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From UNLV Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art

  1. Aconitum by Sean Slattery, Image 1.

    Sean Slattery

    Aconitum, 2017

    Color lithograph on Rives BFK

    20 x 16 in

  2. Tool Bag by Thomas Ray Willis, Image 2.

    Thomas Ray Willis

    Tool Bag, 2013

    Canvas, wood, acrylic gesso, metal staples

    13 x 18 x 9.5 in

  3. Inside Brooklyn "Evening" by Kathleen Nathan, Image 1.

    Kathleen Nathan

    Inside Brooklyn "Evening", 2012

    Archival ink jet print on fine art paper

    12 x 18.5 in

  4. Panoptic Liger XV by Michael Ogilvie, Image 1.

    Michael Ogilvie

    Panoptic Liger XV, 2005

    Acrylic

    22 x 28 in

  5. Untitled Travel Collage, Athens, July 15, 2000 #3 by Stephen Antonakos, Image 2.

    Stephen Antonakos

    Untitled Travel Collage, Athens, July 15, 2000 #3, 2000

    Mixed media collage

    8.5 x 7.5 in

  6. Motion #57 by Laura Aguilar, Image 1.

    Laura Aguilar

    Motion #57, 1999

    Gelatin silver print

    11 x 14 in

  7. Happy Birthday, Herb #17 by Richard Tuttle, Image 1.

    Richard Tuttle

    Happy Birthday, Herb #17, 1997

    Graphite and colored pencil on paper mounted on grey paper

    13 x 6.25 in

  8. Ferns - Steep Revine by William George Allan, Image 1.

    William George Allan

    Ferns - Steep Revine, 1976

    Watercolor

    15.5 x 20.5 in

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About the artist

Michael Reafsnyder

American

b. 1969

Michael Reafsnyder was born in Orange, California. In 1996 he obtained his MFA from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. Critics have been calling his work “happy” and “joyful” for nearly twenty years. “Reafsnyder […] has already distinguished himself among a generation of L.A.-based artists who have begun to put happiness back into painting,” wrote David Pagel in 1998. The artist himself has said that he admires the Abstract Expressionists but not their macho “angst.” “ "I found myself liking that type of painting, knowing I'm not a macho man myself (and wondered) what I could do next," he told the Las Vegas Sun during a retrospective of his work at the Las Vegas Art Museum in 2005. Color, he said, was part of the solution. “[C]olor is so pleasurable.”

His work has been collected by museums and institutions across the U.S., including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles California; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, California; Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio; Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon; and the Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota.