Michael J. Zwicky
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Michael J. Zwicky

LOCATION
Appleton, WI
MEDIUM
Painting
STYLE
Abstract | Alternative Process | Street Art | Psychedelic Abstract | Alternative Process | Street Art
WEBSITE
michaeljzwickyartist.com
FOLLOW
@mjzdrums

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Painter, sculptor, musician, and recording artist Michael J. Zwicky was a pivotal figure on the Lower East Side of New York City in the 1980s and 1990s. He and his groups, Demo Moe and Scrap Metal Music, were reviewed in publications including The Village Voice, NY Press, and Spin Magazine. His work has been featured in the books The Rivington School: 80s New York Underground (2021) and The Williamsburg Avant-Garde: Experimental Music and Sound on the Brooklyn Waterfront (2023). His commissioned sculptural installation, Drilt! (2021), remains on permanent exhibition at the International Fusion Museum in Easton, Pennsylvania.

CREATIVE PROCESS

My work is influenced by Graffiti, Surrealism & Expressionism, Jungian archetypes & their symbolic mythologies. I create this abstract imagery, the unforeseeable result of which speaks to each viewer with what they uniquely bring to the work. I am very interested in the physics of paint and how it can be applied. The paint records not only the psyche and the spirit, but the corporeal as well. I like to use found materials whenever I can, giving new life to items destined to be otherwise laid to waste.

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