Please mark your calendar and visit my shows!
Four in the Fall of 2024:
Oxford Arts Alliance
10th Annual National Juried Exhibition
38 S. Third Street
Oxford, PA 19363
Show runs from:
October 4 - October 25, 2024
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Circle Gallery
Maryland Federation of the Arts
18 State Circle
Annapolis MD 21401
Show runs from:
October 31 - November 23, 2024
Closing Reception:
November 23, 2024, 4-6 pm
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Gallery 220
220 N. Washington Street
Havre de Grace, MD 21078
Art from a Soldier
Opening Reception:
Friday October 25, 2024, 6-8pm
The show runs from:
October 26 - December 8
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Howard County Center for the Arts
8510 High Ridge Road
Ellicott City, Maryland 21043
e-mail: info@hocoarts.org
Art Maryland 2024
Opening Reception:
October 18th 6-8pm
The show runs from:
October 11 - November 16, 2024
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Look forward to two in 2025
Exact dates pending:
Yumi Hogan International Art Gallery
BWI Marshall Airport
Baltimore, MD 21240
January 2025 - August 2025
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The Columbia Art Center
6100 Foreland Garth
Columbia, MD 21045
Fall of 2025
Michael Sweet, Pointillist
Cassandrias Peacock (2020) 10x20. In private collection.
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Mr. Sweet is an outsider artist, not schooled in the traditional sense. The fact that he radically conjures images through pointillism is what makes things genuinely interesting. His goal is to grab the viewer’s attention for more than a few seconds and engage them in contemplation with a touch of the miraculous.
At present, he layers dots upon dots, blending colors before the paint is applied to the canvas, to create textured paintings. He works in acrylics because he needs the paint to dry quickly. Each point of paint propels the viewer into the seemingly infinite progression the artist’s practice engenders, while pulling them back to search for the original referent that underlies Mr. Sweet’s oeuvre. The process is the goal. Mr. Sweet often says that if it took patience to paint this way, he would take up a hobby. He paints according to intuition, not by the clock, acknowledging the reality of spatial constructs. The hours it takes to complete one of his works transmutes into a moment of reflection. Perhaps it could be considered a form of meditation. In this sense, the act of creation is his objective. His final form is enduring, rare and unique. |
Apparition of the Holy Spirit (2023) 11x14. Available for sale.
