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Artist Statement:
Contemporary Tachism: The
Black and White Paintings of
Misha Bittleston
by Alfred Jan
After World War II,
parallel expressionist,
subjectivist art movements
influenced by Existentialist
philosophy developed in
America and Europe. American
Abstract Expressionist painter
Franz Kline's exclusive use of
black and white mirrored the
European Tachists who dripped,
blotted, and stained black
pigment on to white surfaces.
Tachism was in large measure a
reaction against the
controlled intellectualism of
previous geometric
abstractionist schools of
painting.
Although Bittleston had
painted all his life, he came
to his current work after a
collection of written
aphorisms was stolen and never
recovered. He evolved from
intuitive textual writing to a
kind of automatic gestural
action painting, but on an
intimate scale, in
contradistinction to the huge
bombastic Abstract
Expressionist paintings on
canvas. His technique employs
inks from over the world with
unique properties of tone,
intensity, gloss, consistency,
solubility, and granularity.
Tools used to apply these inks
to paper include brushes,
towels, pen nibs, stencils,
mouth atomizers, palette
knives, razors, glue
applicators, his fingers, and
pressurized water. In addition
to traditional Tachist
techniques, Bittleston also
splashes, splatters, spits,
sprays, stipples, and scumbles
to yield preliminary results
based on randomness, chance,
and ...
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Artist Exhibitions:
Group Exhibitions:
2004 "ReFresh Print Biennial
I," Lawton Gallery, University
of Wisconsin–Green Bay
2004 "2004 Biennial
International Exhibition,"
Brad Cooper Gallery, Tampa,
Florida
2004 "The 8th Annual Sacred
Art Exhibition," BoxHeart
Gallery, Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania
2004 "DIGITALLY 2004
International Exhibition,"
ARTROM Gallery, Rome, Italy
2004 "Wall to Wall, National
Juried ...
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Artist Reviews:
Mysterious. Trying to
penetrate the veil that covers
dreams and visions; seeking
for meaning in the harmony of
color. His paintings often
evoke musical compositions all
wrapped in structural
harmonies of poetry. Rare
harmonies. They sometimes seem
randomly put together but they
are organized in a very
conscious way. They ...
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Commissions:
Coming Soon!
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Collections for Misha Bittleston:
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Allan Henderson, Redwood City, CA, USA
Astrid Heinonen, San Francisco, CA, USA
C.J. Tomaino, Los Gatos, CA, USA
Cindy Whithead, Palo Alto, CA, USA
Dan Skinner, E. Sussex, England
Deborah Hamilton, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Edith Smith, Palo Alto, CA, USA
Elizabeth Sevison, San Diego, CA, USA
Elliott & Susan Bloom, Palo Alto, CA, USA
Emmett Caldwell, Woodside, CA, USA
Jan Willem Pieterse, Netherlands
Jesse & Jennifer McCree, Los Altos, CA, USA
Karen & Andrew Hill, Portola Valley, CA, USA
Lala Harrison, San Francisco, CA, USA
Lisa Bryant, Citrus Heights, CA, USA
Marcie Rose, San Francisco, CA, USA
Marguerite Saegesser, Palo Alto, CA, USA
Martine & Reza Zadno, CA, USA
Maureen Christine & Marisa La Dou, Menlo Park, CA, USA
Megan Alley, San Diego, CA, USA
Monique Juard, San Francisco, CA, USA
Nancy L. Thompson & Steve E. Loeffler, San Jose, CA, USA
Peter Stember, Woodside, CA, USA
Rainbow & Kelli Rosenbloom, Aptos, CA, USA
Richard & Annie Bernstein, Honolulu, HI, USA
Ron Meiners, Boulder Creek, CA, USA
Summer Lee Kern, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Tamara & Paul Carignan, Palo Alto, CA, USA
Tatyana Belayvskaya & Yevel Belyavsky, Sunnyvale, CA, USA
Tom & Beth Lorey, Oakland, CA, USA
Vic Frailing, Chesapeake, VA
Wendy Bloom, Palo Alto, CA, USA
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