Dan Michiels
1956 - 2018 ∙ CE artist from 2008 - 2018
Perhaps influenced by his travels of the world, Dan Michiels’ work has a distinct psychedelic gravity. Using a ruler, a pencil, and an array of color, he painstakingly created renderings of the mind’s action. His artwork can be liberally amorphous registrations of shape and color or pulsating, rigorous grid structures, carefully filled-in to create a tessellated all-over composition.
When compared to his reverberating abstractions, Michiels’ figurative pieces have a calm gestural touch and use a few spare lines to convey information.
Michiels’ work was transformed into several original fashion designs by Comme des Garçons for the Autumn/Winter 2013-14 collection. VIDA produced a curated collection of bright scarves, totes, clutches and glass trays using Michaels' psychedelic drawings. Click here to purchase Dan Michiels' Creativity Explored x VIDA products.
Select Exhibitions & Projects
2013
Dan Michiels, The Trading Museum - Comme des Garçons, Tokyo, Japan & Paris, France
2012
Out of Order, Creativity Explored, San Francisco, CA
2011
4 Real 4 Faux Animating the Vernacular, Truman State University Art Gallery, Kirksville, MO
2010
Spectrum, Creativity Explored, San Francisco, CA
2003
LIT: Lamps, Lanterns, and Shadow, Creativity Explored, San Francisco, CA