Catnip 2015 - Huge

Year2015

Hand SignedLower Left 

Condition Excellent 

Framed without GlassBlack Frame 

Purchased fromGallery 2015 

Provenance / HistoryPurchased from Exclusive Collections Gallery in Seaport Village in San Diego CA. Original owner. 

Certificate of AuthenticityCrown Thorn Publishing 

Additional InformationVery Desired - Motivated 

LID172121

Michael Summers - United States

Art Brokerage: Park West Artist: Michael Summers American Artist: Michael Summers was born in Los Angeles sometime during the Carter administration. He grew up in Joshua Tree, California surrounded by a cavalcade of eccentric art-commune inhabiting social dropouts, idealistic dreamers, and rural American free thinkers. Art and creativity surrounded Michael from an early age and has been a pivotal part of who he is throughout his life. The meticulously crafted paintings of Michael Summers are firmly rooted in contemporary west coast surrealism with a strong pop sensibility. He uses his Pop Surrealist style as a tool to reflect his inner vision: creating the impossible and more importantly, making the impossible seem plausible. The artist creates imaginary characters - often alluding to mythical archetypes - in acrylic paint with a keen hyper-attentiveness. His unorthodox use of intense saturation and arbitrary, multi-chromatic hues encourages the viewer to look a little closer, a little longer. The recognizable subjects of animals, automatons, and humans suddenly become magical and extraordinary. Yet, they somehow still retain the nostalgia of a child-hood memory that was once long forgotten. Listings wanted.