Michael Asbill
My
work is an exercise in finding deeper meaning in familiar things. Certain
objects, places and even memories will develop a hold on me. I keep them
around, draw them, photograph them, dismantle them, and tinker with their
context. Sometimes, through my experiments, the qualities of my subject
open up and reveal themselves. In other instances, I might simply give the
thing a new form, a new vantage point from which it can be scrutinized.
In essence, I am visually
interpreting the meaning of common things the same way one might interpret a
dream. And as a mixed-media artist, I use whatever media is called for by
the specific subject. By drawing out these inner meanings, investing them
with personal connotations, giving them metaphoric breadth, extending and
expanding them, I feel them I am in a sense making simple dreams for the
waking world.
Michael Asbill
484
Mettacahonts Road
Accord, NY 12404
Phone: (845) 626-5927
Email:
michaelasbill@yahoo.com
BORN
1967 Fredonia, KS
EDUCATION
1999 M.F.A. University of California, San Diego, La
Jolla, CA
1992 B.F.A. University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2007 CISTERN TRUMPETS, Collaborative Concept’s Farm
Project, Garrison, NY (site specific)
2007 10 x 10 x 10, Ellenville Storefront Invitational,
Ellenville, NY (site specific)
2007 REFLECTIONS OF KINGSTON, Kingston Sculptural
Biennial, Kingston, NY (site specific)
2007 PICTURING CLINTON: THEN AND NOW, Town of Clinton
Historical Society, Clinton Corners, NY (solo)
2007 INAUGURAL EXHIBITION, G.A.S. (Gallery and Studio),
Poughkeepsie, NY
2007 GROUP SHOW, Muddy Cup, Poughkeepsie, NY
2006 UNDER THE MID-HUDSON BRIDGE: REVISITING A LOST
POUGHKEEPSIE NEIGHBORHOOD, Town of Clinton Historical Society, Clinton
Corners, NY (solo)
2004 OFF THE MAP: THE SUBMERGED COMMUNITIES OF THE
U.S., Center for Land Use Interpretation, Culver City, CA
2004 RAIL TIES LENTICULARS, Gardiner Library, Gardiner,
NY (solo)
2004 LIGHT BOXES, The Bakery, New Paltz, NY (solo)
2003 OPEN CONTAINER 1, Open Container, Brooklyn, NY
1997 RECENT WORK: MARK BREST VAN KEMPEN AND MICHAEL
ASBILL, Crucible Steel Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1996 AROUND WENDOVER, Center for Land Use
Interpretation, Wendover Exhibit Hall, Wendover, UT
1993 SMALL WORKS, PAINTINGS, EVENTS, MACHINES AND TAPE,
Solano Community College Fine Arts Gallery, Suisun, CA
1993 RECENT WORK, The New Visual Arts Center Gallery,
University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA
1992 THREE PEOPLE, 830 Gallery, Tucson, AZ
1992 RECENT WORK, Shock Hall, Tucson, AZ (solo)
1992 MURAL WORKS, Dodajk, Tucson, AZ (solo)
1992 LARGE BOOK, Todd Walker Gallery, Tucson, AZ (solo)
1991 FRESH REMAINS, 830 Gallery, Tucson, AZ (solo)
1991 MISCALCULATING THE FLUIDS, Dodajk, Tucson, AZ
1991 ILLUMINATIONS, The Lubbock Fine Arts Center,
Lubbock, TX
1991 22½ MINUTES ON HELMUT PEAK ROAD,
ReAction Gallery, Tucson AZ
1987 TIME TOWER PANEL, Utah Arts Festival, Salt Lake
City, UT
1987 STATEWIDE ART EXHIBITION, Eccles Art Center, Ogden,
UT
1987 BLACK & WHITE, Eccles Art Center, Ogden, UT
PUBLIC ARTWORKS
2006 WINDOWS ON POUGHKEEPSIE, Poughkeepsie, NY. A
large-scale artwork in the Poughkeepsie train station commissioned by the
Dutchess County Arts Council.
2004 RAIL TIES, Gardiner, NY. A permanent public
sculpture along the Wallkill Valley Rail Trail commissioned by the Gardiner
Public Library.
ARTIST BOOKS
1996 NEAR HENRY’S FORK, 194 pages, hand-built,
self-published edition
1994 IN THE PERIPHERY OF ZION, 168 pages, hand-built,
self-published edition
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2006-PRES Board of Directors, Walkway Over the Hudson,
Poughkeepsie, NY
2005-2007 Education Curator, Woodstock Artists Association &
Museum, Woodstock, NY
1999-2001 Dinosaur Dig Research Assistant, Montana State University
Northern, Havre, MT
1998-2000 Education Curator, Palo Alto Junior Museum & Zoo, Palo
Alto, CA
1997-1998
Art Camps Coordinator, Community School of Music & Art, Mountain
View, CA
1992-1996
Teaching Assistant, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla,
CA
1989-1992
Studio Assistant for Kenneth Shorr, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
GRANTS AND AWARDS
2007 Decentralization (Project) Grant, Dutchess County
Arts Council for “Picturing Clinton: Now and Then,” sponsored by the Clinton
Historical Society
2005 Winner of the Poughkeepsie Train Station Public Art
Competition, Dutchess County Arts Council
2005 Finalist Stipend, Poughkeepsie Train Station Public
Art Competition, Dutchess County Arts Council
2004 Decentralization (Project) Grant, Dutchess County
Arts Council for “Rail Ties,” sponsored by the Gardiner Library.
2003 Special Opportunity Stipend, New York Foundation
for the Arts
PUBLICATIONS
5/31/07 Art Matters: Michael Asbill – Uncharted by
Judy Sigunick, Ellenville Journal
12/28/06 Forward In All Directions by Paul Smart, Ulster
Publishing’s Alm@nac
4/17/06 Way Stations by Paul Smart, Ulster Publishing’s
Alm@nac
4/15/06 Seize Opportunity to View Window Art at Train
Station by Anthony P. Musso, Poughkeepsie Journal
3/23/06 Windows on Poughkeepsie” by John Nelson, Pulse
Magazine
3/18/06 Art of Revitalization, Poughkeepsie Journal
2/26/06 Unframed & for the People by Kathleen
Wereszynski Murray, Poughkeepsie Journal
2006 New View for Riders by Kathleen
Wereszynski Murray, Art & Antiques
2005 On the Scene, Winter Edition of
Dutchess County Arts Council’s Art Scene
11/18/04 Art History by Mala Hoffman, New Paltz
Times
