Mishael Coggeshall-Burr integrates the art of photography and oil painting to create novel and compelling images on canvas.
“We live in a mostly blurry world. Our eyes only actually focus on a tenth of our field of vision at any one time. Our viewpoints, emotions, and context blur our memories. The landscapes I paint are in some way our genuine environment: the backgrounds to our lives, always present and often out of focus.”
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.
Mishael studied painting at Middlebury College, The Glasgow School of Art, and the Art Student's League in New York. His artistic adventures have led him to many countries and continents, with many images from his travels featured in his art exhibitions. He lives, works and paints in Montague, MA with his wife and four children.
Mishael Coggeshall-Burr is currently represented by Abigail Ogilvy Gallery (Los Angeles), following seven years of representation through their Boston location.
Installation view at VOLTA Basel, Switzerland
MARSIELLE LIGHTS, 2024 and BROADWAY, 2024
Basel, Switzerland, 2024
MISHAEL COGGESHALL-BURR
EDUCATION
2002 — Art Student's League, New York, NY
2000 — Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT — BA Painting/Physics
1999 — Glasgow School of Art, Scotland — Painting (Hons)
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 — Courage Has Two Colors, The Barn Gallery, Montague, MA & Abigail Ogilvy Gallery, Boston, MA
2020 — Paris Impossible, Abigail Ogilvy Gallery, Boston, MA
2018 — Spring in the City, Hope & Feathers Gallery, Amherst, MA
2017 — Beyond, The Barn Gallery, Montague, MA
2015 — Escapes, The Barn Gallery, Montague, MA
2014 — Home, The Barn Gallery, Montague, MA
2013 — Light in the Dark, The Barn Gallery, Montague, MA
2012 — The Art Journal, The Barn Gallery, Montague, MA
2003 — On the Road, Tengri Umai Modern Art Gallery, Almaty, Kazakhstan
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 — Game Time, Group Show, Abigail Ogilvy Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2024 — Summer Send-Off, Group Show, Abigail Ogilvy Gallery, Boston, MA
2023 — The Salon Show, Group Show, Abigail Ogilvy Gallery, Boston, MA
2022 — I’ll See You Again, Soon, Group Show, Abigail Ogilvy Gallery, Boston, MA
2022 — The Salon Show, Group Exhibit of Gallery Artists, Abigail Ogilvy Gallery, Boston, MA
2021 — Back Together, Group Show, Abigail Ogilvy Gallery, Boston, MA
2020 — The Salon Show, Group Exhibit of Gallery Artists, Abigail Ogilvy Gallery, Boston, MA
2019 — Picnic, Group Show, Abigail Ogilvy Gallery, Boston, MA
2020 — Congruence, I Like Your Work, Online Juried Exhibition (Juror: Bridgette Mayer)
2020 — Transitions, Group Show, ArtsWorcester, Worcester, MA
2020 — You Are Here, Group Show, Discovery Center, Turners Falls, MA
2020 — The One, Juried Group Show, ArtsWorcester, Worcester, MA
2019 — The Salon Show, Group Exhibit of Gallery Artists, Abigail Ogilvy Gallery, Boston, MA
2018 — Group Exhibition, A3 Gallery, Amherst, MA
2017 — Group Exhibition, Hope & Feathers Gallery, Amherst, MA
ART FAIRS
2023 — VOLTA, Basel, Switzerland — presented by Abigail Ogilvy Gallery
ADDITIONAL PROJECTS / INITIATIVES
2016 — The Art Salon, Turners Falls, MA — featured speaker & exhibitor
2002 — Art Student's League Annual Exhibition, New York, NY
2000 — Senior Show, Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, VT
PRESS HIGHLIGHTS
The Uses of Reverie — Cate McQuaid, The Boston Globe, May 17, 2023
Inside a Gorgeously Contemporary South End Unit in a Former Baptist Church — Jaci Conry, Boston Magazine, March 9, 2023