Mikee Huber, Sol
yellow and gold oil-based mixed media with glitter on stretched canvas, 24” x 48”, horizontal orientation
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The artist on the piece: “I am an intuitive painter and approach a painting thinking about colors, patterns, and shapes I've observed in nature or in the molecular structure of materials. As I add layers and see how the painting takes shape, I direct and shape additional layers to strengthen the composition and watch a subject or story form. The undulating yellow and gold shapes appear almost as flames or solar flares. The color palette is powerful and warm, energizing, with rivulets of texture. The glitter adds an unexpected air of elegance. I started and completed "Sol" a couple of weeks before I had shoulder surgery and it was the boost of sunshine I needed to help with the anxiety.” - Mikee Huber
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Mikee Huber is an intuitive abstract painter whose work is informed by built environments, the natural world, and design. With a background in graphic design, she is inspired by abstract views of visual information embedded in such formats such as scientific images, circuit boards, and topographic views of city streets and waterways., sShe employs variations in color, scale, and contrast to create visual balance in her paintings and reimagine data as realms of possibility.
Huber often works in series as a way to organize her thoughts and ideas. Her Connections series represents how the importance of community and individuals are woven together, even more so as a result of COVID-19 virus which caused many people to be isolated and alone, missing family and friends and having their lives upended. Huber’s acrylic paintings allude to the light at the end of a long tunnel, a place and time that we will be able to safely connect in person again. Viewers can follow the twists and turns connecting the color fields and grids, leading them along a new journey. Her Catalyst series is a result of the hope she felt after learning that the COVID-19 vaccine was available. In these paintings, she attempts to capture the movement, change, consciousness, and imagination generated by catalysts through scraping, adding, and subtracting layers of glitter, inks, and paints including interference paint which shifts color when viewed at different angles. And in her series Controlled Chaos, Huber uses unconventional tools and materials. Tongue depressors, toothpicks, eye droppers, tweezers, and her fingers take the place of the traditional paintbrush to combine layers of paint, glitter, glue, and foil leaf. Fluid movements throughout the compositions beg viewers to see their own stories.
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