Mikel Elam

Philadelphia Pa Like so many others I have been consumed with the single idea of living my life as a visual artist.I am still trying to find my way into the business of marketing my work. There is a transitory space between reality and fantasy which is where my art exploration exist.It's about tranformation.I consider my work to be neo expressionistic intermixed with the primative.Sometimes there is concrete representational information in my works yet most of the time my work lies in a dreamy freudian place full of sketchy illusions.I have always been interested in identity and the mystical presence of organisms.We all find ourselves born into a society full of archetypal rules and regulations mixed with multiple bias,politics and religion.So ultimately my work is about evolution. That place in which we exist with a bit of heaven,earth and hell in the middle.

University of the Arts Philadelphia Pa
School of the Visual Arts New York City
Schuylkill Academy of Fine Arts Philadelphia ,Pa.

Woodmere Art Museum
July 28-September 30,2012
Philadelphia Pa
Winner of The Maurice Freed Memorial Prize
Curator: Alexander Kanevsky
Studio Visits Magazine
December 2011
Curator: Ian Berry
AAF Fair
New York City
September 2010