Immediacy: Miguel Angel

A New Jersey native born in 1973, Miguel Angel first became aware of paintings during a school field trip to a New York City art museum. This set off a passion for drawing and color. Miguel Angel's work is comprised of a diverse arrangement and media to create an original and aggressively unique artistic voice. While experimenting with past representations of objects such as still life, figurative and sculpture, his practice merges abstraction, figuration, color and painting. Angel's influences are found in African art/culture as well as the artistic giants such as Picasso, Matisse, Basquiat, Lupertz and Velazquez. Jazz and hip-hop has also played an integral part in Angel's expressionistic and improvisational style. The combination of which bring about an array of styles and vivid colors, luring depictions of masked figures, splatters of piled on paint, ubiquitous under-drawings and endless findings of expressive urgency which bear his emphatic signature and freedom.