Night Fever Diptych
Michael Kalmbach
2008
Acrylic on Plastic Wrapped Over Felt and Poster Cut-outs
Two 36" x 18" panels
The Rockies
Michael Kalmbach
2008
Acrylic on Plastic Wrapped Over Felt
20" x 20"
Sensual Seduction + detail shot
Michael Kalmbach
2008
Acrylic on Plastic Wrapped Over Tie-dyed Faux Fur
50" x 50"
Built from the debased materials of plastic and craft felt, I see my paintings as quixotic meditations on the transformative power of material. I utilize repetition, variation, ritual performance, and improvisation as working devices that generate product and ideas.
The work Night Fever Diptych attempts to recontextualize Saturday Night Fever as a lesson in class division in the arts. How de-intellectualizing the body leads to false hierarchies and theories of exclusion. Born from a Coors Light commercial, The Rockies locates the contemporary sublime in plastic, it is simultaneously surface and abyss. Its purples pulled from the uniform of the thin-air-home-run hitting Colorado Rockies.
Sensual Seduction gets its title from a recent Snoop Dogg track-- in this work the dot strands direct the poured acrylic. The trails that are created begin to form a type of drawing, with this knowledge in my back pocket, I press on in the production of awesome.
2 comments:
I am trying to find Micheal Kalmbach from Landau Germany--he was the cute foreign exchange student at my high school in Saint Louis--is this him? This is from the young lady who sat patiently for days in 1979 while he painted my portrait for his final project!!!
Laurie-- ipaintpretty@gmail.com
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