Yard Salsa
June 9 - September 27, 2015
The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA) is presenting a new exhibition in its Contemporary Art Square. It features a US emerging artist Michael
Williams. It is his first exhibition in Canada.
On display are around 60 drawings and 12 paintings. Eleven paintings are located in the temporary exhibitions' hall. One additional painting, shown directly above on the left, is a promised gift to the MMFA, and it is located in the museum's permanent collection across the hallway on the same floor.
The painting above to the right, entitled Yard Salsa, had provided the name to this exhibition. Majority of Michael Williams' paintings are first composed on a computer screen, then the file is given to a printer who prints the image on a huge inkjet printer onto a pre-gessoed canvas. Some works are considered complete and finished at that point. The others, the artist airbrushes those prints and applies additional paint. This is how some acquire a doodling impression.
Michael Williams said he identified himself the most with his painting The Morning Zoo, in front of which he poses below, because it encompasses his question whether he would continue painting if he were totally spiritually satisfied. With the man's head in the painting being Buddha-like, him holding a painting brush in his right extended hand, and the classical perspective pointing straight towards the painting, one is inclined to doubt that Williams would ever give up his art, under any circumstances.
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For more information, visit the MMFA website.
GUIDED TOURS
SATURDAY AND SUNDAY, JUNE 13 TO AUGUST 30, 2015, FROM 1.30 TO 3.30 P.M., MUSEUM GUIDES WILL BE ON HAND IN THIS GALLERY TO ANSWER QUESTIONS AND DISCUSS THE EXHIBITED WORKS.
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