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The paintings of Micah Ganske are powerfully ambiguous. Ganske's work can be seen as optimistically pessimistic, cynically sincere, or epically banal. Micah Ganske's work feels true to the complex world we live in where nothing is absolute, and where few problems are solved without moral compromise. Ganske's work speaks to these compromises as it alludes to environmental and cultural calamity, while simultaniously being unable to resist reveling in the Kantian sublime beauty of it all. The technique and process that Ganske has developed is possibly just as elusive as his subject matter. Ganske has spent his career developing a method of stain painting that is unlike anything being done in the art world today. Somewhere between Morris Lewis and batik fabric painting, the method of paint application can be so invisible that his brush-applied, acrylic on muslin paintings, are often initially mistaken as ink-jet prints.
Micah Ganske graduated from the Yale MFA program in 2005. He was selected as the winner of the Adobe Design Award for Digital Imaging at a gala event held at the Guggenheim Museum in New York also that year. Deitch Projects presented a solo show of his work in 2007, entitled Pictures Last Longer. In September 2008, his work was featured in Conceptual Figures, a group show curated by Jeffrey Deitch, at the 76 Grand Street gallery.
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