2019 May 3 to 30 Peter Abrami – Patternicity Exhibition

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Peter Abrami is an artist working primarily in painting and drawing with an interest in exploring the connections between human perception, abstraction and cognitive recognition. He holds an MFA in painting from the University of Texas Austin (2015) and a BFA in painting from The University of South Florida (2010). Peter’s paintings and drawings have been exhibited in group and solo shows both nationally and internationally.

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Notable venues he has had the opportunity to exhibit his work include BRIC Art Center, David Shelton Gallery, Whitdel Arts Detroit, The Royal College of Art London, The DeVos Art Museum, School 33, CICA Museum, Lansing Art Gallery, La Guardia Community College and Atlantic Center for the Arts. Currently Peter lives in Interlochen Michigan where he teaches Visual Arts at Interlochen Center for the Arts.

Sky Net, by Peter Abrami

As an artist, his subject matter stems from his research and observations of early childhood development, particularly the link between visual cognition and play. His interest lies in how our visual perception actually functions.

In his recent paintings, forms that suggest schematic bodily shapes punctuate “fields” of built up color and brushstroke, titled “Face/Fields,” a series of work that plays to people’s desire to arrange visual information into a known or easily understood construct. Pareidolia is the psychological means in which these paintings are activated and reveal themselves.

In another series, “Particulates,” hundreds of individual marks come together to form webs of optical fluctuation. These drawings actively engage with a person’s field of vision, creating a perceived visual sizzle akin to a hallucinatory state. This series of work is a continuation of my research into visual perception and cognition, drawings that hint at an underlying image that is in a perpetual state of dissolve and becoming.

Artist’s Website: www.peterabrami.com

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2019 March 1 to April 30 Artist’s View Exhibition

Gallery February 7, 2019 MICAmanager 1 Comment

Artist’s View is an exhibit displaying the work of artists coordinated by Mina Greco Hall. Their works cover a wide range of subject matter and each artist brings their personal viewpoint to this collection of surreal, abstract, and nostalgic representation of the world around us. After learning the basics, join the featured artists in their series of experiments with color, shape and form.

MINA GRECO HALL

“I began painting in my teens and studied in private schools in Taranto, the Italian port where I was born, soon having an exhibit in the Taras Gallery in that city. I participated next in Lipari, Sicily in 1956; in Rome in an international exhibit; and in various other Italian cities such as Termoli, Campobaso, Ligure, the Brera Gallery in Milan, etc.

“In the early 1960’s, I emigrated to the US and made Lansing, MI my home. Several newspapers and books in Italy and the US have carried pictures and my information. From Lansing I received a silver medal at the Cannes International Art Festival in France in 2005, and in the same year, the prestigious Szepmuvestzeti Museum in Budapest, Hungary, included me in an international exhibition. I also exhibited in the Louvre Art Museum, in Paris, in an international exhibit, in 2005.

“My autobiography entitled From Italy to America with Love, was published by Xlibris in 2012 revealing my life as a child in WWII in Taranto, Italy, as well as my artistic career there and in Michigan.”

BART RYPSTRA