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Headshot of American Artist, Michael Torres with face hidden behind a flesh-colored paint daub

Michael Torres

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BIO

1975

photo of dust and airborn yard debris, from a strong dust storm in Lubbock Texas

a mid-career

American Artist

now living and working

in            Austin, Texas.

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he is an

oil painter, primarily

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and

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a  SURREalist  in voice

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multi-disciplinary

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       inter-disciplinary

by necessity

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because

of the INHERENT

obscurity of his

subject...

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The Unconscious

Michael started drawing at a very young age

keenly aware of AND CURIOUS about the underlying essence of things,

a sense of connectivity that he yearned to depict, but couldn't articulate

with the structural limitations of representational art...

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POrtraits

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sTill lifes

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LANDscapes

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all of which

are intended to convey the observable (surface).

This prompted a re-evaluation of his creative process

pencil portrait of an unrequited highschool crush, 1992

1992

 

guiding Michael to adopt the Psychoanalytic and surrealist method of

image of the phonetic spelling for automatism
traced outlines of automatic ink drawing, "Stream of Consciousness"

Automatism

(random mark making)

not in rebellion, but as a compliment to more traditional techniques, purely employed for the development of a more specialized visual vocabulary.

As a result, the imagery in Michael's work is rarely linear in practice, but instead submits to the will of a hidden message, yearning to be ILLUMINATED

TRANSLATED

and INTEGRATED into rational thought

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Ultimately arriving at Surrealism as a Result of serious inquiry, rather than as a Means for pure spectacle. 

Academic Honors:

Although Michael is Self-Taught, having Independently Studied the works of Old Masters to Contemporaries, Michael's unique vision has also been academically recognized; first, for its potential; then, for its notable development, 20 years later.

  • 2012 ~ Guest Speaker for Art Studies, Texas Tech University

  • 1992 ~ Fine Arts Scholarship, Texas Tech University

Michael's Exhibition History will be found in the introductions to their respective creative periods (linked below).

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