JOIN US FRIDAY, OCT 26TH TO SEE STEPHEN MICHAELS' "PHONETICS" AT THE FRAME GALLERY!
5200 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15213
From the artist:
My name is Stephen Michaels, and I am a third year student at the Carnegie Mellon University School of Art. I am an artist working in mixed media, including costumes and wearables, drawing, photography, video, writing, sculpture, and installation. In my work, I use mythology as a vehicle to create symbology within abstraction. I am interested in the way archetypal phenomena are reduced to symbols in mythological narratives and how re-interpretation can permeate them. Pulling from Judeo-Christian, Greco-Roman, esoteric and occult stories, I reinterpret and refigure them into my own visual language. I am interested in the visual culture of tarot cards, and specifically the dichotomy within their images that they are cryptic and symbolic, but also legible through the deduction of their contained symbols. I am bringing a Queer reinterpretation to age old ideas that are at once cemented and forgotten. With the use of costume, I insert myself into these narratives, while using my body as a tool to create a dynamic image. I use writing to articulate these theoretical frameworks within my work and to build a language within poetry that acts parallel to my visual arts practices.
5200 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15213
From the artist:
My name is Stephen Michaels, and I am a third year student at the Carnegie Mellon University School of Art. I am an artist working in mixed media, including costumes and wearables, drawing, photography, video, writing, sculpture, and installation. In my work, I use mythology as a vehicle to create symbology within abstraction. I am interested in the way archetypal phenomena are reduced to symbols in mythological narratives and how re-interpretation can permeate them. Pulling from Judeo-Christian, Greco-Roman, esoteric and occult stories, I reinterpret and refigure them into my own visual language. I am interested in the visual culture of tarot cards, and specifically the dichotomy within their images that they are cryptic and symbolic, but also legible through the deduction of their contained symbols. I am bringing a Queer reinterpretation to age old ideas that are at once cemented and forgotten. With the use of costume, I insert myself into these narratives, while using my body as a tool to create a dynamic image. I use writing to articulate these theoretical frameworks within my work and to build a language within poetry that acts parallel to my visual arts practices.
