Michael Schall
Michael Schall
Workspace Program Resident 2010
In contrast to my regular studio practice of making highly detailed and controlled drawings, the work made in this residency uses the process of paper making as a way to lose control of the final image. By manipulating graphite-tinted pulp with an air gun on the surface of a freshly pressed sheet of paper, I had very little control over the hazy, cloud-like forms that resulted. In an attempt to regain control and contain the image, once the paper had dried, I then went back in and drew scaffolding and cage-like structures around these forms.
— Michael Schall, 2010
In the Studio
About the Artist
Michael Schall received a Masters in Fine Arts from Pratt Institute.Schall is a Pollock-Krasner Foundation fellow (2008), the recipient of a Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant (2007), and an artist in residence at the McColl Center for Visual Art in Charlotte, North Carolina.In 2009 he had his second solo exhibit, The Augmented Fourth, at Pierogi Gallery. Select group exhibitions include the National Academy Museum’s 185th Exhibition of Contemporary American Art, and exhibitions at Dam Stuhltrager Gallery in Brooklyn, Neuberger Museum in Purchase, New York and the Urbis Art Center in Manchester, England. Michael was also awarded an additional grant from the New York Artists Workspace Consortium to augment his residency at Dieu Donné through the exploration of a light and shade watermarking technique. Schall lives and works in Brooklyn, where he is represented by Pierogi Gallery.
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