New York City, NY
Biography:
I am a mixed media artist living and working in New York's Lower East Side. I moved to New York City in 1983 to study painting and received my Bachelor of Fine Arts from Parsons School of Design and while there studied under many influential artists such as the painter Sean Scully. I have exhibited my paintings in Chicago, Richmond and several New York City galleries along with creating CD covers, menus for restaurants, and theater posters. My work has been auctioned off alongside such American and European Artists as Calder, Haring and Miro and I am also in several private collections in the United States.
Painting is a very sacred act to me; I like to explain the creative process as an act of making communion with myself. At a very young age the necessity to create incubated and grew out of a deep knowing that words would never be enough for me to express with.
My paintings, drawings and collages you could say, are looking glasses into the core of my very existence. They mirror everything I am experiencing. I’m capturing moments in time which either come from a deep place within or from outside of me. The characteristics and the arts of various cultures, fashion, history, and music, artists of today and artists of the past all fuel my work. I am very interested in color and I am constantly exploring, being effected, and being challenged by it. Numerous inspirations spiral out at me constantly from the city nourishing me on a daily basis. I try to
Website: www.miccicohan.net
