With a huge thank you to Producer/Director Peter Hartel, the complete broadcast length documentary film, Work at Hand, Michael K. Paxton, can now be accessed on the film’s website ttps://www.workathandfilm.com and viewed online as a vimeo link.
Pearl Fincher Museum of Fine Art Group Exhibition
I am pleased to be included in the forthcoming group exhibitions in support of Art Rosenbaum at the Pearl Fincher Museum of Fine Art in the Huston area. I have know Art and Margo since 1977 in Athens at The University of Georgia. I will have an older work from 1994 titled, The Sorghum Drinker in the show. The exhibition was organized by Gallery Director Lee Matney of the Linda Matney Gallery and the title of the exhibition is, Three Excellences of Culture: Painting, Music, the Work of Art Rosenbuam and Friends. The exhibition opens September 24th and uns through January 14, 2023.
Mediating Between the Senses
Mediating Between the Senses exhibition was on view at MU Gallery Chicago where my newest large-scale paintings were presented from April 8th through April 30th. Shown here is me giving an Artist Talk in front of one of these works Limpid.
MU Gallery Chicago Exhibition Announced
I am very happy to announce that I have joined the impressive list of artist of MU Gallery in Chicago and will be featured there in a two person exhibition title Mediating Between the Senses opening April 8th. A big thank you to Director of Operations Lee Mosser for his support of my large-scale paintings.
Virtual Artist Talk for Interpolations
Virtual Artist Talk for Interpolations presented by the Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL March 4, 2021 Introduction by Paula Danoff, President and CEO and Moderated by Cara Feeney, Director of Exhibitions. Click here for artist talk.
Interpolations One-Person Exhibition at EAC
I am pleased to announce that my one-person exhibition Interpolations: New, Large-Scale Work By Michael K. Paxton that is to be presented by the Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL in the main floor gallery space is set to open February 27, 2021 and run through April 4, 2021. A special thank you to both Paula Danoff, President and CEO and Cara Feeney, Director of Exhibitions. More information along with a Virtual Studio and Artist Talk click here.
WVPBS to Broadcast Film June 14, 2020
I am excited to announce that West Virginia Public Broadcasting HD will air the documentary film Work at Hand, Michael K. Paxton, Sunday June 14th at 7:00 pm (ET) across the entire state. Special thanks to Director of Programming Eddie Isom and his staff at WVPBS. For more information and program schedule.
Evanston Art Center Virtual Studio Visit →
I am very honored to have been featured by the Evanston Art Center in a Zoom Virtual Studio Visit and Artist Talk for their social media platforms. Introduced by President and CEO of the Center, Paula Danoff and interviewed by Cara Feeney, Director of Exhibitions, who also did a very nice job of editing this video. I look with excitement to my one-person exhibition of new work that has been pushed forward due to the virus shutdown and slated to open February 27, 2021. To view the video and more information.
Raw Reckoning Catalog In Library Collection
The Columbia College of Chicago Library has added to their collections the exhibition catalog for Raw Reckoning from my one-person exhibition presented at the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art in Chicago this past summer. Curator for the exhibition Adrienne Kochman wrote a wonderful essay on my work and I also added a short essay.
Work at Hand Screening CAA Chicago →
The documentary film, Work at Hand, Michael K. Paxton, will be screened February 13, 2020 at the Hokin Lecture Hall room 109 of Columbia College Chicago, 623 South Wabash Avenue, first floor, from 6:30-8:15 pm. This is an Offsite Event for the College Art Association Annual Convention being held in Chicago, IL this year. Both Director/Producer Peter Hartel and artist Michael K. Paxton will be in attendance, This screening is free and open to the public. For more information on the film or filmmakers https://www.workathandfilm.com/
What is Painting? Essay Published
Thanks to Norbert Marszalek for asking me to write an essay to answer the big question What is Painting? in his on going spotlight on painters and their thoughts. My essay can be found here https://whatispainting.com/michael-k-paxton/
Gallery Talk Raw Reckoning
Michael will be having an Artist Talk Sunday, July 28th from 1 to 3pm in connected with his current one-person exhibition Raw Reckoning now on view at the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art in Chicago. He will be joined by Dr. Robert Cohen, Professor of Medicine and Director of the Occupational Lung Disease Program at Northwestern University. He is also Clinical Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences at the University of Illinois School of Public Health. Mediator for the talk will be Adrienne Kochman, Curator of UIMA and the driving force for this exhibition. Here is a link to the event.
https://uima-chicago.org/events/2019/7/28/raw-reckoning-gallery-talk
Exhibition Card for Raw Reckoning UIMA Chicago →
Here is the front of the card for my one-person exhibition Raw Reckoning that opens June 7th and runs to August 4th at the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art in Chicago.
Information on Raw Reckoning Opening and Exhibition →
Opening Reception: 6-9pm, June 7th, 2019
On display from June 7th-August 4th, 2019
Raw Reckoning is veteran Chicago artist Michael K. Paxton’s one-person exhibition of large-scale paintings and works on paper that derive their structure from the study of slide sections of the effect of black lung disease on coalminers. Paxton, a sixth generation West Virginian creates pillar size fields of chalk, charcoal, gesso and acrylic on raw canvas that embrace this ongoing devastation from coal in an effort to point to a place and people not heard from often in contemporary art. Through a well ingrained working process of size and materials, the open-ended approach of how each painting is developed produces a colorful and awkward work of aggressive mark making that refuses to stand still. Pushing hard against expectations an otherness surrounds his work as he looks for the exact point where his bone deep Appalachian heritage can carve out a place for a heart’s desire to speak of something important, personal and yet as common as dirt.
Columbia College Chicago Screening November 30th →
There will be a free screening of the documentary film "Work At Hand" Friday, November 30, 2018 at 7:00 pm at Columbia College Chicago Film Row Theater, 1104 S. Wabash Ave., 8th floor.
Chicago Premiere of "Work at Hand" at Chicago Filmmakers →
The Chicago premiere of the documentary film "Work At Hand" will be presented by Chicago Filmmakers in two free screenings on Saturday October 20, 2018 at 7:00 PM and 8:30 PM at 5720 North Ridge Avenue, Chicago, IL. Both screenings are free and open to the public.
Work at Hand at Historical Wealthy Theater
Looking forward to the September 21st screening, 7:00pm, at the historical Wealthy Theater in Grand Rapids, MI
The Art of The Eye Exhibition →
I am pleased to be included in the group exhibition The Art of The Eye that opens March 31st at the new Kenosha Creative Space, WI. I will be showing one of my newest works on paper that is based on a slide section of the effects of Black Lung on coal miners from my native West Virginia. Shown Round Drawing, 2018, 26" x 20", graphite,watercolor, acrylic and flashe on paper. Judged and Curated by Diane Levesque and Kristen Bartel, I also send a big thank you to David Jones and Marilyn Propp.
Faculty Works Exhibition
I am pleased to be in included in the Faculty Works exhibition that opens August 22, 2017 at the Hokin Gallery of Columbia College Chicago. Featuring work completed in 2016 I will have on view Cobbtown 72 in. x108 in., chalk, charcoal, gesso on prepared raw canvas.
