ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONIST ART VIDEOS

When Mike quit art school in 1997, the first thing he did was get an 8mm digital camera. He wanted to pursue a variety of art forms at the time, including the possibility of effectively animating the abstract expressionists he admired, from Pollock and DeKooning to O’Keefe and Rothko. He loved abstract painting, but he wanted it to move. His first large scale installation, “Epiphany”, was born of this same motivation. So, from 1998 to 2009, as he collected clips of natural phenomena that confounded him, Mike edited and spliced his way to a finished product. Recorded video being a linear, didactic, non-interactive art form, Mike still found more liberation from controlled parameters within the box of the screen vs. the flat-planed frame of a canvas.