Nationality American Name Michael Gallagher | Known for Painting | |
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Born 1945 ( 1945 ) Los Angeles, California, Movement Abstract Expressionism, Abstract Illusionism, Lyrical Abstraction, Digital painting Awards 1967 Yale-Norfolk Summer School Grantee Education Yale University, University of Southern California Periods Lyrical abstraction, Digital painting, Abstract Illusionism, Abstract expressionism | ||
Michael B. "Mike" Gallagher (born 1945) is an American painter whose work is associated with Abstract Illusionism.
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Life
Born and raised in Los Angeles, California. In 1964-68 he received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Southern California. In 1967 he was a Yale-Norfolk Summer School Grantee. In 1970 he received a Master of Fine Arts from Yale University.
Public collections
Museums:
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Beverly Hills, CA
Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio
Albany Museum of Art, Georgia
University of Arizona Museum of Art (Tucson, AZ), Tucson, AZ
Erie Art Museum, Erie, PA
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Wharton School of Business, Philadelphia, PA
Jewish Museum, New York, NY
Bryant University, Smithfield, RI
Exhibitions
2008-9 “Art & Illusion,”Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA
2008 “Reflections from the Artist's Eye,”Frederick Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA
2008 “Inaugural exhibit at Roseville's Blue Line,” Blue Line Gallery, Roseville, CA
2006 “Art and Illusion: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation,” Bakersfield Museum of Art, Bakersfield, CA
2005 “Made in California,”Frederick Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA
2004 “Sketchbook 88,” Jean-Michel Basquiat, Georges Braque, Marc Chagall, Dale Chihuly, Richard Diebenkorn, Ronald Davis, Richard Estes, Sam Francis, Helen Frankenthaler, Michael Gallagher, Keith Haring, Michael Heizer, David Hockney, Robert Indiana, Jasper Johns, Mark Kostabi, Alex Katz, Roy Lichtenstein, Mel Ramos, Robert Motherwell, Helmut Newton, Kenneth Noland, Pablo Picasso, Gerhard Richter, Susan Rothenberg, Todd Rundgren, Thomas Ruff, Larry Rivers, James Rosenquist, Julian Schnabel, Frank Stella, Donald Sultan, David Salle, Cy Twombly, Rufino Tamayo, William Wegman, Andy Warhol,” Galerie Sho Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
1999 Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY
1995 Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY