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Artist Exhibitions:
ONE-PERSON SHOWS
1991 The Dell, restaurant &
gallery, Columbus, Ohio
1998 ACME Art Gallery,
Columbus, Ohio
2005 Gallery "M",
Dublin, Ohio
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1994 Carte Blanche, Columbus
Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio
1995 Invitational Award
Exhibition (Columbus Art
League),
Columbus
Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio
1998 Boyd Gallery,
Willmington College, ...
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Artist Galleries:
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Artist Reviews:
"...Michael Fornadley's four
paintings. Mostly in dyptych
formats, confusing but
terribly enticing frantic
human movements are about art
making (The League), human
relationships (Turtle), and
politics (The Spirit of
Molech). Temptation,
preaching, and amusements
confront his familiar-looking,
thirty-something-year-old
characters. In Mene Mene
Tekel Parsin, two...
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Collections:
Acme Gallery Auction, ten
private collectors, Columbus,
Ohio
"The Graven Image" private
collector, Columbus, Ohio
"My Easter Painting" Columbus
Museum of Art, Columbus,
Ohio...
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Commissions:
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Artist Statement for Michael Fornadley
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“Michael Fornadley, a painter from Pickerington, Ohio, labors under no illusion of plausibility, since his quirky tempera tableaus depict the odd antics of characters acting out improbably, confrontations in a theater of the absurd.”
The New York Times, 1998
All my life I have been creating images out of my imagination. As pointed out in The New York Times review, my work can be described as stories, relating to human relationships in the context of society. Compositions filled with narrative gestures, without any attempt to develop a narrative thread, drives the viewer to find a story, however, an unscripted conclusion is what they will find. Title’s to my tales are literary allusions occurring after the paintings are finished and the narrative to which the title refers is not a factor in the paintings evolution.
I describe my style as expression with intellect, opposites (thought and emotion), I try to balance both. I have always enjoyed the Expressionists movements in art and my work reflects this. My painting technique is traditional. The mediums I use are oils and egg tempera on wood, and wood cuts. Distinctive to my paintings are figures running, persons pointing, eccentric objects, mysterious boxes, and usually one person in the background watching impassively. I lead the eye through a theatrical space. Moving from turned head, to pointed finger, to a figure by a peculiar object, enticing the observer to ponder a logical conclusion.
Art is an individual’s pursuit and gift of leaving something behind, artist are not immortal. Art worth leaving behind reflects the individual involved, we are all unique souls.
“The winners of the b.j. spoke Expo 17 competition share one important and enduring quality even in their diverse art works - that is the ability to convey an inner strength, a conviction and belief in their art. It is brilliantly felt in . . . highly evocative story paintings of Michael Fornadley . . .
The ability to make the viewer feel and share in that strength which the artist portrays, is a gift which each of these men and women possess.”
Jane Adlin
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY,1998
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