MICHI MEKO: in group show Gut Feelings, Zuckerman Museum of Art, Kennesaw, GA 30144, USA, Jan 28 until May 7, 2017.
Poncha Train, 2015.
Join us for the debut of Gut Feelings, an exhibition that brings together a group of contemporary artists in whose work food, feeding, and cooking are symbolic representations of exchanged emotion.
About the artist:
As a multidisciplinary artist, The work draws influence from rural southern culture and contemporary urban subcultures. The works exist in various mediums to convey narratives based in the personal and historic. One has developed a system of gathering that allows hybridizing and remixing the content into a multilingual dialect that endows ordinary and rejected objects with spiritual powers. Mashing up iconography, narratives establish a new identity alluding to conditions both physical and psychological. The work considers Black Buoyancy or black bodies afloat. Imploring Black Navigation as a means of understanding Blackness, the works are mapped movements of positioning within known patterns of everyday life.
Maggot Brains, 2015.
“Michi Meko is a unique artist, whose works are somewhere on the border between graffiti and contemporary art. He is all South, and his works breathe it.
The Kit, 2015.
The result is simply stunning: extremely lively, extremely vibrant and deep, they are large, not only in dimensions but in their meaning. You can literally get lost in them, guessing and wondering where one layer ends and the other begins.
Travel and Luggage.
Multilayered, multicolored, multifaceted, these paintings are a contemporary puzzle, luring the audience into a world of many twists, turns and faces, places and lines, — they are unique, and unique in many senses. Meko is an artist and a keen psychologist, that’s what makes his paintings surprisingly real and always up to the point. – Kudago Revan Inc.
Unsophisticated Splashing, 2015.
His fascination with the relationship between physical and psychological is palpable in his work that blends clear, straightforward images with amorphous scribbling and other shapes. In a way, it kinda makes perfect sense Meko funded his Atlanta move with winnings from a gambling match with a flagrant Alabaman gangster. It’s his mysterious familiarity that draws you in.
— Beca Grimm (text from website artist)