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Painting, Acrylic on Wood
Size: 30 W x 24 H x 1.5 D in
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Critic: John Crowther June 13, 2022 Michael Yurick’s Managed Mania is a beautiful abstract work that could be discussed at length based only on its painterly characteristics. However, I too often get lost in descriptions of a work's painterly qualities without paying attention to the conceptual weight they bare. I want to try and focus this critique on the work's emotional instead of technical attributes. For me, the kaleidoscopic palette of the painting is a metaphor for all the thoughts, hopes, disappointments, and feelings plaguing us. Human consciousness, and the plethora of ideas it forces upon us, is a blessing that can often feel like a curse. How do we cope with this endless onslaught of feelings? We compartmentalize. Like the complex blocks of color covering Managed Mania, we try to manage the complications of our existence by putting them into airtight phycological boxes to prevent them from immobilizing us under an onslaught of emotion and to prevent joy from being constantly tinged with sadness. Like many things, this is good and bad. People who overly compartmentalize often emotionally isolate themselves beyond the point of comfort and into the nothingness of indifference. But, without compartmentalization, we would not be able to function; we would drown in our own awareness. My mania could use some management, and I see the present work as a visual metaphor for the balance I crave. Yurick does not completely confine the blocks of color to neat and evenly spaced boxes. In fact, he does not strictly limit them to boxes. In the middle of the canvas, the blocks are increasingly obscured by each other and by loose gestures of acrylic that have no exact home. Managed Mania is not a picture of a mind that has sacrificed the joy of emotion for stability, but one that maintains a degree of spontaneity and openness while keeping the whole controlled enough to manage.
Painting:Acrylic on Wood
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Size:30 W x 24 H x 1.5 D in
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ARTIST STATEMENT Michael’s paintings are based on the meeting of hard line and organic elements. Balancing texture, layers of flat shape with dimensional form and varied color with a keen awareness of the space between the constructed grid and the fluid organic shapes takes the dimensional aspect and energy of these works even further. BIOGRAPHY Numerous solo and group exhibitions have taken place since Michael started showing his art in galleries in 1990. Awards, commissions and collections nationally and internationally were soon to follow. Over time, painting moved into printmaking & mixed-media collage and graphic design merged with photography all to become a unique style and voice of his own. Michael’s full body of work exudes a sense of commitment, discipline and a mastery of composition and technique all based on connected aspects of his of work from many years of exploration of concept and medium. EUROPEAN COMMISSION Michael was commissioned by P&O Cruises, a British Line, to create 35 original works of art ‑ 25 mixed media collage works and 10 paintings for their newest luxury cruise ship, Britannia, launched from Southampton, England in March 2015. PERMANENT COLLECTIONS The Art Students League of New York, Jury Selected The New York Public Library Print Room, Jury Selected
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