Michael Hinkle
Born: October
2, 1969
Education:
New York
University, NY - Appraisal Studies in Fine and Decorative Art, 2001
Axia College -
Associate Arts Degree – Business, 2009
University of
Phoenix - Bachelor of Science Degree – Marketing, 2011
Selected
Exhibitions:
2012 Solo Exhibition - Hinkle Moderne, Gallery 446, Palm Springs, CA
2011 Featured
Installation, Savage Gallery, Palm Springs, CA
2011 Solo
Exhibition, World Museum of Erotic Art, The Netherlands
2010 Group
Exhibition, Desert Art Source, CA
2010 Group
Exhibition, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, CA
2007 Solo
Exhibition, Evocative Arts Gallery, CA
2006 Solo
Exhibition, The Figurative Gallery, CA
2006 Group
Exhibition, Evocative Arts Gallery, Palm Springs, CA
2005 Group
Exhibition, Cheebo, West Hollywood, CA
2004 Solo
Exhibition, The Figurative Gallery, CA
2003 Solo
Exhibition, The Figurative Gallery, CA
2002 Group
Exhibition, The Figurative Gallery, CA
1998 Group
Exhibition, Seattle, WA
Publicity/Publications:
2011, 100
Artists of the Male Figure, E. Gibbons
2010, Santa
Monica, Crussell Fine Arts
2007, The
Desert Sun, Featured Article
2007, Absolute
Palm Springs, Featured Article
2007,
Saputo-Beale Enterprises, Featured article
2007,
Frontiers Media, Featured Article
2006,
Saputo-Beale Enterprises, Cover and featured Article
2006, Hyperion
Media, LLC, Featured Article
2005, The
Desert Sun, Featured Article
Statement:
I
have been chasing the art my entire life. As a young boy growing up in the Palm
Springs area I remember being pulled out of school for day trips to Los Angeles
area museums. I was obsessed with cartoons, drawing, photography, television,
and magazines. My parents encouraged my creative side and supported my need to
express myself by buying art supplies and letting me turn my bedroom into an
artists studio littered with drawings, magazine clippings, and experimental
works-in-progress.
I
have been modeling for photographers for over 20 years and have collected a
catalogue of images that I often use for my self-portrait figurative paintings.
Most of the early paintings were experimental, but from my first piece to the
latest work, whether figurative, floral, or architectural they are all
connected and involve a similar process. Words like love, and symbols such as
my birth year (1969 and 69), tally marks, and my initials are reoccurring graffiti-like
elements in all of the paintings. The paintings are moments in time and they
are autobiographical.
The
process of creating the imagery and making a new painting is unpredictable. I
have to approach the ideas with the understanding that I need to be open to
allowing the unknown to guide me. I feel lucky when a new work is completed
because many things need to fall into place for it to be right and balanced.
My
art attempts to spin artifacts of memory, censorship, and eroticism into
impressions of dynamic beautiful obfuscation. Inspiration for my paintings is
derived from the human body, architecture, photography, color, lines, rhythm,
nature, media, and aspects of contemporary culture. The paintings are
multilayered and complicated, just like us. I am trying to push the boundaries,
and create something new and interesting as a presentation of the world I live
in.