Michael Souter's painted wooden doors and artist open studio in New York

Artist’s Biography:

Michael Souter, Birmingham, MI

Throughout his painting career, Michael Souter has relocated frequently, with each successive move resulting in another layer of influences. In San Francisco, he explored the use of bold shapes and of introducing texture. Then in Tokyo he took up the idea of using large-scale pieces and the suppression of color, which involved layering black and white paint on top of intensely-colored hues. While in New York he tapped into using motion and a more symbolic language.

Michael Souter holds a BFA in painting from Western Michigan University. He has also held faculty appointments as a painting instructor at the Ecole International in Geneva and the California College of Arts. His paintings have been exhibited in New York, Detroit, Kalamazoo, Torino Italy, Salt Lake City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Geneva.

Throughout much of his work, Michael Souter has applied the technique of layering colors: He builds up his surface and then deconstructs and "reapplies" consecutive layers of paint, thus denying the painting's uniform flatness. He works by reacting to the fluidity and immediacy of the paint, controlling and giving up control, and exploring the tension that results. Souter eschews the traditional painter's tools in favor of using non-conventional and found objects to create texture and patterns. As he evolves through an elaborate process of felt experience and intuition, Souter's non-objective works often take on a life, and a history, of their own.

Mixed media on wood doors. 80"x 28"

Address & Contact: 153 W. 27ST. #1002
New York NY 10001

Country: United States

State/County: NY

City: New York