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Famous, Mike
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ARTIST BIO
Mike Famous 4343 N. Clarendon, Apt. 1011, Chicago, IL 60613
773.935.5681
Born in Muncie, Indiana, Mike Famous began his art studies in 1962 at Ball State University in Muncie. In 1970, he attended Yale University Summer School of Music and Art on a fellowship. Famous gained his BFA from the Herron School of Art in Indianapolis in 1971. In 1985, he was awarded an Illinois Arts Council Special Projects Grant.
Exhibitions selected
Solo Exhibitions
2003 Screens, Butters Gallery Ltd, Portland, OR
2001 New Paintings, Butters Gallery Ltd, Portland, OR
2000 Confusion Seen So Clearly, Butters Gallery Ltd, Portland, OR
1998 New Paintings, Butters Gallery Ltd, Portland, OR
1996 Butters Gallery Ltd, Portland, OR
1994 Butters Gallery Ltd, Portland, OR
1993 Butters Gallery Ltd, Portland, OR
1991 Butters Gallery Ltd, Portland, OR
Wade Wilson Gallery, Chicago, IL
1988 Butters Gallery Ltd, Portland, OR
1987 Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
1984 Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
1983 Whitehead Studies, Chicago, IL
1973 Loyola University, Lew Towers, Chicago, IL
1965 Madison Gallery, New York, NY
Group Exhibitions
2001 Artist Edit, Butters Gallery, Portland, OR
2000 Persistence: Collage, Butters Gallery, Portland, OR
1999 Eleventh Anniversary Show, Butters Gallery, Portland, OR
1998 Portland Paintings, Butters Gallery, Portland, OR
1997 totallybuttesoregon, Butters Gallery, Portland, OR
1995 Pocketsize, Butters Gallery, Portland, OR
1994 Revised Context, Butters Gallery, Portland, OR
1992 RetrospectiveeAnticipations, Butters Gallery, Portland, OR
1991 Ten Artists from Chicago, Butters Gallery, Portland, OR
1990 Forms and Formations, Butters Gallery, Portland, OR
Broken Barriers, Butters Gallery, Portland, OR
Collections selected
Saks Fifth Avenue
Indianapolis Museum of Art
Kienholz Collection
Katayama Framing
Private Collections
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STATEMENT
Mike Famous is a painter whose approach is antithetical to mine. Working with photographic images of decaying architectural structures, the original image is printed onto canvas and then altered with paints, thread, ink and collage. In the process we are both clarifying and intensifying the image in both subtle and intense ways.
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