Mickey Vidakovich

Born in 1951 in Detroit Michigan. Exhibiting painter for 30 years. Exhibits in Chicago, Detroit, Ann Arbor, Boston, and Philadelphia are part of my resume. I also have work in some private collections. As you'll see in my exhibition record, I took a long layoff from visual art to pursue music as a songwriter and recording artist. Since I've picked up the brush again, my work explores line and gesture as subject matter unto itself dealing with the space within, without and in between. Most recently those lines are turning very small and thickly impastoed upon the surfaces. My influences have always been the Abstract Expressionists ranging from Kline, DeKooning, Lee Krasner and Pollock to the German Expressionists, particularly Kirchner and Beckmann. Earlier influences draw from Turner, VanGogh, and Rembrandt.

Bachelor of Fine Arts from Eastern Michigan University in 1976.
Briefly studied at Massachusetts College of Art/ Boston, MA. 1988-89

Most recent inclusion to members exhibit, Truro Center for the Arts/Castle Hill, Truro, MA., U.S.A. Numerous group and solo exhibitions in Detroit, Ann Arbor, Mi., Boston, and Cape Cod, Ma. and Philadelphia, PA.
Solo Exhibit/"The Wild Condition/Willis Gallery Detroit, MI. 1983,
Detroit/The Summer Months/ Parkwest Gallery/ Southfield, MI./1983
Michigan Artists Annual/ University Of Michigan Gallery/ 1981,
New York/Detroit/ group exhibition/ Parkwest Galleries/ Southfield, MI. 1983,
Solo Exhibit/ Kingston Gallery/ Boston, MA. 1986
Solo Exhibit/Paintings/ Macomb Community College/ Sterling Heights, MI. 1994,
Celebrate Michigan Artists/ Paint Creek Center for the Arts/ Rochester, MI. 1995
There have been many more group exhibits my work has been included in over a 30 year period.

PUBLICATIONS: New Art Examiner/1982, Detroit Metrro Times/1981, Detroit News/1999, Detroit News/1982 and 1999