Michael Degnan

I am a visual artist whose abstract artworks are process-based, and often generative in nature. This process is a dialogue that is non-representative, with influences ranging from musical composition and iterative improvisation to biological patterning such as capillaries.

I feel that my artwork is at its best when viewers experience memory and image association, ranging from topographical maps, to mythology, and even arcade games.

This influence emerges from my experiences as both an artist and in medicine and science as a prosthetics clinician. In that role there is a crossover between life-like levels of realism created using traditional atelier skills, and emerging technologies, such as 3D printing.

MSc in Maxillofacial & Craniofacial Technology, Kings College London, 2012

Anaplastology and Medical Sculpture, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, 2008, including atelier studies at the Schuler School of Fine Arts.

BFA in Medical Illustration, Cleveland Institute of Art 2005

Annual Artists Exhibit and Sale, Buffalo Arts Studio, Buffalo, NY, 2013-2021

Light as a Feather/Stiff as A Board, Sugar City+Dreamland, Buffalo, NY, February 3-22, 2017

Echo Art Fair, OSC Manufacturing Bldg. , Buffalo, NY, May 13-15, 2016

Faculty Show , Keystone College, La Plume, PA , January – March 2014

Select Community Installations:

City of Night 2015, Buffalo, NY, Old First Ward July 18, 2015

City of Night 2014, Buffalo, NY, Silo City July 18, 2015, Sponsored by 3Doodler™ using 3D printing pen technology.

Independent Artefact for muf architecture / art LLP, London, UK, March 2010. Artefact for permanent architectural installation Claybury Woods & Park, Borough of Redbridge, London, UK. Client commissioned an arboreal ocular effect.