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Presentation by New York-based painter Michael Berryhill on April 21

Michael Berryhill’s work occupies the territory between drawing and painting, fusing an intuitive expressionism with a highly self-aware painterly language built from previous art historical styles.  While his works are fundamentally synthetic in their combination of diverse influences, he strives to extend beyond a catalog of cultural or historical references.  Instead, Michael creates work that utilizes his medium’s long history while also responding to his in-process sensory reactions, eclectic cultural taste, and the material conditions of painting.  As such, his paintings manage to be both sophisticated and raw, offering experiences that feel simultaneously complete and unpredictably open.

When:

Tuesday, April 21, 5:10 – 6:00 pm

Where: 

Art & Design (Dexter – Building 34), room 150

Michael Berryhill earned his B.F.A. in painting at the University of Texas at Austin in 1994 and his M.F.A. from Columbia University in 2009. In 2007 he completed a residency at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and was selected for the 2009 space program by the Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation.  In 2012, Michael received a prestigious New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Painting, and his most recent solo show Beggar’s Blanket at KANSAS Gallery in New York City was both a commercial and critical success.  Enthusiastically positive reviews include Art in America, L Magazine, Huffington Post, and Modern Painters, in which he was named in 2013 as one of 25 emerging “Painters to Watch”.  Michael has shown in group and solo shows extensively in New York, Chicago, Houston, Berlin, Portland, and Austin.  An image of one of his works was featured on the cover of the May 2014 issue of the Brooklyn Rail and several of his paintings are included in the current edition of New American Paintings.

Event is free and open to the public and made possible by the College of Liberal Arts’ Lottery Speakers Fund.

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