Michael Herres

I split my time between Lincoln, Nebraska and Santa Fe, New Mexico, where I also maintain a studio.
I tend to work in series. I will find some starting point, sometimes and idea or concept, sometimes an image. Then work with it until I think I have exhausted it, at that point I will set them aside and look for something new. The series are loosely based on sets of rules or parameters. Sometimes the idea dictates what materials I will use and other times the materials will dictate the idea. I try to "show" rather than "tell" in my work. It is not narrative, it doesn't tell a story. It is about experience and can be experienced differently by everyone who encounters it. Size does not matter but scale does. As the psychologist Carl Rodgers said, "That which is the most personal, is the most universal." My work is inner driven, I see myself as filter of culture and I am having a conversation with other artists through my work. I am just as interested in reading the biographies, writings and letters of artists as I am in their work. I want to know what they were thinking when they did the work. I want to get at their ideas and starting points and see where they take me anywhere from 10 to 500 years later.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2017 April, Artifact Gallery, New York, New York
2014 Michael Herres, Minan Gallery, Los Angeles, California
2013 Lunch With, Karpeles Manuscript Library and Museum,
Santa Barbara, California
2013 Works on Paper, A to Z Gallery, Lincoln, Nebraska
2013 Recent Paintings, Prints and Sculpture, Bin 105 Gallery, Lincoln, Nebraska

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2014 "Feria" Group Invitational Show Minan Gallery, Los Angels, California
2014 WESTMONT Ridley-Tree Museum of Art "5x5 Invitational"
Santa Barbara, California
2014 LoveArt, Direct Energy Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2014 Brand 42 Works on Paper Annual National Juried Competition, Brand Library Galleries, Glendale, California
2014 Domus, Minan Gallery, Los Angeles, California
2014 35th Annual Paper in Particular, Columbia College, Columbia, Missouri
2014 Metropolitan Pavilion, New York, New York
2013 Ancestors, Guardians and Guides, International Juried Show, Charles Sumner Museum, Washington, D.C. *Honorable Mention
2013 28th Annual Small Images Exhibition, National Juried Show, Atkinson Gallery, Santa Barbara, California
2013 Contemporary Expressionism - The Creative Spirit, San Diego Museum of Art, National Juried Show, San Diego, California
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