Michael Duke Pavoni

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Talismans, Portals, Offerings.

Mono No Aware is a Japanese concept of Value for the fleeting and impermanent. The 1-week cherry blossom sesason is the most well-known example. Important and Valuable because it lasts so short.

As an American living and making art in Japan, the opposing worlds of Past and Present, West and East, Fact and Fiction blend.

This work takes shape at those intersections of real and imagined, lived and dreamed, recalled and fabricated.

The work exists in the gap between actual events and memory imagined, created, distorted, magnified and buried.


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Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, USA
Parsons School of Design, Paris, France
Sorbonne Université, CCF, Paris, France

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1991.
"Installation and New Work". Richard Green Gallery. Santa Monica, CA
1988.
"Paintings on Paper". Richard Green Gallery. La Brea, Los Angeles, CA
"Paintings". Richard Green Gallery. SoHo, New York City.
1987.
"Paintings". Richard Green Gallery. La Brea, Los Angeles, CA
"Your Ad Here". EZTV, Los Angeles, CA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1993.
"Paintings". Curated by Robert Guberman and Leonard Bravo. Food House. Santa Monica, CA
1990.
"The New Fabricants". Curated by Bennett Roberts and Richard Heller. Richard Green Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
"Faces". Marc Richards Gallery. Los Angeles, CA
1989.
"Containers". Curated by David Pagel, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA.
1988.
"Art Against AIDS". Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, CA
"The Lorrin and Deane Wong Collection". Art Institute of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Laguna Art Museum Benefit: Contemporary Masters". Diane Nelson Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA

BIBLIOGRAPHY
David Pagel. "Michael Duke Pavoni". Lapiz Magazine (Madrid, Spain) March 1991
Michael Anderson. "Michael Duke Pavoni". Artspace, Summer 1991
Neery Melkonian. "The New Fabricants". VISIONS Magazine. Fall 1990
Peter Frank. "Pick of the Week / Art". LA Weekly. July 20-26, 1990
Peter Frank. "Container...