about
Mike King (b. 1987) is a painter from Austin, TX living in Brooklyn, NY. The subject of his work varies from nostalgia of past experiences–derelict or bright–to a critical look at his own American upbringing. His vibrant paintings capture a culmination of his visual observations.
His work utilizes color, shape, line in the form of the grid, and material properties to construct his patchwork-like paintings. As a veteran of the US Navy’s construction force, his construction background finds new inspiration in the assemblage idea to “build a painting.” To do so, he applies layers of recycled scrap textiles to an existing blueprint, while intuitively composing a grid onto his paintings.
Mike’s artwork brings together concepts from constructivism, assemblage, color field painting, process art, and painting history broadly to create his vivid scenes. These paintings are glitches in time between places and ideas, and often refer to universal symbols from his illustrative vernacular.
Mike graduated with a BFA from Pratt Institute in 2022. He spent 2023 in Buenos Aires, Argentina at the Taller Paz Soldan and most recently Good Dad Studios in Austin, TX. Mike is the founder and head designer for the upcycled fashion brand Emphasis on Line, and will be an MFA candidate in Studio Art at Hunter College this Fall.
His work utilizes color, shape, line in the form of the grid, and material properties to construct his patchwork-like paintings. As a veteran of the US Navy’s construction force, his construction background finds new inspiration in the assemblage idea to “build a painting.” To do so, he applies layers of recycled scrap textiles to an existing blueprint, while intuitively composing a grid onto his paintings.
Mike’s artwork brings together concepts from constructivism, assemblage, color field painting, process art, and painting history broadly to create his vivid scenes. These paintings are glitches in time between places and ideas, and often refer to universal symbols from his illustrative vernacular.
Mike graduated with a BFA from Pratt Institute in 2022. He spent 2023 in Buenos Aires, Argentina at the Taller Paz Soldan and most recently Good Dad Studios in Austin, TX. Mike is the founder and head designer for the upcycled fashion brand Emphasis on Line, and will be an MFA candidate in Studio Art at Hunter College this Fall.