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Michael Pukac
www.michaelpukac.com
michaelpukac@gmail.com
Alabama born, Michael Pukac is a full-time Los Angeles based artist and live painter. He has acquired a reputation as a prolific live painter and established himself in the L.A. art community through numerous local shows. His unique blend of seductive, classical imagery is cross pollinated with a witty, contemporary edge of subtle satire – all doused in reflective paint.
Pukac had his first exhibition age 19 at The White House in Washington D.C. for a national display of student work and thereafter became one of the more recognized artists in Southern Alabama, selling out many featured and solo shows. He graduated from the Ringling School of Art and Design in 2003 in Sarasota , FL with a BFA focusing on painting. Since then he has made painting a full time gig, traveling the country, making a living off of his fine art, murals, and illustrations. During the past few years, Pukac has hosted and curated art events, art walks, illustrated a series of children's books that were recently published, and produced other live performances around the country.
“For me, painting is like a collision of concepts as much as it is a combination of skill and material. It is where the creatively abstract and intellectually complex concepts of translation, illusion, allusion, and transformation find a nexusI love to make playful paintings - heartfelt yet irrational. They are like romantic absurdities or well-spoken riddles with no answer - anti-narratives – designed to lure my audience into a world of mixed and matched myths and culture, literary gags, homages to great works of art, sexual metaphors, acts of overt futility, social commentary and to a place where there are no straight answers.”
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS
2010 The Hive Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2010 Cactus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2010 La Luz de Jesus Gallery “Everything but Kitsch n’ Sync, L.A.
2010 Melt gallery, “Night of Nick Nacks”Hollywood, CA
2009 Thinkspace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2009 Ave 50 Gallery, Highland Park, CA
2009M.A.W.L. Gallerie, Orange County, CA (Solo Show)
2009 Sipology Gallerie, Featured Artist, Long Beach, CA
2009 Bailey Gallery, “Pukac Safari”, Los Angeles, CA
2009 The Artery Gallery, “Illuminated” Costa Mesa, CA
2008 Coffee Haven “Fantasmagorical” Long Beach, CA
2008Tour des Artistes Live Art Festival, Long Beach, CA
2007 Paradigm Art Gallery,”Ricochet” Sarasota, FL
***This is an abbreviated list of the numerous art exhibitions and events nationwide in which Michael Pukac has participated during the past 10 years.***
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* None of the artworks may be copied or reproduced without the written permission of the Artist