Five Dots
Mychaelyn Michalec
Artist
My work depicts ultramodern scenes of domestic life. Creating large scale paintings (some 7 feet tall), I use family life as a reference. Documenting covertly, I use my phone’s camera to capture our relationships with each other and daily life. Social media has idealized family life, but I try to depict moments of both simultaneous disconnect and connection.
Painting for me is both an embrace of and resistance to domestic life. There is a saccharine image of family life depicted in pop culture. The expectation is that mothers are to provide a perfect future and produce lives of happiness and fulfillment for their children. When you connect to some things, you disconnect from others, those choices shape our lives.
Mychaelyn Michalec
Artist
My work depicts ultramodern scenes of domestic life. Creating large scale paintings (some 7 feet tall), I use family life as a reference. Documenting covertly, I use my phone’s camera to capture our relationships with each other and daily life. Social media has idealized family life, but I try to depict moments of both simultaneous disconnect and connection.
Painting for me is both an embrace of and resistance to domestic life. There is a saccharine image of family life depicted in pop culture. The expectation is that mothers are to provide a perfect future and produce lives of happiness and fulfillment for their children. When you connect to some things, you disconnect from others, those choices shape our lives.
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A Painting is a Painting is a PaintingApr 15 – May 28, 2023A Painting is a Painting is a Painting is an attempt to discuss the vast surface of meanings across the history and present understanding of this art form. We ask: who needs a painting in times of digital pictures, photoshopped compositions, and artificial realties? (more…)
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Mathilde Rosier / In the Fields of Intensive ProsperityMay 16 – Jul 22, 2023Mathilde Rosier has been painting since she was seventeen. She has long placed environmental concerns and what she calls “plants’ perspective” at the heart of her pictorial practice and artistic thinking. (more…)
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The Post-War DreamJourney into the AnthropoceneIn the late summer of 2016, I spent six weeks in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region where I documented the transformation of some of the most influential cities in the region: Ordos, Hohhot, and Baotou. While looking back on the images I had taken, I was unexpectedly reminded of post-war Italian cinema (more…)
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I Remember NothingLIMITED EDITIONIn the midst of chaos we hunt for dreams. It blends together. Their memories became my memories. Once-present. A personal story of search and encounters, of escape and returning. (more…)
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Hybrids: Forging New Realities as Counter NarrativePublicationHYBRIDS: Forging New Realities as Counter-Narrative aims to explore the new atmosphere of trans-disciplinary experimentation across divergent fields and sectors in the arts. (more…)
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Lise SarfatiPhotographerBorn in 1958 in Oran, Algeria Lise Sarfati lives and works between Paris and Los Angeles and is represented by Yossi Milo Gallery, NY, Rose Gallery, LA, La Galerie Particulière, Paris. (more…)
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César CuspocaArtistCésar Cuspoca (1987–2022) is a Colombian artist whose artistic practice principally nourishes questions of perception, the duality between appearance and disappearance, and materialism and immaterialism. (more…)
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Paul Chan: BreathersNov 17, 2022 – Jul 16, 2023Paul Chan: Breathers is the first major US-based museum exhibition of works by artist, writer, and publisher Paul Chan in 15 years. Chan, who was recently awarded the prestigious 2022 MacArthur Fellowship, came to prominence in the early 2000s (more…)
