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MICHAEL REAFSNYDER

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28 April - 4 June 2022
  • MICHAEL REAFSNYDER

    28 April - 4 June 2022

  • Miles McEnery Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of recent works by Michael Reafsnyder. The artist’s sixth solo exhibition with the gallery will open on 28 April at 511 West 22nd Street and remain on view through 4 June 2022. The exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue featuring an essay by Charles Palermo.

  • New York, NY: Miles McEnery Gallery, ‘Michael Reafsnyder,’ 28 April 2022 - 4 June 2022 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    New York, NY: Miles McEnery Gallery, ‘Michael Reafsnyder,’ 28 April 2022 - 4 June 2022 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    New York, NY: Miles McEnery Gallery, ‘Michael Reafsnyder,’ 28 April 2022 - 4 June 2022 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    New York, NY: Miles McEnery Gallery, ‘Michael Reafsnyder,’ 28 April 2022 - 4 June 2022 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    New York, NY: Miles McEnery Gallery, ‘Michael Reafsnyder,’ 28 April 2022 - 4 June 2022 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    New York, NY: Miles McEnery Gallery, ‘Michael Reafsnyder,’ 28 April 2022 - 4 June 2022 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    New York, NY: Miles McEnery Gallery, ‘Michael Reafsnyder,’ 28 April 2022 - 4 June 2022 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    New York, NY: Miles McEnery Gallery, ‘Michael Reafsnyder,’ 28 April 2022 - 4 June 2022 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    New York, NY: Miles McEnery Gallery, ‘Michael Reafsnyder,’ 28 April 2022 - 4 June 2022 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    New York, NY: Miles McEnery Gallery, ‘Michael Reafsnyder,’ 28 April 2022 - 4 June 2022 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    New York, NY: Miles McEnery Gallery, ‘Michael Reafsnyder,’ 28 April 2022 - 4 June 2022 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).

    New York, NY: Miles McEnery Gallery, ‘Michael Reafsnyder,’ 28 April 2022 - 4 June 2022

    • Michael Reafsnyder Paint Loader, 2021 Acrylic on linen 84 x 72 inches 213.4 x 182.9 cm
      Michael Reafsnyder
      Paint Loader, 2021
      Acrylic on linen
      84 x 72 inches
      213.4 x 182.9 cm
    • Michael Reafsnyder Paint Master, 2021 Acrylic on linen 84 x 72 inches 213.4 x 182.9 cm
      Michael Reafsnyder
      Paint Master, 2021
      Acrylic on linen
      84 x 72 inches
      213.4 x 182.9 cm
    • Michael Reafsnyder Paint Party, 2021 Acrylic on linen 84 x 72 inches 213.4 x 182.9 cm
      Michael Reafsnyder
      Paint Party, 2021
      Acrylic on linen
      84 x 72 inches
      213.4 x 182.9 cm
    • Michael Reafsnyder Paint Wave, 2021 Acrylic on linen 84 x 72 inches 213.4 x 182.9 cm
      Michael Reafsnyder
      Paint Wave, 2021
      Acrylic on linen
      84 x 72 inches
      213.4 x 182.9 cm
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  • 'There the analogy between Reafsnyder’s work and the post-painterly abstractionists finds its limit. His work has the intense color associated...
    Michael Reafsnyder
    Firecracker, 2021
    Acrylic on linen
    52 x 60 inches
    132.1 x 152.4 cm

    "There the analogy between Reafsnyder’s work and the post-painterly abstractionists finds its limit. His work has the intense color associated with Louis’s and Noland’s, but not the near-virtual quality given to it by staining the paint into the canvas."

    - Charles Palermo in "Losing Voice/Taking Form"

  • "Somewhere between Reafsnyder’s expert handling of the acrylic paint and the fictional space of the resulting waves and cuts and slashes and stuttered vectors of color, manipulation gives way to fiction. Between the two is the risk that Reafsnyder runs."

    - Charles Palermo in "Losing Voice/Taking Form"

    • Michael Reafsnyder Blue Brew, 2021 Acrylic on linen 52 x 60 inches 132.1 x 152.4 cm
      Michael Reafsnyder
      Blue Brew, 2021
      Acrylic on linen
      52 x 60 inches
      132.1 x 152.4 cm
    • Michael Reafsnyder Candidate, 2021 Acrylic on linen 60 x 52 inches 152.4 x 132.1 cm
      Michael Reafsnyder
      Candidate, 2021
      Acrylic on linen
      60 x 52 inches
      152.4 x 132.1 cm
    • Michael Reafsnyder Cardiff Rain, 2021 Acrylic on linen 44 x 60 inches 111.8 x 152.4 cm
      Michael Reafsnyder
      Cardiff Rain, 2021
      Acrylic on linen
      44 x 60 inches
      111.8 x 152.4 cm
    • Michael Reafsnyder Deep End, 2021 Acrylic on canvas 52 x 44 inches 132.1 x 111.8 cm
      Michael Reafsnyder
      Deep End, 2021
      Acrylic on canvas
      52 x 44 inches
      132.1 x 111.8 cm
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  • 'The paint gets thick—indeed, some passages could be called undercut relief, which seems apposite because their physicality tempts one to...
    Michael Reafsnyder
    Beagle Bounce, 2021
    Acrylic on canvas
    40 x 46 inches
    101.6 x 116.8 cm

    "The paint gets thick—indeed, some passages could be called undercut relief, which seems apposite because their physicality tempts one to get close, to see these works from within. Paint is dragged across the surface with Plexiglas sheets of various degrees of transparency and flexibility for different tasks. The dragged passages of variegated color are perhaps the most obtrusive, however a variety of visual incident, and techniques, is fully evident. Reafsnyder makes some especially important pictorial elements by launching blobs of paint at the wet surface."

    - Charles Palermo in "Losing Voice/Taking Form"

    • Michael Reafsnyder Flutterby, 2021 Acrylic on linen 52 x 60 inches 132.1 x 152.4 cm
      Michael Reafsnyder
      Flutterby, 2021
      Acrylic on linen
      52 x 60 inches
      132.1 x 152.4 cm
    • Michael Reafsnyder Funnel Cake, 2021 Acrylic on canvas 40 x 46 inches 101.6 x 116.8 cm
      Michael Reafsnyder
      Funnel Cake, 2021
      Acrylic on canvas
      40 x 46 inches
      101.6 x 116.8 cm
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  • Michael Reafsnyder Studio, Orange, CA

    Michael Reafsnyder Studio, Orange, CA 

     
  • "The two figures Reafsnyder adds participate as well as witness. They are inside and outside. They represent Reafsnyder’s place—the painter is not just outside the work, an unseen actor whose presence is simply external to the finished product. Like risk, the painter occupies a liminal place, between the process and the effect, between the material reality of making and the fiction. Partly inside and partly outside."

    - Charles Palermo in "Losing Voice/Taking Form"

    • Michael Reafsnyder Rocket Pop, 2021 Acrylic on canvas 60 x 52 inches 152.4 x 132.1 cm
      Michael Reafsnyder
      Rocket Pop, 2021
      Acrylic on canvas
      60 x 52 inches
      152.4 x 132.1 cm
    • Michael Reafsnyder Swirl, 2021 Acrylic on linen 60 x 44 inches 152.4 x 111.8 cm
      Michael Reafsnyder
      Swirl, 2021
      Acrylic on linen
      60 x 44 inches
      152.4 x 111.8 cm
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  • Michael Reafsnyder Studio, Orange, CA

    Michael Reafsnyder Studio, Orange, CA

  • MICHAEL REAFSNYDER (b. in 1969 in Orange, CA) received his Bachelor of Arts degree in studio art at Chapman University...

    Michael Reafsnyder Studio, Orange, CA

    MICHAEL REAFSNYDER (b. in 1969 in Orange, CA) received his Bachelor of Arts degree in studio art at Chapman University in Orange, CA in 1992 and his Master of Fine Arts degree at the Arts Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA in 1996.

     

    Select solo exhibitions include Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY; Ameringer | McEnery | Yohe, New York, NY; “In Bloom,” R.B. Stevenson Gallery, La Jolla, CA; “Sunday Best,” Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, C A; “ We Ate The House,” Ameringer | McEnery | Yohe, New York, N Y; “Gleam,” R. B. Stevenson Gallery, La Jolla, C A; “Feast,” Ameringer | McEnery | Yohe, New York, NY; “Delight,” Marty Walker Gallery, Dallas, Texas; “Sweetness,” Rebecca Ibel Gallery, Columbus, OH; “Put it There: New Paintings and Ceramics,” Western Project, Culver City, CA; “Undone, R.B. Stevenson Gallery,” La Jolla, CA.

     

    Select group exhibitions include “Do You Think it Needs a Cloud,” Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY; “Michael Reafsnyder & Patrick Wilson,” Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY; “Belief in Giants,” Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY; “Non-Objective,” Telluride Fine Art, Telluride, CO, curated by James Hayward; “Painters Room,” RB Stevenson Gallery, La Jolla, CA; “Works of Paper II,” ACME., Los Angeles, CA; “Recent Acquisitions,” Barrick Museum, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV; “Paths and Edges: Celebrating the Five-Year Anniversary of the Escalette Collection,” Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University, Orange, CA; “Floor Flowers,” Peggy Phelps Gallery, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA; and “Keramik,” Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, CA.

     

    His work may be found in the permanent collections of the Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH; Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA; Las Vegas Art Museum, Las Vegas, NV; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR; and Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA, among others.

     

    Michael Reafsnyder lives and works in Southern California.

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