• She wove during the day the sadness.

    Oil on Canvas
    40” x 30”  |  2016

  • The girl sitting, signaled and took advantage of the confusion.

    Oil and Spray Enamel on Canvas
    40” x 30”  |  2017

  • Looking for faith at the party

    Oil and Spray Enamel on Canvas
    40” x 30”  |  2017

  • Three arsonists and rebels in this happy town.

    Oil and Spray Enamel on Canvas
    40” x 30”  |  2017

  • An afternoon of waltzes and cockfights prostrated her, ending in tragedy.

    Oil on Canvas
    40” x 30”  |  2017

  • He was beautiful without ever having spoken a word.

    Oil and Spray Enamel on Canvas
    40” x 30”  |  2016

  • Sweethearts poisoning the splendor.

    Oil and Spray Enamel on Canvas
    40” x 30”  |  2016

MICHAEL GILES Website CV

Knoxville, TN | Painting, Drawing
Bio:

Michael Giles (b.1974) is a Venezuelan-American artist working primarily in painting and drawing. He has exhibited internationally, and currently lives and works in Knoxville, TN. Born in Maracaibo, Venezuela, he was raised in rural Baltimore, OH. He studied as part of the Reciprocal Exchange Program at Edith Cowan University (Perth, Australia, 1996) and received a BFA from the Ohio State University-Columbus in 2000, and a MFA from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville in 2007. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Art at Lincoln Memorial University in Harrogate, TN.

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Statement:

My work stems from finding pattern and rhythm in the world around me. The paintings began from finding places and spaces between words and lines in the text of One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. These spaces/rhythms/patterns serve as the beginning of the paintings unto which I add color, line, and paint. The colors and patterns come from instinctual spaces in my head; they are worked and worked over on the canvas in layers which are considered, covered, and combined. Taking a cue from the Deleuzian “becoming” my paintings are an attempt to find a new meaning from these disparate influences; an attempt to combine text into visual language; an attempt to find a new impetus to make art.

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