Artstamp.dk is excited to present a set of six new stamps by Los Angeles artist Michael Coughlan.
These new stamps include images taken from Coughlan’s suite of charcoal drawings Laconic Distillations - Psychic Landscape Series.
In these works Coughlan continues his exploration of material and form, combining art historical and cultural tropes as filtered through his own idiosyncratic sensibility. The resulting images have a psychological tension, immediacy, and sense of humor that can be seen as an attempt to describe and deconstruct a contemporary human condition.
More than simply hybrids or blends of modernism, surrealism or conceptual art, Coughlan’s work moves beyond tribute iconography by tapping his existing surroundings in Los Angeles and own mortality. Lost desert landscapes unfold with new meaning when the literal translation of content or glorified remembrance of a specific art style is emptied out, jiggled up and poured back in.
Michael Coughlan’s solo exhibitions have been seen in Europe, Los Angeles and New York. He earned an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts in 1991 and a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design for Painting in 1988. He is the recipient of a Pollack Krasner Foundation grant (1996) and was a resident artist at the Atlantic Center for the Arts in New Smyrna Beach, Florida 2011.
Michael Coughlan has exhibited several times at Stalke Gallery over the years.
Website: www.michaelcoughlan.com