, a long-time critic for LA Weekly...
. "Abstract inflected by Illusion: a Recent History, in Breaking the Plane: Stuart M. Speiser Collection" (New York: Louis K. Meisel Gallery), 1984.
Jane K. Bledsoe. "Centric 9 – Trompe L’Oeil Abstraction', The University Art Museum,California State University, Long Beach, October 11-30th,1983.
Atkins, Robert. Architectural Digest: 1983, April, “Art to Intrigue the Eye”.
External links
- http://www.mgallagher.com/
- http://www.metaboardz.com/
- http://www.oceanfineart.com/