..the last painting for the Edge of Abstraction Exhibition at Anglin Smith Fine Art finally arrived at the gallery today, was hung, and I was let know that one of last weeks / earlier arrivals had already sold……

autumn on the pond 48″ x 30″
mixed media (watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed birch panel)
available at Anglin Smith Fine Art Gallery, 9 Queen Street, Charleston, South Carolina
(part of the Edge of Abstraction Exhibition – June 6 – 20, 2014)
anglinsmith.com / [email protected] / 843.853.0708

John McCrae wrote; Jackson Pollock like. I heard a lecture from a professor of Parson’s School of Design at the Museum of Modern Art several years ago on Pollock’s work that resembles your mixed media painting. I really like it.

thanks for the comparison – a friend wrote of my work; . This artist has an uncanny ability to isolate the essence of a landscape, and then illuminate the small part of the whole, which becomes the very symbol of that which it represents. That, of course, is what abstraction is all about; but the genius of Micheal Zarowsky is that he presents the effect of abstraction while he is actually painting in a realistic way some isolated element that signifies, with utmost economy, the wider scene.

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understanding uncertainty in a mess of overwhelmingness…….

(having no personal defenses, i am easily drawn to the familiar;  changing how i live means distrusting the familiar, a Kierkegaardian leap of faith into openness as it were, across the chasm of continuity while maintaining consistency;  ‘home on the range’ when i do not know where i am going….the difficulty lies in leaving ideas after briefly exploring them as a way of maintaining the uncertainty in which i find new ideas to lose myself in……)

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‘autumn dropped leaves any old place down the hillside all across the season’
24″ x 32″      mixed media (watercolour / acrylic painted directly on absorbent ground on gessoed birch panel)

compliments from facebook friends that make a transformation to listening……

Patricia Adams Spivey Painting pictures with words and speaking thoughts with paint – beautiful expressions, each!

Micheal Zarowsky Good Morning Patricia, your way with words is like honey to a bee, thanks
It is a struggle, both of them, but i want as complete an experience as i will probably never step in that moment again

‘beginning of days’   16″ x 17.5″  Mixed media    mixed media (watercolour / acrylic painted directly on absorbent ground on gessoed birch panel)

James V. Chism shared your photo: “Amazing artist and ‘poet’ (in my opinion)”

Micheal Zarowsky:   Poet exceeds me;  There is no one way to describe or for that matter interpret any painting, and i certainly do not want to limit in any way the ambiguity inherent in it  / i enjoy hearing what anyone takes away from each work and simply ramble on a bit to try and kick start / open up any dialogue that may or may not be forthcoming…..but thanks James, you’re very kind..