Artist: Michael Klauke | Location: Cary, NC
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Artist: Michael Klauke | Location: Cary, NC
Cary, NC
Michael Klauke was born in Nebraska, raised in South Florida (where he studied art at Palm Beach Junior College), and then moved to North Carolina where he studied art at UNC-Chapel Hill.
He has always been fascinated by language and since the 1990s have made art that uses words in one way or another. His current series of drawings, like the one in this exhibition, are in a style I call “Textual Pointillism.” He did his first work in this style in 2001, as a response to the 9/11 attacks. Since then he continues to do drawings that create images solely with thousands of tiny, handwritten words. The words used always relate in some way to the image they create; sometimes the relationship is obvious, and other times it is more implicit.
He has received two Individual Artist Fellowships from the NC Arts Council, and had solo exhibitions at the Mint Museum of Art, SECCA, The National Humanities Center, and numerous other venues. His work is in the collections of the Mint Museum of Art, The Gregg Museum of Art and Design, The Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry, and many private collections.