Michael John Spitaletto

My work deals with the psychological and emotional aspects of colors. A synesthesia of sense and emotion (thought affecting feeling/emotion and feeling/emotion affecting thought) represented in the work by color, line, space, shape and form. A verbal versus visual balancing within the composition through obscured or partly obscured shapes and letters with and through the use of color within a composition. I work in layers combining elements of hard edge and geometric abstraction with surrealism, blurring shapes and words of dreams and reality visually combining the sleep-state with the waking world. Rational (thought) vs Irrational thought (impulse). (distressed blurred background, illegible verbiage = dreams, thought, imagination, chaos...hard-edged shapes = rules, technicalities, regulations, order)

My work evolves during the creative process.
Lines, forms, and colors from the natural world evolve during my creative process, informed by loose pre-sketches and visual rhythms.

The work is process oriented and lifestyle inspired pulling influences from life and time spent living, motorcycling and surfing in Southern California and other places. Several of my paintings have been included in World Wide Art Book's "Current M...

Flagler College Bachelor of Arts/Fine and Studio Arts
Life
Dreams

May 2015 Holly Socrates Gallery, El Segundo, CA
Nov. 2014 Viir Gallery, Tucson, AZ
June 2014 Newport Beach Civic Center Newport Beach, CA
May 2014 Canvas Gallery, Malibu, CA
May 2014 Venice Art Auction Venice, CA
April 2014 Jeanie Madsen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
May 2005 Audis Husar Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA
Sept. 2005 Shenandoah Arts Council, Winchester, VA
Oct. 2005 Enso Art Gallery, Front Royal, VA
Feb. 2005 Black Cat Gallery, Culver City, CA
Dec. 2005 Black Cat Gallery, Culver City, CA
Dec. 2004 Black Cat Gallery, Culver City, CA
Nov. 2004 Black Cat Gallery, Culver City, CA
Sept. 2004 Black Cat Gallery, Culver City, CA
June 2004 Black Cat Gallery, Culver City, CA
June 2003 Metro Church, Santa Monica, CA
July 2002 Largo, Los Angeles, CA
Aug. 1996 39 Cordova Gallery, St. Augustine, FL
July 1994 St. Augustine Art Association, St. Augustine, FL
May 1994 Carrera Gallery, St. Augustine, FL (Equal Award)