Re Mike

ReMike, aka Mike Leavitt (born November 4, 1977), is a visual artist most widely known for his "Art Army" series of hand-made action figure toys depicting visual artists, musicians, and entertainers. With his HiPop Project, Leavitt is responsible for a wide variety of fine art and design.

ReMike's HiPop Project threads a needle between art and design. ReMike's infamous quote, 'Living artists are just as good as dead ones', suggests big ambitions. In a world of possibilities 'trust your gut' is ReMike's credo. An intuition kitchen is a metaphor for his creative process. ReMike is a one-man company running on instinct in an isle of Seattle's southern waters known as Vashon. ReMike has gotten busy on a path-less-chosen since quitting Brooklyn's Pratt Institute as a freshman with a 4.0 GPA in 1997. The Empire Peaks are an ambitious array of Gen X imagery. Political-icon Star Wars mash-ups are executed as large scale, hand-carved, articulating wood statues. His Art Army action figures are hand-made one-offs depicting the band of marauding pacifists defending the earth. Spanning a range of historical subjects from Van Gogh to Tupac, ReMike stop-motion animates the articulating figures into movie shorts. The figurative format includes ...

Pratt Institute, New York
B.A., Evergreen State College

2004 Roq La Rue Gallery, Seattle
2005 Copro Gallery, Los Angeles
2007 Copro Gallery, Los Angeles
2007 ShowroomNYC, New York
2007 Gallery 1988, Los Angeles
2009 Stolen Space Gallery, London
2009 Fuse Gallery, New York
2011 Jonathan LeVine Gallery, New York
2013 Jonathan LeVine Gallery, New York