ON VIEW: October 28, 2023—January 21, 2024
Lon Michels: Disrupting Patterns is a mid-career retrospective. Michels’ Neo-Pop figuration intuitively navigates the boundaries between framed, staged, and the projection of self through pattern. He captures members of his social circle informally at home or at work. Within the ordinary aspects of their lives. Michels highlights their idiosyncrasies and emphasizes their fragile, approachable humanity. The exhibition will feature forty-five paintings displayed within a re-created lounge environment of leopard-painted Buddha sculptures, a taxidermy bear, a 1961 camper van, a VW, and plush household furnishings. The exhibition includes numerous Classes, Talks, Lectures, and Guided tours by Lon Michels. View recent artwork on display

While popular cliché is that young artists are often baristas, bartenders, or waiters, if not trust-fund babies, a lot of them do actually manage to find employment within the art world, and the luckiest art-school grads find jobs as assistants in the studios of more established artists. These apprenticeships—in which the up-and-comer lays down the ground of an art star’s abstractions, buffs the chrome of multimillion-dollar sculptures, does finger-cramping filigree work, or… fetches coffee—can often yield key introductions to curators and future collectors, providing a step up for one’s career. Most intriguingly, though, they also generate something else: a shadow family tree of the art world, where artistic influence can be seen transferring from one generation to the next.

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