Lon Michels
Lon Michels creates paintings that pulsate with detail. His subjects vary from still-life, landscape and portraiture and are guided by visionary-like perceptions. Vivid colors and layers of innovative patterning form rhythms and energized fields. Like Pointillist Georges Seurat, Michels aspires to paint at a near molecular level.
Michels grew up in Marquette, Wisconsin. After earning his BFA from Ripon College, he moved to New York City and became the studio assistant for sculptor Louise Nevelson for five years. Lon received his MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and was nominated for a Joan Mitchell grant in 2007. He currently resides in Lodi, WI with his husband Todd and their dog Bazzy.
PRESS
Review, Shepherd Express, Kat Kneevers
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Review, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Mary Louise Schumacher
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Article, Upscale Living Magazine
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Article, Madison Magazine
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Article, Capital Newspapers
SELECT EXHIBITIONS (GROUP & SOLO)
2017 Husband & Husband, Portrait Society Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
2015 Dinner at My Place, Gallery One Rancho Mirage, Palm Springs, CA
2013 Painted Fashions by Lon Michels, Copely's, Palm Springs, CA
2012 Lon Michels & Flowers by Livija, Overture Center, Madison, WI
2012 Our Gardens Inside and Out, Charles Allis Museum, Milwaukee, WI
2007 Lon Michels Solo Retrospective, Ripon College, Ripon, WI
2002 Romance, The Wave Gallery, Key West, FL (solo)
2001 Objects of Passion and Desire, Vermont Supreme Court, Montpellier, VT (solo)
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SELECT COLLECTIONS
Museum of Wisconsin Art, West Bend, WI
Circus World Museum, Baraboo, WI
West Point Town Hall, West Point, WI
Key West Customs House Art Museum, Key West, FL