Example: Poetry Published in a Literary Journal
silhouette
of leafless tree
stunning in
fine tracery
pretty shell
dead inside
lacquered by
retreating tide
line of sun
dot of rain
simple
existential plane
corridors
of thought sublime
dimly lit
and full of grime
harmony
in soot and lead
pigeon soaring
overhead
Example: Interview Published in a Marketing Journal
Michael
St.Germain’s intimately-scaled ink drawings are reminiscent of vast ocean
spaces, dark psychological entities and menacing atmospheric conditions.
The drawings
are the result of an unpremeditated journey in which haste and decisiveness
conspire to create an all-or-nothing visual proposition. According to
St.Germain, “Ink is rapidly and uncritically daubed, dragged and splashed upon
the ivory-white picture plane with a janitor’s mop. The finished drawings are
discovered during the process of floating a picture mat over the visual chaos.”
The drawings,
literally created with a sweep of an arm, suggest real-world places that are
distorted by being rendered with multiple perspectives.
Example: Artist Statement
I employ
abstraction to create the illusion of reality. My engagement with materials is
mediated by Pareidolia: “a psychological phenomenon involving a vague and
random stimulus (often an image or sound) being perceived as significant.”* My
works embody arbitrary rules, accumulation of materiel and musculoskeletal
bias.
I value
relative experience and unintended aesthetic consequences. I see artistic
potential in literary, sensory and aesthetic misinterpretation. My role, as an
artist, is to create and promote an opt-in supplemental reality. This real and imagined
“aesthetic hybrid “is affected (and actualized) by each viewers’ emotional
climate, susceptibility to illusion and ability to exist in the present moment.
*Wikipedia
Example: Press Release
East
Boston, MA- December 6, 2012- Atlantic Works Gallery is pleased to present “cool and
distant” a quiet and quirky exhibition of smaller-than-life paintings, drawings
and objects by multifaceted artist Michael St.Germain.
“Cool
and distant” reveals the unexpected, humorous and poignant visual adventures of
an artist more versed in artistic process than emotional self-awareness.
Atlantic
Works Gallery is
located at 80 Border Street in East Boston, footsteps from the foodie-paradise
that is known as Maverick Square. The gallery has dramatic “across the water”
views of Charlestown and the Tobin Bridge.
Take a well-deserved break from your holiday shopping and visit Atlantic Works Gallery. It is a 12-minute drive from Copley Square and is easily accessible by the MBTA Blue Line.
Save these
dates!
Opening
Reception: Saturday, December 6, from 7pm-9pm
Third Thursday
Reception: Thursday, December 18, from 6pm-9pm
Gallery Hours:
Friday and Saturday, December 12-13 and December 19-20, from 2pm-6pm.
Open by
Appointment: Monday-Sunday, December 22-28, from 10am-3pm
Contact:
Michael
St.Germain
michaelastgermain@gmail.com
Cell.
617-448-4313
Example: Article Published in a Marketing Journal
Example: Art Review
Anna
Salmeron's "A Day of Orange"
This
is a photographic assemblage by Anna Salmeron consisting of digital prints
affixed to mat board. The board is scored between the 1st and 2nd and 3rd and
4th columns so that it stands on the table much like a portable altar. This
presentation is a fitting tribute to Anna's apparent affection for the color
orange in its rich variety of everyday manifestations.
"A
Day of Orange" is an orchestration of 16 "trophies" from an
artist's self-imposed day long photographic scavenger hunt. Visually, it is
composed much in the way that an abstract painting is. Shapes and colors are
arranged so that there is an overall sense of visual drama and
"balance." The work operates much like an organism in which
individual cells can be seen...
The
simultaneous presentation of a variety of subjects suggests a narrative work.
Evidently, "A Day of Orange" documents the visual and compositional
appetites of an artist under self-imposed parameters (orange in every photo) at
specific (yet undefined) times and locations. There is a seductive openness to
the variety of images which may urge many a viewer to construct his or her own
story...
After
the conceptualization of this work, its completion was swift and
straightforward. Digital photos were taken and printed by the artist on her
home computer. A selection of same-sized prints was then fit into the
compositional skeleton of the Modernist grid. The final arrangement was
glued...
I mention
this not to detract from the aesthetic value of the work, but to point out the
urgency and direct method employed by the artist to reach her goal. "A Day
of Orange" has all of the best qualities of a powerful sketch. It is
decisive, quickly realized and economical in its enumeration of an idea. It
suggests the potential creation of a large scale work but is extremely potent
on its own terms...
Example: Text and Image
"The Most Interesting Artist in the World"
Couplets |
of
storm’s head
sun-bleached
gull
with
wings widespread
melancholy
thud
of bell
chained
to tarnished
face
of swell
with
silver crests
and
lapis faces
waves
march through
cold
empty places
wind
skips over
aqueous
hide
sweeps
dark hackles
to
the side
empty
sky
open
sea
monochrome
infinity
Rap Lyrics
|
"The King of Art"
I’m the King of Art
A slacker inspired
Grad students make my work
I never grow tired
I’m the host with the most
The present of the post
I’ll be quaffin’ ennui
'Til I give up my ghost
Best believe the hype
I’m an archetype
You’re jealous of my gifts
Which you may never swipe
And rate as great
So don’t be jealous when
I’m hanging at the Tate
I drink old wine
And eat Ritz crackers
Snag brie cheese
From huge platters
I hang my works
With tackle and boom
People are astonished by
My fluency in gloom
I’m into beanbags and shag
I dress in drag
Once on my Learjet
I puked and missed the bag
I’m the toast of the yacht
With irony I got
Deconstructing discourse
Is the gift that I brought
I’m a connoisseur of kitsch
A post-ironic bitch
I dine with hedge fund managers
They always make me rich
They always make me rich
I’m the fakir of myth
A maker of fables
Got impasto as thick
Got impasto as thick
As shit in Augean stables
I Twitter, I chatter
I’m into anti-matter
I make pancakes
And splatter Pollock batter
My mother is MoMA
My Father is Dada
They Met for Moca
But I prefer Coolata
I sculpt with detritus
And piles of raw shit
When Im feeling crafty,
I sit and then I knit
I’m yin, I’m yang
Arch-ambassador of slang
Commemorating NASA
Commemorating NASA
With sculptures made of Tang
I got a cube that's white
Full of northern light
Full of northern light
Greater chiaroscuro
Than day and night
Than day and night