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ABOUT MICHAEL:
ƒ Michael Wells is a fine arts painter living and working in Oakland, California. Michael began painting as a boy in rural southern Indiana. His interest in the fine arts solidified while attending an experimental public high school in Melbourne, Florida. He later attended the Institute of Design of the Illinois Institute of Technology.
Over the years Michael has produced an enormous body of work, mostly sold to local collectors and corporations. He also has work in the permanent collection of the Oakland Museum of California and the Crocker Art Museum, in Sacramento, CA.
Why "raw paint"? Michael isn't interested in creating narrative images but in the expressive qualities of paint. Influenced by the Expressionist and Action painters of the 1950s and 60s, Michael has continued to search for new and innovative ways of allowing paint to "speak for itself" in the raw, without words. Michael's work is 'eclectic' in that he does not limit himself to one particular technique or style but explores a variety of painterly interests.
Michael feels that a work of art is 'co-created' by the artist and the viewer. The painter may put the paint on a surface but the viewer brings his own search to the moment. "If a painting slows someone down enough to get them to stop whatever they are doing and actually look at it, I consider it sucessful. Now, if they will also look at themselves looking, so much the better!"
