Michael Gorman

Michael Gorman is an artist of extraordinary intensity and charismatic energy. For Gorman, art is essential to life. Exuberant in life, his art comes at the viewer like a churning locomotive demanding attention, demanding a response. We are not mild in this presence.

Paint surges and spreads across the canvas in platelets of boiling texture and color in which ominous obliquely human shapes and forms can be discerned. Gorman's unconventional uses of salvaged objects include slices of sofa, zippers, and tin can tops and much encrusted debris. His style links him as a contemporary exponent to the \"Art Informal Movement\", as a group of artists who used non art materials in their work rejecting traditional forms of composition.

Gorman's intense passion is passed into his work conveying a joyous liberation as he deflates the pompous with a huge finger or looms in the dark cavities of human gloom and mystery with a passionate wry foreboding.

The work may appear chaotic but his method is systematic. An organized riot of conflicting elements placing Gorman's work in a love
fest with detritus.

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2003 One Man Show, SOHO GALLERY, CA

Provocations, SOHO GALLERY, CA

Work from the left Coast, SOHO GALLERY, Ca

Selected Group Exhibitions

2004 Feb Group Show, Lurie Fine Art Galleries

2002 Glass Garage Fine Art Gallery, LA, Ca

The Summer Show, SOHO GALLERY, Ca

SOHO GALLERY, Studio City, Ca

2000 Glass Garage Fine Art Gallery, LA, Ca

Selected Private Collections

Jackie Chan, Beverly Hills, Ca
Richard Lewis, Los Angeles, Ca
Bennet & Maureen Shapiro, Beverley Hills, Ca
Howard & Ruth Gilliam, Beverley Hill, Ca

Selected Corporate Collections

Carole Black, President & CEO, Lifetime Networks
Phillip Morris Collection
Reebok Corporation
American Express
Bank of America, Hawaii
Transport Insurance Company, Dallas & Houston, TX