| Michael Batty Ipswich Drawing #6, 2003 Graphite on vellum 8”x8” / 16”x16” framed Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston |
| Mark Moore Fine Art is proud to announce that the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston has acquired a work on paper by artist MICHAEL BATTY for its permanent collection. Michael Batty is an artist that operates with a formal language arising from a microcosm of the particle world. The minimalist pieces speak with geometry and line, and explores the balance between order and chaos by introducing random elements to the tightly rendered surfaces. The artist builds up a webbed network of intersecting lines by cutting into the surface of the painting with a knife; creating thin ridges and minute grooves. The incised lines catch and divert the paint, creating a random ground of pigment with a shifting depth of color to create quantum imagery.The Ipswich Series works were created in 2003 after a canoe trip in Boston on the Ipswich River. Recalling nature and the reflection of the trees in the water. They are an echo, comprised of a single line bouncing throughout the pictorial space. They also served as studies and possibilities for the Cut Line Abstraction Series. Michael Batty graduated from the Emily Carr College of Art and design in Vancouver BC with a major in painting. He attended the renowned Emma Lake Artist Workshops in Northern Saskatchewan in the years spanning 1993-1996. He also studied printmaking at the Art institute at Capilano College in Vancouver BC. Batty’s paintings can be found in collections around the world, including the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Waldorf Astoria in Beijing, China, W Guangzhou, China, Four Seasons, Dubai, UAE, White Plains, New York and the Bank of Montreal in Calgary and Toronto. The artist’s practice currently includes painting, drawing, photography, and sculpture. The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), is an art museum located in the Houston Museum District of Houston, Texas. The permanent collection of the museum spans more than 5,000 years of history with nearly 80,000 works from six continents. The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) is the oldest art museum in Texas. In 1917, the museum site was dedicated by the Houston Public School Art League (later the Houston Art League) with the intention of becoming a public art museum. The first museum building was opened to the public in 1924.The original building, designed by Houston architect William Ward Watkin in the Greek Neoclassical style, is the first art museum built in Texas. Today the MFAH encompasses three buildings, the Caroline Wiess Law, Audrey Jones Beck, and Nancy and Rich Kinder buildings, that house its primary collections and temporary exhibitions; two decorative arts house museums; The Glassell studio art school; a sculpture garden; a facility for conservation, storage and archives; and an administrative building with the Glassell Junior school of Art. |
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