Micah Ganske
Born: 1980
Hometown: Honolulu, HI
Lives and Works: New York, NY
Website: http://www.micahganske.com
Twitter: @micahganske
Education:
MFA, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT, 2005
Post-baccalaureate Certificate, Maryland Institue College of Art Baltimore, MD, 2003
BA, School of the Art Institute Chicago, Chicago, IL, 2002
About The Artist
Micah Ganske’s hyper-realistic painting style is like a trompe l’oeil from a sci-fi film set, and in his ongoing series Tomorrow Land, he exposes the dangerous nature of exploiting natural resources in his art. Ganske’s research of environmental issues is inextricably intertwined in his work, and he produces sober and foreboding paintings that recall devastating acts of pollution. The works in Tomorrow Land portray toxic and abandoned landscapes albeit blanketed with shadows of “aspirational technology.” He considers himself to be a “conceptual figurative” artist focusing on the viewer’s perspective as the conceptual completion of his painting.
Galleries
RH Gallery, New York, NY
Works by the Artist
