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Michele MikesellThe Boar Oil on canvas, surreal figurative abstract painting, bright palette2025
2025
$13,800
£10,541.04
€12,112.85
CA$19,699.60
A$21,599.06
CHF 11,278.86
MX$259,917.56
NOK 142,152.03
SEK 133,659.47
DKK 90,460.54
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The Boar
Oil on canvas
60 x 60 in 152 x 152 cm
Michele Mikesell’s "The Boar" is a surreal, figurative oil painting that draws the viewer into its curious tension between the everyday and the archetypal. At its center sits a man with a finely painted, realistic face, his body clothed in a patterned tunic marked with bold black clubs and elongated red stockings. He rests in a deep green armchair, his long legs extending across a striped floor, the scene both intimate and theatrical.
The palette is restrained yet striking: cream and beige walls adorned with faint motifs, dark green upholstery, and the vivid red of the stockings that electrify the composition. The figure’s gaze is steady, enigmatic, almost challenging, while the title — The Boar — hints at an unseen layer of metaphor. Mikesell often merges human portraiture with animal symbolism, suggesting strength, endurance, or untamed instinct hidden beneath civilized costume.
The scraped, layered surface adds depth and texture, giving the painting a sensual tactility and a sense of time worn into its skin. The Boar exemplifies Mikesell’s ability to transform figuration into allegory — at once witty, mysterious, and compelling. For collectors, it is a statement piece: contemporary portraiture infused with surreal charm and symbolic intrigue.
- Creator:Michele Mikesell (1973, American)
- Creation Year:2025
- Dimensions:Height: 60 in (152.4 cm)Width: 60 in (152.4 cm)Depth: 1.5 in (3.81 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Dallas, TX
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU640317001122
Michele Mikesell
American artist Michele Mikesell incorporates elements of Pop art, Surrealism and Expressionism into her eclectic works and creates a unique visual experience for the viewer. Her figurative paintings and portrait paintings depict figures that seem to be peering out at and contemplating anyone within a stone’s throw of the works. In Mikesell’s subjects’ faces, the influence of the 17th-century Dutch masters is also detectable, while her abstract paintings are marked by the influence of postwar Abstract Expressionist painters.
Mikesell was born in Alabama in 1973. She earned her BFA at Texas Woman's University, Denton, in 2002, where she minored in graphic design. In 2004, Mikesell earned her MFA at the University of Oklahoma before moving to Dallas to begin her artistic career. It didn't take long for her to begin turning heads. Dallas-based DECORAZON Gallery, located in the city's historic Bishop Arts District, started representing her in 2006.
When Mikesell begins to work on a piece in her studio, she is unhurried, allowing each project to unfold before her by reacting to the marks in the paint. Many of her paintings are of human figures with whom viewers may feel a sense of familiarity, while other works feature anthropomorphic animals or petroglyphs meant to function as metaphors for the dichotomy of animal instincts and human ideas. Mikesell also draws inspiration from mythology: The Morrigan (2017), for example, is based on a powerful figure from Irish folklore.
Mikesell has exhibited at many art fairs around the world, including SCOPE Art Show, London Art Fair, Aqua Art Miami and the Asia Contemporary Art Show in Hong Kong. She had a solo exhibition at the Ardmore Museum of Art in Oklahoma, and her work is held in numerous private and corporate collections and has been featured in publications like Juxtapoz magazine.
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