BIOGRAPHY
MY WORK
Numerous solo and group exhibitions have taken place since Michael started showing his art in galleries in 1990. Awards, commissions, and collections nationally and internationally were soon to follow. Over time, painting moved into printmaking & mixed-media collage and graphic design merged with photography all to become a unique style and voice of his own. Michael’s full body of work exudes a sense of commitment, discipline and a mastery of composition and technique all based on connected aspects of his of work from many years of exploration of concept and medium.
EXPERIENCE
Michael Yurick has over 30 years of experience in the field of graphic design and advertising art direction. A seasoned professional, Michael has worked in the private and corporate sectors as an art director in the corporate communications division of a Fortune 500 corporation, a senior art director for a NYC based advertising agency, a senior graphic designer for an East Hampton design firm, an Associate Professor for Southampton College and as a business owner of an incorporated, NYC based graphic design firm. Michael brings with him a highly developed sense of creative problem solving for a varied and extensive client base while his fine art background brings balance and innovation to every project.
CV
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
Michael was commissioned by P&O Cruises, a British Line, to create 35 original works of art ‑ 25 mixed media collage works and 10 paintings for their newest luxury cruise ship, Britannia, launched from Southampton, England in March 2015.
MIXED MEDIA COLLAGE PAPER NO.41 CRITIQUE
John Crowther, Art Critic | altamira.art
Michael Yurick’s Paper No.41 lies somewhere between sculpture, collage, and work on paper. Architectural, abstract, and geometric, the work is at once an investigation of form and space and evocative of densely overlapping city buildings. The hard-lined geometric abstraction is complemented and belied by the fractured nature of the work. Reminiscent of the chaotic intentionality of a cityscape, Paper No.41 feels like a deconstructed whole that has been beautifully yet irrevocably rearranged. His restraint with color finds its opposite in the intensity of the work’s three-dimensionality. Had Yurick indulged in a bright palette, the protrusion of elements and contrasts they form would have overwhelmed the work and rendered it visually inaccessible. Like with all great cities, there is a beautiful balance between chaos and intention.
PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
The Art Students League of New York, Jury Selected
The New York Public Library Print Room, Jury Selected
Numerous private collections nationally and internationally
Invited artist, East End Hospice Box Art Auction since 2010
STATEMENT
ARTISTS’ STATEMENT: MIXED MEDIA COLLAGE
Michael’s mixed media collage works are based on the deconstruction of the grid with hard line raised relief and dimensional construction. Capturing photographic images within a fleeting moment of time when the sun is not too high and positioned at a desired angle a figure is posed. At that moment the elongated and distorted cast is captured. The collage is then constructed as a study of the individual or object, giving each completed work a personality of its own. In time, these mixed media works evolved into the combined use of other found elements such as paint, metallic color, corrugated cardboard, museum board and paper. The raised construction, combined with relief, gives an added dimension of the movement of light and shadow.
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