Michael Gorman Electric Horseman Original Mixed Media 49 x 57 painting

Michael Gorman. American. B. 1963
Gallery Shown and Museum / Celebrity Collected Contemporary Artist.
'Electric Horseman'. 49 x 57  circa 2013
This piece is from the artist's original Cowboys & Ballerina Sold out series circa 2012/13.
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Mixed media on paper. Oil/ Aerosol / Pastel. Gallery mounted and framed in shadowbox with UV plexi.
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ARTIST’S STATEMENT
My philosophy is simple: I am an artist and a painter and no subject, no technique is off-limits in my quest for self-expression. My influences are to be found anywhere and everywhere in the physical and the metaphysical world. My work changes and evolves constantly; I have absolutely no preconceived notions about what I will paint next. Anything that moves me, inspires me, is a fit subject for my art.
Not only is subject matter infinite, but so too is form. All of these independent variables are what keep me driven to create art. The exploration of color and texture is integral to the process I have developed and used over the years in my never-ending battle to conquer the act of composition.
I will not be constrained by received or traditional methods of applying material to a surface when the work demands something new, some conventional boundary to be stretched – oil and water do mix. Sometimes a simple brushstroke will suffice; sometimes a dense collage of images and layers is needed; the final result is always, I hope, an honest communication of my emotion and inspiration, a profound dialogue between myself and the viewer, conducted in a language beyond words.
BIOGRAPHY
Born five days before the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Gorman has always associated his birthday with this monumental event in history. To be born at the passing of an iconic figure gives one a precarious sense of life, a constant reminder of how it will end, and a consequent passion to make the bloody most of it.
He grew up in the mid-west, back and forth between Texas and Kansas. His mother was a self-taught artist, a painter, in the style of Norman Rockwell only better. Gorman sat at her knee and learnt from her unfettered version of the creative process. They would compete, draw the same subject, present their pictures to the family. Every now and then, even at that young age, child Gorman had them fooled.
After a four-and-a-half year tour of duty as a cryptologist in the United States Navy (1983-1987), he enrolled in the School of Architecture at the University of Kansas at Lawrence. He changed his major to Fine Art following a brush with death from boredom. Six semesters later, he was accepted into the graduate painting program at the University of California at Berkeley, where he received his Master’s Degree in 1992.
Painting all the while, Gorman began to work as a set designer for motion pictures in Los Angeles in 1993. He continued in this line until attending an art opening held by a little-known gallery in West Hollywood, where he first met the Lurie family. After visiting his studio, the brothers were eager to offer him a show, and over the next fifteen years they developed a relationship that thrives still today, stronger and closer than ever. He remains their number one artist, with around 1,800 paintings in circulation in Los Angeles and around the world; in addition to numerous prestigious One-Man Shows, he has three times received the Presidential Seal of Approval for Artist of the Year.
Gorman is incapable of living a normal life. He is touched with the genius that breeds insanity, in a world of his own and of his own making. He paints and draws in a frenzy, heart and hand bypassing the brain to mark those exquisite, perfect lines on paper or canvas, a pure unmediated form of communication. Whether he is painting simple figures or constructing a complex mixed media piece, the urge to create, to express himself, is paramount, a necessity.
MICHAEL GORMAN – RESUME
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Born
Johnson County, MO, 1963
Education
University of Kansas at Lawrence, BFA
University of California at Berkeley, MFA
Scuola Dante Alighieri, Florence, Italy
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2011
Red Dot, New York, NY
2010
The Art District, Santa Monica, CA
Red Dot – Art Basel, Miami
2009
Lurie-Kavachnina Gallery, Miami, FL
Gallerie Wild, Zurich, Switzerland; Frankfurt, Germany
2008
Lurie Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA
Gallerie Wild, Zurich, Switzerland; Frankfurt, Germany
2007
Addison Gallery, Boca Raton, FL
Evan Lurie Gallery, Indianapolis, IN
2006
Addison Gallery, Boca Raton, FL
Evan Lurie Gallery, Indianapolis, IN
Red Dot – Art Basel, Miami, FL
2005
SoHo Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Red Dot – Art Basel, Miami, FL
Venice Art Biennale, Italy
2004
Glass Garage Gallery, West Hollywood, CA
SoHo Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2003
SoHo Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
“Provocations” – SoHo Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
“Work from the left coast” – SoHo Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2002
Glass Garage Gallery, West Hollywood, CA
2001
Glass Garage Gallery, West Hollywood, CA
1997
Bruce Lurie Gallery, New York City, NY
SoHo Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1996
SoHo Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1994
Irv Brenner Gallery, Palm Beach, FL
1993
Irv Brenner Gallery, Palm Beach, FL
Bruce Lurie Gallery, New York City, NY
On The Wall Gallery, New York City, NY
Selected Group Exhibitions
2011
LA Art Fair, CA
2010
The Art District, Santa Monica, CA
SoHo Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2009
Glass Garage Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Left Coast Gallery, Studio City, CA
SoHo Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2008
Left Coast Gallery, Studio City, CA
Addison Gallery, Boca Raton, FL
2007
Left Coast Gallery, Studio City, CA
Addison Gallery, Boca Raton, FL
Kunst Fair, Zurich, Switzerland
Selected Group Exhibitions (continued)
2006
Glass Garage Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Left Coast Gallery, Studio City, CA
SoHo Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2005
SoHo Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Randal Erickson Contemporary Art, Palm Springs, CA
2004
Feb. Group Show, Lurie Fine Art Galleries, Los Angeles, CA
Aida Bethel Gallery, New York, NY
SoHo Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Glass Garage Fine Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2003
SoHo Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Glass Garage Fine Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Irving Medlum Gallery, New York City, NY
2002
Glass Garage Fine Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Summer Show, Lurie Fine Art Galleries, Los Angeles, CA
2001
SoHo Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2000
Glass Garage Fine Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
SoHo Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Solomon Dubnick Gallery, Sacramento, CA
1999
Glass Garage Fine Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
SoHo Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1998
Metropol Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
SoHo Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Art Basel/Ivan Altron Gallery, New York City, NY
Brewery Artwalk, Los Angeles, CA
1997
SoHo Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Brewery Artwalk, Los Angeles, CA
Seidman Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Basel Art, Switzerland
Lawrence Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA
Wilde Meyer Gallery, Scotsdale, AZ
Bruce Lurie Gallery, New York City, NY
1996
SoHo Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Bruce Lurie Gallery, New York City, NY
1995
New Artists Series, Los Angeles, CA
DADA Group Exhibition, Los Angeles, CA
1994
Irv Brenner Gallery, Palm Beach, FL
Il Literature Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Bruce Lurie Gallery, New York City, NY
Basel Art, Switzerland
Principal Collections – Corporate
Philip Morris Collection
Reebok Corporation
American Express
Bank of America, Hawaii
Transport Insurance Company, Dallas, TX
Transport Insurance Company, Houston, TX
Principal Collections – Private
Jackie Chan, Beverly Hills, CA
Richard Lewis, Los Angeles, CA
Bennet & Maureen Shapiro, Beverly Hills, CA
Howard Ruth Gilliam, Beverly Hills. CA