Michael Rey

Michael Rey (born in Sarasota, Florida 1979) is an American abstract painter. Rey lives and works in Los Angeles, California.[1]

Education

Rey received his BFA in 2002 from Ringling School of Art and Design, Sarasota, Florida, and his MFA in 2008 from the Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA.[2]

Work

Rey is an American contemporary abstract painter. Rey’s wall-based artworks exist at the juncture between painting and sculpture, combining three-dimensional forms with painted surfaces.[3] The works are built from oil plasticine using an experimental technique that produces a delicate, skin-like exterior. The holes in these otherwise seamless objects function as measures of space, reinforcing a sense of objectness by punctuating and piercing the artworks’ surfaces.[4] Rey’s pieces exhibit a non-hierarchical relationship between color, shape, and surface in a manner similar to the minimalist art of Donald Judd and John McLaughlin. The wall works are born from Rey’s dreams and doodles; they begin as foreign shapes that evolve into signifiers of broader cultural contexts. Rey addresses the human tendency to seek meaning in everything, and calls attention to the mutability of images in a technological age. When choosing the titles of his works, Rey types nonsensical word jumbles into the Google Search Console to find combinations of letters which do not already exist.[5]

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions
  • Philip Martin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 2020[6]
  • Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles, CA, 2017
  • Michael Rey, Office Baroque, Brussels, Belgium, 2017[7]
  • PLYDIS KAVE, Zero, Milan, Italy, 2016[8]
  • Michael Rey, Office Baroque, Brussels, Belgium, 2015[9]
  • About a Work #4, Zero, Milan, Italy, 2015[10]
  • OMES, Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles, CA, 2015[11]
  • Michael Rey, Cherry and Martin 2732, Los Angeles, CA, 2014[12]
  • IBJECT, Michael Rey, Room East, New York, NY, 2014[13]
  • Dracula Plus Plus, Young Art, Los Angeles, CA, 2011[14]

Selected group exhibitions
  • Group Exhibition 2017, James Fuentes Gallery, New York, NY, 2017[15]
  • Top Heavy: Jennifer Boysen, Katy Cowan, Michael Rey, Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles, CA, 2017[16]
  • Expanded Fields, Nymphius Projekte, Berlin, Germany, 2016[17]
  • Back To Basics, The Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Malibu, CA, 2015
  • Vom Grossen und Ganzen, Herbert Gerisch-Stiftung, Neumünster, DE, 2015
  • Object Painting - Painting Object, Jonathan Viner, London, UK, 2015
  • Rio (curated by Louis-Philippe Van Eeckhoutte), Office Baroque, Brussels, Belgium, 2015
  • A Peg to Hang It On, White Flag Projects, St. Louis, MO, 2015
  • Crunchy, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY, 2015
  • Amy Feldman/Michael Rey, Freddy, Baltimore, MD, 2014[18]
  • Another Cats Show, 356 Mission, Los Angeles, CA, 2014
  • Where were you?, Lisson Gallery, London, UK, 2014[19]
  • Green Circle, Black Diamond, Ratio 3, San Francisco, CA, 2014[20]
  • Hephaestus, Office Baroque, Brussels, Belgium, 2014
  • Alexandre da Cunha, Michael Rey, Michael Williams, B. Wurtz, Office Baroque, Antwerp, Belgium, 2013
  • Chasm of the Supernova, Center for the Arts Eagle Rock, Los Angeles, CA, 2012
  • Animalfaith - Doot Doot (D.B. Sweeney), JB Jurve, Los Angeles, CA, 2010[21]
  • Ooga Booga Reading Room, Swiss Institute Contemporary Art, New York, NY, 2010
  • Is What It Is What It Is, Pacific Design Center, West Hollywood, CA, 2009
  • Sculpture Park, Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 2009
  • Cocktail Hour with Skip Arnold and Friends, Bonelli Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA, 2008
  • My Buddy, UCLA New Wight Biennial, New Wight Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 2007

Public collections

References
  1. "Biography". Philip Martin Gallery. Philip Martin Gallery. 2020. Retrieved 13 May 2020.
  2. "Biography". Philip Martin Gallery. Philip Martin Gallery. 2020. Retrieved 13 May 2020.
  3. "Michael Rey at ZERO... gallery: "The uncanny is not something you can produce at will" - Conceptual Fine Arts". 27 September 2016.
  4. "Michael Rey at Office Baroque". artviewer.org.
  5. Rey, Michael (11 May 2020). Gallery Talk with Michael Rey (Speech). Inside the Arts LIVE. University of Alabama at Birmingham. Retrieved 13 May 2020.
  6. "Mtt. Vidrxs". philipmartingallery.com.
  7. "Michael Rey". officebaroque.com.
  8. "PLYDIS KAVE - Zero". galleriazero.it.
  9. "Michael Rey". officebaroque.com.
  10. "About a work #4 - Zero". galleriazero.it.
  11. "exhibition › Michael Rey: OMES › cherry and martin". cherryandmartin.com.
  12. "2732: Michael Rey › cherry and martin". cherryandmartin.com.
  13. "Room East - MICHAEL REY". roomeast.com.
  14. "MICHAEL REY - DRACULA PLUS PLUS". youngartgallery.com.
  15. "James Fuentes Gallery - Group Exhibition 2017". jamesfuentes.com.
  16. "exhibition › Top Heavy: Jennifer Boysen, Katy Cowan, Michael Rey › cherry and martin". cherryandmartin.com.
  17. "Expanded Fields : NYMPHIUS PROJEKTE BERLIN FRIEDERIKE NYMPHIUS". nymphiusprojekte.de.
  18. "Freddy". freddygallery.biz.
  19. "Where Were You? - Exhibitions - Lisson Gallery". lissongallery.com.
  20. "Green Circle, Black Diamond - Ratio 3 - San Francisco". ratio3.org.
  21. "JB JURVE". jbjurve.com.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.