Coalcite II by Michael Kessler

Coalcite II by Michael Kessler Original Acrylic on Panel - Mixed Media 55 x 76 $14,000 Michael Kessler was born in 1954 in Hanover, Pennsylvania. He received a B.F.A. degree from Kutztown University. He currently lives and works in New Mexico. He has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions from New York to Sweden, to Los Angeles. Personal histories, voyages, and discoveries are transported and communicated through process, mark-making, and visceral expression in the work of Michael Kessler. His paintings offer a transparent view of their journey as their paintings become. Select areas of intended color combined with palettes inspired by nature. Activated compositions pulsate with energy, yet are grounded with structure, line, and open space. Michael Kessler’s acrylic on panel paintings utilize numerous translucent and transparent layers to crystallize his abstract, gestural, and geometric configurations. With a meditative focus, he pours, scrapes, smooths, tapes, and sands the paint to