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B i o g r a p h y Born in Buffalo, New York in 1988, Michael Kulik began generating artwork from the onset. His work has taken on a variety of forms and media over the decades, from exploring the curiosities of abstract and expressive compositions to hyperrealistic portraiture. A graduate of Art History and Fine Arts at the State University of New York College at Geneseo, Kulik’s admiration of historical art movements as departures from precedent prompted his exploration in surreal compositions, with nods to Classicism and the Renaissance. After college, Kulik attended graduate school at Clemson University in pursuit of a design career in landscape architecture. It was there that he met his wife Jordan, and upon graduation moved to Florida. As a practicing landscape architect for the last 7 years, Kulik’s experience ranges from large scale projects including resorts, zoos, hotels, urban design, and master planning. While concurrently producing paintings, Kulik’s breadth of design experience began to realign his artistic focus. Derived from years of articulating function and experience from the landscape, coalesced with influence from author David Abram (Spell of the Sensuous), Kulik’s work began to inherit a closer relationship to the mutually reactive dynamic between man and wild. Resultant paintings include serendipitous and uneasy closeups of fauna, ethereal cloudscapes, and exploratory plein air work illustrating the curiosity of the mundane. Kulik’s recent oil and acrylic paintings explore a range of sizes, from 72”x54” down to 3”x3” squares. He lives in Atlantic Beach, Florida with his wife Jordan, their two dogs, and parakeet.
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S t a t e m e n t
The Wild is a mirror of human thoughts and actions. The warmth of our touch transmuted to a cold stone, the scattering of frightened deer, or a refracted image on water’s surface are sensed and reacted to by the Wild that surrounds us. Our momentary glimpses and sensory encounters with each other inform our relative trajectories throughout existence. Enigmatic moments we’ve all shared with something wild linger in our memories. Whether it be an unpleasant experience with a defensive animal or the enveloping haze of morning fog, we can almost all conjure a story or intimate moment with the Wild that we struggle to define. To me, these moments inform our deep association to the natural world. It reminds me to be humbled that we have the privilege to share a parallel existence with wild ecologies; to react, and to be reacted to.
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C o n t e n t s F a u n a 5 Landscape 15 Observation 25 Epilogue as Prologue: Figure 39
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F a u n a
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He r o n (2 0 1 8)
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Dinner Party (2 0 17) Acrylic on Canvas 36”x50” mkulik137@yahoo.com @kulikstudio
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Avocado T hief (2 0 17) Acrylic on Canvas 30”x24” mkulik137@yahoo.com @kulikstudio
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Crane with Orchid (2 0 1 6) Acrylic on Canvas 40”x30”
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Blue Crab (2 0 1 8) Acrylic on Canvas 8”x10” mkulik137@yahoo.com @kulikstudio
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L a n d s c a p e
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Blue Fleet (2 0 1 8) Acrylic on Canvas 38”x38”
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Glow Asunder (2 0 1 8) Acrylic and Oil on Canvas 20”x30”
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Morning Storm (2 0 17) Acrylic on Canvas 48”x60”
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Atlantic Glass Sunset (2 0 17) Oil on Canvas 30”x40”
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Saguaro (2 0 1 8) Diptych Acrylic on Canvas 40”x60”
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Blue Sky (2 0 2 0) Oil on Canvas 18”x24”
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T h i s
P a g e
I n t e n t i o n a l l y
L e f t
B l a n k .
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O b s e r v a t i o n
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Blue Stout (2 0 1 8) Oil on Canvas 8”x10”
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Morning Cup (2 0 1 8) Oil on Canvas Board 8”x10”
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IPA & Orange (2 0 1 9) Oil on Canvas 8”x10”
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Clementines and Coffee (2 0 1 8) Oil on Canvas 8”x10”
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Ye l l o w B u i l d i n g a n d Fo o d Tr u c k (2 0 2 0) Oil on Canvas 8”x10”
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Red Chair (2 0 2 0) Oil on Canvas 8”x10”
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Sunspots (2 0 2 0) Oil on Canvas 8”x10”
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Dark Clouds and Short Lines (2 0 2 0) Oil on Canvas 8”x10”
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Live Oak (2 0 2 0) Oil on Canvas 8”x10”
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Curious Orchids (2 0 1 8) Oil on Canvas 8”x10”
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Lemons (2 0 1 8)
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Oil on Canvas 4”x4”
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Grapefruit (2 0 1 8)
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Bananas (2 0 1 8)
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E p i l o g u e P r o l o g u e : F i g u r e
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Seated Woman with Footrest (2 0 0 7) Charcoal and Graphite on Drawing Paper 24”x36”
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Seated Man on Steps (2 0 0 7) Charcoal and Graphite on Drawing Paper 24”x36”
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Pe ns ive Woman (2 0 0 6) Graphite on Drawing Paper 24”x36”
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Seated Man with Blanket (2 0 0 7) Charcoal on Drawing Paper 24”x36”
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The Lounge (2 0 0 7) Charcoal and Graphite on Newsprint 24”x36”
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Seated Man: Contour Study (2 0 0 7) Graphite on Drawing Paper 24”x36”
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Ta n g l e (2 0 0 7) Graphite on Newsprint 18”x24”
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G i r l w i t h M i r r o r (R e p r o d u c t i o n S t u d y) (2 0 0 8) Sanguine Chalk, Graphite, Charcoal on Drawing Paper 16”x24”
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Study of T he Laocoon (2 0 0 7) Charcoal on Newsprint 18”x24”
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