Bio

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.

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, including China, Tibet and Nepal, where he garnered images for a show in Kazakhstan; London, UK, where he made his own art and installed a variety of artwork at the Tate Galleries for several years; Mozambique, where he met his amazing yogini wife Nadya; Germany, France, Hong Kong and Macao, as well as Central America and the Caribbean, 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.
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SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2018    Spring in The City, Hope and 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


PROJECTS

2019    Picnic, Abigail Ogilvy Gallery, Boston, MA
2017    Summer Juried Show, The A3 Gallery, Amherst, MA
2016    The Art Salon, Turners Falls, MA
2002    Student Artwork Exhibition, Art Students League of New York,, New York, NY
2000    Senior Show, Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, VT     


PRESS
 
2019    McQuaid, Cate, “Picnic”, The Boston Globe
2018    Pfarrer, Steve, “Art Maker: Painter/Photographer”, Daily Hampshire Gazette
2015    Rossi, Nina, “Flashes of Time”, Montague Reporter    
2014    Wicks, Lee, “Art Show This Weekend”, Montague Reporter
2010    Kochen, Robert, “Images”, Labletter
2009    Denton, Terri, “Reviews”, Newpages    
2003    Kubatina, Olga, “In Search of Truth”, Достық-Дружба [Friendship] Magazine