Pine Tree Sapling (Small), No. 4, Peach Sky and Rainbow Plant, 2020.
Egg tempera, raised 22k gold leaf, raised copper and aluminum leaf on hand-cut, gessoed
wood panel. 17 x 12 inches
Recently completed paintings Pine Tree Sapling (Small), No. 4, Peach Sky and Rainbow Plant, 2020 and Pine Tree Sapling (Small), No. 5, Under Full Moo, 2020 are new works from my on-going series exploring the renewing power of fire within natural landscapes on our planet. I started this series in 2019 preparing new paintings for my second solo exhibition at Fou Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.
In these painted and raise gilded landscapes, green saplings sprout around burnt and destroyed tree trunks. I am very aware that fire has the power to utterly destroy as seen in the annual fires in California and Brazil’s devastating broad clearing of the rain forest. However, life seems to find a way to return. Fires, man made or naturally occurring, clear forest floors and grasslands leave behind carbon nutrients. Nutrients for surviving plant seeds, sprouting new life and thus maintaining the timelessness of the cycle of life.
In all of my work, I purposely lead viewers into vibrant and splendid Utopias of Nature—a sign and symbol of what we could lose as we continue to threaten our environment. My vividly depicted landscapes, containing leaves, flowers and fruits, are all suspended in a state where time lapses and an instant becomes eternal—levitating in every moment, for the viewer, is the past, present and future.
Pine Tree Sapling (Small), No. 5, Under Full Moon, 2020.
Egg tempera, raised 22k gold leaf, raised copper and aluminum leaf on hand-cut, gessoed
wood panel. 17 x 12 inches
Michael Eade
Education
- New York University
- Oregon State University
- Staatlichen Akademie der Bildenen Kunste, Stuttgart
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2019
- Fou, MICHAEL EADE—past is present is future, Brooklyn, NY
2017
- Fou, MICHAEL EADE—REALMS OF THE SOIL, Brooklyn, NY
- Gary Marotta, MICHAEL EADE—RECENT PAINTINGS AND WATERCOLORS, Provincetown, MA
2016
- Gary Marotta, MICHAEL EADE—RECENT WORKS, Provincetown, MA
Selected Group Exhibitions
- Gropius Bau, OUR PEACEABLE KINGDOM, Lee Mingwei project, Berlin, Germany
- Susan Eley, PAPER TRAIL, NY
- Susan Eley, ON THE ROCKS, NY
- Noyes Museum, VIRTUAL/VISUAL, Atlantic City, NJ
- Fou Gallery, A PIECE OF PAPER, Brooklyn, NY
- Museum Blue, INTAGLIO, St. Louis, MO
Public Art
- PERCENT FOR ART, NY
- SAN FRANCISCO ARTS COMMISION, Zuckerberg General Hospital
- METRO TAIPEI - Songshan Station, Taipei
- METRO TAIPEI - San Chong Station, Taipei
- HERMÈS, ARTIST'S WINDOWS- MICHAEL EADE— THE FOUR RIVERS OF PARADISE, NY
- MTA - Arts for Transit, Times Square Station, NY
Lectures and Interviews
HONGKUN USA, NY, NY
WOMR 92.1 fm, Provincetown, MA
Residencies
- Hermitage Artist Retreat
- Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop
- ALJIRA
Collections
- Zuckerberg General Hospital
- Library of Congress
- AT&T
- Harvard Business School
- HERMÈS
Catalogues
- MICHAEL EADE: past is present is future, FOU GALLERY
- MICHAEL EADE: Realms of the Soil, FOU GALLERY
- MYSELF, Contemporary Self—Portraits, Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery, University of Nevada, Reno, NV
- Timeless: The Art of Drawing, Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ
- If You Were Here, ArtsPlace Gallery, Lexington, KY
- MICHAEL EADE: Between Heaven and Earth, Triangle Gallery, Dayton, OH
Image and Text Courtesy of the Artist.
Edited by Sue and Emily
