Michael Kessler
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Moon Gazer
acrylic on canvas, 40 x 60, $8000
Treelines 4
acrylic on canvas on panel, 40 x 60, $8500
Skygraphs 13
, 12 x 79, $5000
Skygraphs 6
, 12 x 79, $5000
Skygraphs 5
, 12 x 79, $5000
Seabands
acrylic on canvas, 48 x 84, $14000
Revealed
acrylic on canvas, 77 x 55, $14000
Octameter
acrylic on canvas, 30 x 48, $6000
Half Full
acrylic on panel, 48 x 30, $5000
Focus Fields
acrylic on panel, 48 x 84, $14000
Clairification
acrylic on canvas, 77 x 55, $14000
Blue Birch
acrylic on panel, 84 x 52, $15000
Aspenized A2
acrylic on panel, 60 x 40, $8500
Birchgroves 23
acrylic on canvas, 48 x 60, $10000
Birchgroves 21
acrylic on canvas, 48 x 60, $10000
Birchbands 2
acrylic on panel, 48 x 84, $14000
Barkbeats 4
acrylic on panel, 16 x 48, $3000
Barkbeats 3
acrylic on panel, 16 x 48, $3000
Aspeniced
acrylic on canvas, 48 x 84, $14000
Focus Fields
acrylic on panel, 40 x 60 inches, $8000
Aspen Fields
acrylic on panel, 40 x 60 inches, sold
Celestial Sea
acrylic on panel, 36 x 48 inches, $6000
Gatedeepers
acrylic on panel, 28 x 70 inches, $5000
Reveled
acrylic on panel, 20 x 60 inches, $6000
SkyClip 6
acrylic on panel, 7 x 48 inches, sold
SkyClip 9
acrylic on panel, 10 x 48inches, sold
SkyClip 10
acrylic on panel, 10 x 48 each, sold
Stratspheris
acrylic on panel, 60 x 40 inches, $8000
Tidepools 28 x 70
acrylic on panel, 28 x 70 inches, sold
Beach 1
acrylic on panel, 6 x 12 inches
Beach 2
acrylic on panel, 6 x 12 inches
About the artist...
Michael Kessler was born in 1954 in Hanover, Pennsylvania and had his first art show in 1080. His abstract art awards include the Rome Prize for Painting from the American Academy in Rome in 1990 and the Pollock/Krasner Award in Painting. His modern artwork has been widely exhibited in the US and abroad via international and national galleries, and has been featured in over 150 SOLO exhibitions since 1983. Michael Kessler’s abstract contemporary paintings are widely collected and appear in over 20 museum collections in the US, including the Brooklyn Museum in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Appearances are deceptive, and anyone who is interested in the true nature of the universe knows that there are far more questions than answers. The more we know, the more we know we don’t know. I want my paintings to reflect both the desire to know and the futility of trying to know. I’m building a surface and not so much an image. I see my work as a metaphor for nature – about wondering how it (nature) got that way, realizing that we may never find out. I’m interested in beauty, but not a superficial or superfluous beauty – something deeper. It is daunting, but if you go through the forest at night enough times, eventually you get good at it.