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Michele MikesellMuddy Fox, Oil on canvas, figurative pop art portrait with yellow background2022
2022
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"Muddy Fox" is a fun and beautiful oil painting by Michele Mikesell. Her animal-human figure has a flawless and beautiful face combined with abstract elements and her signature pristine painting texture and finish. This painting has a bright yellow palette and includes a custom dark brown wood frame.
This intriguing artwork showcases a surreal figure with a human body and an animal-like head set against a solid yellow background. The character’s elongated form and mismatched features create a striking visual contrast, capturing the viewer's attention. The head, reminiscent of a fox, with its pointed ears and expressive eyes, suggests themes of transformation and duality. Its humanoid body, cloaked in muted, earth-toned stripes, emphasizes the unique blend of nature and identity. Sparse brushstrokes and minimalist style highlight the creature's isolated presence, evoking both whimsy and introspection. The yellow backdrop amplifies the subject's enigmatic aura, providing an open space that invites contemplation. This piece stands out for its imaginative fusion of form and color, provoking curiosity and deeper inquiry into the nature of identity and perception.
"Muddy Fox"
Oil on canvas
20 x 20 inches
50 x 50 cm
MICHELE MIKESELL
b. 1973, Alabama, USA
In 2002, Michele Mikesell earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts with a minor in graphic design from Texas Women's University in Denton, TX. Mikesell completed her Master of Fine Arts at the University of Oklahoma in Norman in 2004.
“Creating individuals is what I find most interesting in the studio. It is my hope that these portraits will be familiar characters to the viewer, subjects we recognize and identify with. My work consistently travels along a general vein of the universal human experience. This particular group of paintings is an iconographical departure from previous work in that literal human features have been introduced. Other aspects of this work directly reference the anthropomorphic petro glyph characters in which I first based my interest in painting. These realistic, stylized faces placed within loosely interpreted animal shapes and costumes narrate a continued thesis of dichotomy and metaphor - comparing and contrasting human ideas with animal instinct. Irony, contradiction, humor and tragedy, have been continued themes in my work and are illustrated not only within the image, but within the actual paint and surface of the painting.
I am influenced by a diverse and extremely eclectic group of different movements including Abstract and German Expressionism, Art Informal, Children’s Art, as well as the 17th century Dutch masters and the current Pop Surrealist movement. I work with little or no pre-conceived finished piece. My process is a constant acting and reacting from and within the marks subliminally laid into the paint.”
- Creator:Michele Mikesell (1973, American)
- Creation Year:2022
- Dimensions:Height: 21.26 in (54 cm)Width: 21.26 in (54 cm)Depth: 1.58 in (4 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Dallas, TX
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU640312606622
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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