• Artist's Statement

    Formal qualities such as color relationships, linearity that is descriptive but furtive, and textural and surface facts that create the fiction of the image are the means to a never ending end-- the infinite connotations of form.

    My competing tendencies towards simplicity and extravagance have made contradiction itself a prevalent theme.

    History, geography, and portraiture are also occasional concerns.

    I like picture making.

    —Michael Ottersen

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    Michael Ottersen
    Education
    Tyler School of Art,Temple University, Philadelphia,PA, B.F.A
    Solo Exhibitions
    2004Gallery 4Culture, Seattle, WA "Corduroy Symptom"
    1985Sharpe Gallery, New York, NY
    1983Sharpe Gallery, New York, NY, "Skin and Bone"
    1976Tyler Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
    Selected Group Exhibitions
    2011 Feature Inc., New York, NY "I Am Not Monogamous, I Heart Poetry"
    2011 Kirkland Arts Center, Kirkland WA "The Three Dimensional Line" Curated by Ellen Ziegler
    2010 Feature Inc., New York, NY "Power to the People"
    2010 Gallery onetwentyeight, New York, NY "Geometric Themes and Variations" Curated by Gloria Klein
    2009 Feature Inc., New York, NY "Skulture"
    2009Gallery onetwentyeight, New York, NY "Goo'z Part Two"
    2009Soil, Seattle, WA "Dig, Soil Invitational/2009"
    2007Ice Box Project Space, Philadelphia, PA "Tyler Alumni Exhibition, Painting 2007"
    2007Pratt Gallery, Seattle, WA, "Faculty Exhibit"
    2006Kirkland Arts Center, Kirkland, WA, "On the Edge"
    1999 Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA, "1999 Pacific Northwest Annual"
    1998 Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle,WA, "Pratt Faculty Exhibit"
    1998 Kirkland Arts Center, Kirkland,WA, "Faculty Exhibit"
    1996 Site21/21 artspace, Albuquerque, NM, "Carpet"
    1991 P.S. 122 Gallery, New York, NY, installation:"An Exact Address"
    1987 Gallery Alexander Wood, New York, NY Gallery Alexander Wood, New York, NY, "Fire"
    1986 Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, NY, "The East Village"
    1985 City Without Walls Gallery, Newark, NJ, "Forbidden Dream", curated by Colleen Thornton City Without Walls Gallery, Newark, NJ, "Real/Surreal", curated by Colleen Thornton Sandy Webster Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, "Current Trends in New York Art""
    1984 Galerie Andre Emmerich, Zurich, Switzerland, "Inside the East Village"
    1983 Alexander F.Milliken Gallery, New York,NY "Three Part Variety", curated by David Wojnarowicz Gracie Mansion Gallery, New York,NY Sharpe Gallery, New York,NY, "Self Image"
    1980 Westbeth Painters Space, New York, NY
    Bibliography
    Huffington Post — May 27, 2011 Huffpost Arts/Haiku Reviews "The Three Dimensional Line," Peter Frank
    Seattle Post-Intelligencer — August 17, 2006 Arts and Entertainment, pg.C4, Regina Hackett
    Seattle Post Intelligencer — February 5, 2004, Arts and Entertainment, Regina Hackett
    Albuquerque Tribune — August 9, 1996,pg. B1, T.D. Mobley-Martinez
    New York Native — October 7, 1991, pg.43, David Hirsch
    Artnews, September — 1985, pg. 141, Maurice Poirer
    Details, September — 1985, Cookie Mueller
    Artnews — January 8, 1984, pg.160, Eleanor Heartney
    The East Village Eye — August, 1983
    Collections
    University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, WA
    Grants
    Artist's Fellowship Inc. New York,NY
    Teaching Experience
    Northwest College of Art
    North Seattle Community College
    Bellevue Art Museum
    Pratt Fine Arts Center
    Kirkland Art Center

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Oil on canvas 55" x 55"