Summer Exhibit "Picnic"
Opening Reception, June 20 6-8PM
Abigail Ogilvy Gallery
460 Harrison Avenue, #C7, Boston, MA 02118
Exhibit will be on view June 20 - August 18
Pompidou Graffiti | Oil on Canvas, 2019, Paris, France, 30 x 48 inches
Artist Statement
Mishael Coggeshall-Burr integrates the art of photography and oil painting to create novel and compelling images on canvas. Taking blurred shots with a 35mm camera, the artist searches for peripheral scenes with cinematic color and tone. He translates selected images into abstract-realist paintings with convincing color, formal structure, and subtle references to art history. Through his actions Mishael questions both the truth of photography and the fiction of painting: we enter a liquid, cinematic space, capturing the magic moment when Alice seems to step through the looking glass. The photorealistic image melts away, the prosaic merges with poetry.