I paint because I must. I paint for the memory of my daughter who loved animals.
I paint because I must. I paint for the memory of my daughter who loved animals.
Michael Chomick was born in Vancouver, Canada, and is the fifth of 7 children of Andrew and Marisa Chomick.
His first introduction to the world of art-making came during the visits to the basement of the family’s home. This is where both of his parents practiced their hobbies of fine art-making through painting with oil, sculpting with clay, and/or colourful tile mosaics.
Michael Chomick was born in Vancouver, Canada, and is the fifth of 7 children of Andrew and Marisa Chomick.
His first introduction to the world of art-making came during the visits to the basement of the family’s home. This is where both of his parents practiced their hobbies of fine art-making through painting with oil, sculpting with clay, and/or colourful tile mosaics.
At the young age of 11 his parents decided to leave Canada and relocated the entire family to the Caribbean island nation of Barbados. During the two-year stint on the island this is where Chomick began his artistic career by writing and illustrating his own-brand of Super Hero comic books. These early comic books gave way to his current style and technique of painting and drawing – works that are derived from a mind-set of spontaneity, with no preconceived thought, and created from the subconscious.
Two years later, St. Petersburg, Florida became the artist’s next place of residency. There, after the completion of high school, he entered into the world of commercial art.
After 11 years in the aforementioned vocation, September, 1986, he altered his artistic direction and veered his creative force towards what has become his life’s mission – that of a thought-provoking visual artist.
The 30+ years Chomick has been experimenting and practicing his talents as a thought-provoking visual artist delving into a variety of mediums ranging from ink or graphite drawing to figurative oil painting to mixed media constructions.
In his many travels such as Japan, Europe, and the Americas (North, Central and South), in addition to places of residencies, such as Miami Beach, Florida; Austin, Texas; and now Los Angeles, California, Chomick has gathered inspiration and stimulation by such life experiences.
During Chomick’s career as an award winning contemporary artist his works have been exhibited both nationally and internationally in selected solo and group exhibitions.
Considered an ‘outsider artist’, I express through sculpture, exploring my ideas using a variety of media.
Inspiration for my art, comes from dreams, myths, intuition and adventures.
My work is mainly figurative with root influences from what I experience—–the pain and pleasure of life.
I aim to create with passion and freedom, to tell a story through my work, of my life and the life of others.
Each sculpture is individual and an edition of one….
Considered an ‘outsider artist’, I express through sculpture, exploring my ideas using a variety of media.
Inspiration for my art, comes from dreams, myths, intuition and adventures.
My work is mainly figurative with root influences from what I experience—–the pain and pleasure of life.
I aim to create with passion and freedom, to tell a story through my work, of my life and the life of others.
Each sculpture is individual and an edition of one….
Featured Artist – Elizabeth Hermann
Grafting and merging are boring. They happen in nature. Collisions are interesting. Explosions don’t happen so often in nature—they require a particularly human capability for catastrophe. E started broken, continues hungrily, and pursues art content relentlessly. E encourages explosions. E’s agenda considers art’s democratic potential, the intrinsic overarching umbrella nature of the medium, collaboration and writing as imperative components in the process, and graphic design’s trend toward the fine arts in the post-print interdisciplinary environment. E wants your discarded bits, the castoff trash of restless purchasing power. Artists regularly claim technologies that are no longer commercially viable, but E also repurposes cultural elements and physical junk. This includes cardboard boxes and entire carnivals. Instead of justifying how these themes fit together, E argues they cannot without some fire. As famed thinker Franz Ferdinand queried, “What’s wrong with a little destruction?” E’s sandbox includes Adobe Illustrator, Potassium Ferricyanide, and civil disobedience. E’s work spans succulents, melted plastic, and guerrilla projection. Instead of justifying how these coexist, E breaks the one off in the other. And yes, then adds fire.
Outsider Art Magazine – Art from the Outside, is now accepting art submissions for our inaugural issue zero.
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