Playful Abstracted Landscape
2016 Acrylic & Watercolor
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Micahel Carey
This 2016 gouache on paper landscape is by Michael Carey (1948-2017). Michael John Carey, was a Bay Area sculptor, painter and musician who lived and worked in Berkeley, California from 1978 through 2017. Like fellow Bay Area artists, William T. Wiley, Roy De Forest and Joan Brown, Michael Carey developed a recognizable “personal mythology” of recurring symbols, motifs and materials that conveyed his sense of cosmic truth. These symbols consistently populate his sculpture, painting and works on paper. Carey said, “I had the idea to try to create work that was free of traditional references to modernism—to attempt a visual vocabulary that could be universal. Animal imagery is probably the most elemental imagery in art, going back to the beginning of modern man. Working with that imagery felt right.” Born September 15, 1948 in Alhambra, California, Michael grew up in Claremont and La Verne, California. In 1976 he received a BA in Sculpture from California State University, Sacramento and in 1978 an MFA in Sculpture from East Texas State University, Commerce.
2016
Gouache on Paper
30x29.5" framed
Estate stamped lower right. Excellent vintage condition. Framed floating in a contemporary wood frame using white archival spacers behind conservation clear glass.
