My one-person exhibition, Bone Deep, at the Shircliff Gallery of Art of Vincennes University, IN, opened August 16th and runs until September 22nd. August 31st the documentary film, Work at Hand, will be shown at 7:00pm in the gallery and an Artist Talk and Opening will take place at 12::00 noon on September 1st.
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.
Group Exhibition in Miami
I am pleased to have Small Island #1, 50" x 95", included in the forthcoming group exhibition, Short Term Infinity,to be presented by BOCCARA Art Miami from Sept. 16-Nov. 16. I will be with four other Chicago Artist and the show was put together by the Curator Lauren Iacoponi. Thanks Lauren.
Featured Artist KNACK Magazine no. 71
I am pleased to announce that I am a Featured Artist in the just published KNACK Magazine no. 71. A big Thank You to Andrea Catalina Vaca, Co-Founder, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief for both selecting my work and for the rich, dead on reproductions of paintings and drawings.
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.
Exhibition Card Announcement For Interpolations at EAC
I am very happy to share this card announcement for my forthcoming major one-person exhibition, Interpolations, New Large-scale Work by Michael K. Paxton, that will open at the Evanston Art Center main floor gallery February 27 and run through April 4, 2021. An extensive brochure will be available at the exhibition and a virtual Artist Talk will take place March 5, 2021 from 5:30-6:30pm in support of this new work. This exhibition will mark my third major one-person museum scale exhibition of new work in four years and will also mark my 40th anniversary of showing in Chicago. This project is partially funded by a Grant from Columbia College Chicago, the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency, and the EAC general membership.
Professional Development Grant Awarded
I am pleased to announce that I have been awarded a Professional Development Grant from Columbia College Chicago to cover the costs to prepare and mount my forthcoming one-person exhibition, Interpolations: New Large-Scale Work by Michael K. Paxton, to be presented in the main floor gallery of the Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL, opening February 27, 2021 and running through April 4, 2021.
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.
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/
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.
Artist Talk and Film Screening →
April 25, 2019 I will be featured by the Peninsula Fine Art Center in Newport News, Virginia in an After Dark Film and Artist Talk from 6:30-8:30. The documentary film Work at Hand will be screened as part of this event. This was organized by Lee Matney of the Linda Matney Gallery and Diana Blanchard, Curator of the Art Center.
Unleashing Instinct Exhibition Extended →
Linda Matney Gallery has extended my one-person exhibition of ink on drafting film drawings titled Unleashing Instinct until January 3, 2017.
Interview by Linda Matney Gallery
I am very pleased to have had a recent phone interview with Ryan Lytle of Linda Matney Gallery about my work as a prelude to the gallery showing my recent pen and ink on drafting film drawings. I want to also thank Director Lee Matney for this opportunity and his ongoing support of my work. Here is a link to the interview.
