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>"Michael Gorman is an artist of extrordinary intensity >and charismatic energy. For Gorman, art is essential >to life. > >Exuberant in life, his art comes at the viewer like a >churning locomitive demanding attention, demanding a >response. We are not mild in this presence. > >Pain surges and spreads across the canvas in platelets >of boiling texture and color in which ominous >obliquely human shapes and forms can be discerned. > >Gorman's unconventional use of salvaged objects >include slices of sofa, zippers, tin can tops and much >encrusted debris. His style links him as a >contemporary exponent to the "Art Informal Movement", >a group of artists who used non-art materials in their >work rejecting traditional forms of composition. > >Gorman's intesne passion is passed into his work >conveying a joyous liberation as he deflates the >pompous with a huge finger or looms in the dark >cavities of human gloom and mystery with a passionate >wry forboding. > >The work may appear chaotic, but his method is >systematic. An organized riot of conflicting elements >placing Gorman's work in the love fest with detritus. > >BORN >Johnson County, MO 1963 > >EDUCATION >University of Kansas at Lawrence, BFA >University of California, Berkeley >Summer of 88-89 Florence, Italy > >SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS >2002 Provocations, SOHO Gallery, CA 2001 Work from the >Left Coast, SOHO Gallery, CA 1993 Bruce Lurie Gallery, >New York City, NY >1996, 1997 SoHo Gallery, Hollywood, CA >1993, 1994 Irv Brenner Gallery, Palm Beach, FL >1993 On the > >SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS >1999, 2000, 2005 Glass Garage Fine Art Gallery, Los >Angeles, CA >1997, 1999, 2004, 2005 SoHo Gallery, Hollywood, CA >1997 Seidman Gallery, Santa Monica, CA >1997 Basel Art, Switzerland< > >SELECTED CORPORATE COLLECTIONS >Philip Morris Collection >Reebok Corporation >American Express >Bank of America, Hawaii >Transport Insurance Company, Dallas & Houston, TX > > >SELECTED PRIVATE COLLECTIONS >Jackie Chan, Beverly Hills, CA >Richard Lewis, Los Angeles, CA >Bennet & Maureen Shapiro, Beverly Hills, CA >Howard & Ruth Gilliam, Beverly Hills, CA
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