Upgrading Your Memories Oil and resin on canvas • 24" x 36"

She's a Beautiful Street Pharmacist Oil and resin on canvas • 72" x 48"

May We Trade Personalities for Today? Oil and resin on canvas • 44" x 50"

Lessons in Walking on Water Oil and resin on canvas • 23" x 38"

Helping You Decide with Metal Balloons Oil and resin on canvas • 60" x 72"

All new work in the current exhibition is above this divider. The paintings shown below are available but are not on display at this time.

Internal Dissention Oil on canvas • 70" x 60"

Internal Dissention (detail) Oil on canvas • 70" x 60"

A Crush Oil on canvas • 50" x 50"

She Was Gone a Long Time Ago Oil on canvas • 66" x 84"

The Daughter's Three Personalities Oil on canvas • 62" x 54"

WORKS SOLD

About the Artist

Lennon Michalski's work has been shown internationally in group shows in Mexico, Columbia, and China, as well as widely in Kentucky. He has won a number of awards and fellowships, including participating last summer in the prestigious Anderson Ranch Arts Center Advanced Painting Studio Workshop. Michalski earned his Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder, and his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Eastern Kentucky University where he now teaches in the College of Art. The artist now lives and works in Lexington.

Artist's Statement

My work examines the conflicts encountered when children grow up without nurture. Can healthy mental awareness evolve without constructive, embracing, and caring guidance? Growth without nurture breaks the sense of unity and enforces separation. Uneven distribution of informative guidance results in mental conflicts that shape identity.
I investigate these qualities in the collision of animals, such as birds, cats, and fish, with the realm of abstract machines, animal tendencies, and mechanical repetitions. These characters have over developed qualities as a result of a nurtureless evolution. The lack of guidance is expressed through the struggle of interaction and leads to clumsy outcomes. These characters attempt to interact in spaces that mirror pleasant aquatic passages but have an eerie resemblance to an uncouth industrial domain. I use perspective and color in patterns to present emotional exchange between the illustrations. During application I am greatly influenced by my marks and work intuitively with the conversations discovered. The dialog between the marks I make and the new directions they suggest continues through numerous layers. This work narrates the emotional struggle of growing up without nurture, and how this informs a crude and frightening walk towards maturity.

Lennon Michalski, 2010

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