Michael is teaching Head and Portrait Painting Class #197 B at Palomar College beginning in January 2009, Fridays, 8:30-11:30, 12:30-3:30. The
class is ONLY FOUND IN THE ON-LINE SCHEDULE. Due to a clerical error
it did not make it into the printed class schedule. 

Artist's Statement:

First and foremost I think of myself as an abstract artist even though I paint representationally.  My interest lies in the emotional response viewers perceive through design, color, edges, textures and abstract shapes.  Secondly, I am concerned with light.  I look for the play of light on a shape whether it is a figure, landscape or building.  I am interested in how light illuminates form, creates space and describes atmosphere.  Finally I am interested in subject matter.  I place this last because I will paint anything that I am moved to paint but my first priority is the subject’s abstract quality and it’s relationship to light. 

Galleries:
Gasov and Gurule, Scottsdale, AZ

Rancho Santa Fe Art Gallery       

Exhibitions:
Joe Wade Galleries           
Santa Fe, N.M.

Blair Carnahan Fine Arts    2003 , One Man Show
Santa Fe, N.M.

Boehm Gallery                     2002, One Man Show
San Marcos, Ca

Adair Margo Gallery            2002, One Man Show
El Paso, Texas

Campagna Gallery             1998, One Man
Chicago

Adair Margo Gallery            1996, Two-Man Show
El Paso, Texas

Palomar College                 1997, One Man Show
San Marcos, Ca

New York Society of
Illustrators                             1990, Group

Los Angeles Society of
Illustrators                             1991, 92, Group

University of Texas at
El Paso                                  1986, One Man Show

Gallery E Sports Gallery       On-going
(Baltimore Orioles Baseball)
Team Gallery)

Awards:
Gold Medal, Society of
Illustrators, Los Angeles 1991

Gold Medal, Society of
Illustrators, Los Angeles, 1987

Pat Nagel Award, Los Angeles Society of Illustrators

Selected Collections:                         
University of Texas at El Paso
Palomar College
United States Air Force
Colombia Health Care
Broadway Equity Fights Aids
Harcourt Brace
Trammell Crowe
Various private collections, California,
New York, Texas, Florida and New Mexico

Professional Experience:
Associate Professor of Art, Palomar College 
San Marcos, Ca.

Freelance Illustrator 1975 to 1993:
Art Director 1972-1976

Publications and Books:
“Billy Lazroe and the King of the Sea”
Harcourt Brace children’s book. 1997

“All By Herself”, Harcourt Brace
Children’s book. 1999

Selected Commissions:                    
Trammell Crowe
American Airlines
Pepsi
AT&T
Viking Books
Penguin Books
Houghton Mifflin
Harcourt Brace
Texas Monthly
Los Angeles Times
Major League Baseball