Sheldon to host emerging artist Mike Cloud, an emerging artist whose work has won favorable reviews in The New York Times and The New Yorker, will open his first solo museum exhibition April 4 at the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery.
EMERGING ART - The Mike Cloud exhibition includes this oil on linen with toy titled "Don't Wake Daddy with D." Courtesy Photo/Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery.
"Mike Cloud: Systems" presents a selection of the artist's most recent paintings and collages. Cloud will be in-residence at the Sheldon April 2 to 8 to discuss his art with university and public school students. Cloud is interested in paint as a physical artifact, painting as a historical and philosophical concept, and storytelling as a visual language. He uses systems - such as algorithms and grids - to slow a viewer's process of looking. Cloud received a bachelor's degree in fine arts at the University of Illinois at Chicago and received his master's in fine arts from Yale in 2003. At 4 p.m. April 4, the artist and Daniel Siedell, Sheldon curator, will discuss Cloud's work in the gallery's auditorium. A reception will follow. The event is free and open to the public.
