Michael Beauchemin

Paintings

Paintings

About the artist

Born 1957 in Waterford, Connecticut. My father, who was a draftsman, poster artist, and print maker, was a creative influence for me when I was growing up. I now live and paint in Sarasota, Florida. My art is a process of recalculating perception. It is a visual depiction of what naturally occurs when mentally indexing real life events with dream memories. I call my style of artwork, Rotorealism: external reality rotating through internal reality. I implement acrylic under-painting with oil overlays of deeply saturated colors to underscore my recollection of life experiences as filtered through childhood impressions and memories – a period I view as inherently hopeful and central to my being. By incorporating a system of stylistic mapping similar in appearance to photographic multiple exposures, image fusion, soft focus, fragmentation and frame-cropping, I attempt to create a kinetic depiction of life and innocence remembered.

Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA

The Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale, FL

Edison College, Fort Myers, FL

Rufus Rose College Scholarship

Lee County Alliance of the Arts, Fort Myers, FL (1986 solo exhibition)

Tower Gallery, Fort Myers, FL (1986 group exhibition)

Wet Paint Gallery, Miami Beach, FL (1987 solo exhibition)
Galleria Giovanni, Fort Lauderdale, FL (1987 solo exhibition)

Bob Rauschenberg Gallery, Edison College, Fort Myers, FL (1987 group exhibition)

Clayton Galleries, Tampa, FL (1987-1989 solo and group exhibitions)

Holland & Knight Art Collection, Tampa, FL (1988 group exhibition including Robert Rauschenberg & James Rosenquist)

Tampa Museum of Fine Art, Tampa, FL (1988 group exhibition)

Hillsborough County Visual Artists Alliance, Tampa, FL (1988 group exhibition)

Society of the Four Arts Museum, Palm Beach, FL (1988, 1989, 1990 group exhibitions)

The Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, FL (1989 group exhibition)

The Bill Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, GA (1989-2003 solo & group exhibitions)

The Bill Lowe Gallery West, Santa Monica, CA (1990-2000 solo & group exhibitions)

The Michael Beauchemin Gallery, Tampa, FL (1995-1997 solo & group exhibitions)

The Tampa Bay Gallery Hop, Tampa, FL (1996 group exhibitions)

An American Renaissance Exhibition (1996 U.S. and Musue d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Spain traveling group exhibition)

The Atlanta U.S. Olympic Games Art Exhibition Hall (1996 group exhibition)

Sidney & Berne Davis Art Center, Fort Myers, FL (2008 group exhibition)

The Bill Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, GA (2009 Twenty Year Retrospective solo exhibition)

Naples Museum of Fine Art, Naples, FL (2011 group exhibition)

Watson & MacRae Gallery, Sanibel, FL (2012 group exhibition)

The Bill Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, GA (2012-2013 group exhibitions)

The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Decorators' Show HGTV Event, Buckhead, GA (2013 group exhibition)

Art Avenue Gallery, Sarasota, FL (2018 featured exhibition)