Michael Chen

Art Types involved-in: Oil Painting, Various Paintings

Michael Chen Biography:
Michael Chen (1962 - )  is a full-time American artist who has been having solo exhibitions since the 1990s, skilled in freehand oil painting, watercolor, and pastel painting. He studied graphic design at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze and has taken every opportunity to study the works of both master artists and modernists in galleries across the USA. Michael's artwork sells internationally, and his pieces can be found in private collections and art institutes. He is a professor of painting at a university in Italy.

Words from The Artist - "Experiment of Emotions":
Emotions are a type of power that transforms into something tangible and touchable from a mysterious and inexplicable state. This is the process of emotional change, from unconsciousness to consciousness. I don't just feel this emotion abstractly, but continually experiment with it using tools, the body, and even the whole mind and body.

I don't know if emotions can be experimented with and what materials emotions are made of. What serves as the catalyst for emotional experimentation? Painting, for me, is a way of recording. I don't intentionally design a result. I usually start with doodling a set or a series of paintings with my original intention in mind, and then find an image that I think can deeply express my current state, using different tools and materials.

I like challenges and expect the emergence of alternative images and sensations in my paintings. I don't like following a set pattern, nor repeating the same painting. I can rest for a few days, but not stop thinking. Emotions make me aware of the present, and emotions won't stop, neither will painting!

Michael Chen's Representative Works Exhibitions:

Graduation School: Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze

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