DLI

DESIGN LAB ONE

DL 1
GROCS cPORTAL
2010
About the Lab May 5, 2010
Michael Kagan
Wednesday Tea Brooklyn, NY
As an artist, I have become fascinated with
the connection between painting and space
Classes travel. Space images have opened up new
outlets for me to expand size and painting
technique, brush work, and abstraction in my
most recent work. Through my work, I am
Workshops constantly looking to create a tension and February 14, 2010
anxiety between abstraction and representa- Wednesday Tea
tional painting. The iconic images of astro-
nauts and their hardware in space become 3.15 - 5.30 PM
the vehicle to express this tension. My paint-
ings are not documentations of space flight,
but of abstract interpretation. In these pieces
of work, the paint strokes communicate space
Calender
with its beautiful calmness and contradicting <Previous Month April 2010 Next Month>
fast, powerful, chaotic senses of unknowing-
ness. Thick, fast, and, at times, chaotic over- Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
lapping brush strokes cross and interweave
1
violently throughout the canvas. However, the
2 3 4 5 6 7 8
flurry of brush strokes dissolve then come 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
together to form an image of peace and 16 17 18 19 20 21 22
tranquility in space. Machinery and complex 23 24 25 26 27 28 29
space hardware are broken up into soft sec- 30
tions and layers.