“My creative model lies somewhere among abstraction and realism with colourist sensibility.”
By Increase Art | 21 Sept 2022
Michael Pfleghaar has not long ago joined Increase Art, bringing his Hockneyesque Even now Lifes works to the system. Michael is an illustrator, painter and ceramicist. Checking out aspects of self-reflection and materiality, the artist applies flat house, uncomplicated, clean traces, and balanced nevertheless daring colors to his will work, makes archaeological dialogues among scenes, settings, and objects.
Michael implementing underglaze to some new greenware ceramic sculptures (@pfleghaar)
How would you explain your artistic model?
My creative model lies someplace involving abstraction and realism with colourist sensibility. My objective is to incorporate the two opposing inventive types into a unique visual language characterised by flattened room and exaggerated color. Modern-day layout is also an impact in my perform as it would seem to abide by a equivalent visual aesthetic and substance for matter subject.
Good Liquid Glass, 2019, by Michael Pfleghaar
What messages or themes do you want to communicate with your get the job done?
The key topic in my operate is relationships. Objects and vegetation depicted in my compositions develop into the surrogates for the figure and how they relate to each individual other visually and symbolically.
Wire Plant Stand, 2019, by Michael Pfleghaar
How has your observe developed more than the many years? Have you often labored in an summary type?
Around the yrs my art practice has different from darkish figurative narratives in my undergraduate experiments to individual interior areas and however lifestyle. In graduate university my operate progressed to totally non-goal though dealing with the similar themes of interactions. I have since appear back again to realism drawing from daily life as an autobiographical resource while combining things of abstraction.
Michael working on a residence venture at residence (@pfleghaar)
What’s an ordinary working day like in your studio?
I see myself as an artwork worker so my studio apply is priority. On a standard day I get there all-around 9am and operate on many paintings at the similar time. Generally one significant scale piece on canvas and a few drawings. I enjoy developing in sequence as properly, exploring themes as a result of a human body of get the job done. Afternoons are expended performing the small business facet of art, documenting perform, updating websites, implementing for displays, etcetera.
Monstera Shadows 1, 2021, by Michael Pfleghaar
What/Who are your critical influences?
My influences fluctuate from previous school painters these as Henri Matisse and Pierre Bonnard. Contemporaries like David Hockney, Jonas Wood, Paul Wackers, Nathalie du Pasquier, Carrie Moyer, Amy Sillman and modernist designers this sort of as Ettore Sottsass, Charles and Ray Eames, and Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec.
Agave at Night, 2021, by Michael Pfleghaar
Who are some Increase Artwork artists with get the job done you might be savoring at the moment?
Lisa Kellner went to the exact same Graduate Faculty in Boston as I, so I take pleasure in and discovered her perform on Increase Artwork.
Dim Botanical 4, 2022, by Michael Pfleghaar
Are you at this time working on any interesting new assignments?
This yr has been a busy just one in the studio with loads of commission paintings and acquiring again into clay creating a body of botanical encouraged ceramic objects.
