New
Paintings by Mike Glier
The Joy I Felt
New Paintings By
Mike Glier
An exhibition at The Barn @ Downing LLC April 17 to May 30, 2025 All works in this catalogue are © 2025, Mike Glier, courtesy of Downing Yudain LLC
The Joy I Felt explores how Mike Glier infuses observational painting with abstraction to convey a multi-sensory experience of nature. He uses an abstract visual language, derived from plein-air observation, to describe an intimate, reciprocal relationship between him and his subject, the living world. Mike engages the full range of the senses, improvising with color, motif, and repetition to evoke abstract representations of sound, smell, and touch to describe the dynamic, multi-sensory experience of perception. It is here, in the act of translating the sensory experience that nature provides, that he models a kind of reciprocity between himself and the subject that reflects a vision of the natural world as partner rather than resource for exploitation.
The Joy I Felt includes a selection of paintings that were featured in his recent exhibition, The Grammar of Animacy: Charles E. Burchfield and Mike Glier. Organized by the Burchfield Penney Art Center in Buffalo NY, the exhibition featured fifty-three paintings and drawing by both artists, arranged in topical groups. The Joy I Felt will also introduce cut-paper paintings, a new form for the artist. Similar to the Field Notes series that was previously exhibited at Downing Yudain, the cut-paper paintings are derived from the direct observation of nature, but also explore the unique ability of cut paper (most notably engaged by Matisse!) to combine line, form and color into a single operation, resulting in crisp and colorful compositions that are appealingly hand-crafted.
When the Last Monarch Leaves New York This Painting Will Shake and Moan, 2023
Acrylic on panel: 36 x 48 inches
Fawn Exhaling, 2022
Acrylic on canvas: 48 x 82 inches
Storms Splitting Light, 2024
Acrylic and charcoal on linen: 48 x 84 inches
Bird Songs and the Fragrance of the Garden in June, 2024
Acrylic and pencil on cut paper mounted on panel: 30 x 20 inches
The Territorial Call of the Red Wing Black Bird Coming out of the Lilac Bush, 2024 Acrylic and pencil on cut paper mounted on panel: 30 x 20 inches
The Fragrance of Lilacs Came through My Window, 2024
Acrylic and pencil on paper mounted on panel: 30 x 20 inches
Very Tiny Things Own the Planet, 2024 Acrylic on paper mounted on panel: 9 x 12 inches
The Joy I Felt Walking Along the Rio en Medio Before Its Canyon Burned and Flooded, 2024
Acrylic on cut paper mounted on board: 36 x 48 inches
April Arriving, 2024
Acrylic on cut paper mounted on board: 20 x 30 inches
An Unfamiliar Sound, 2024
Acrylic on cut paper mounted on board: 30 x 20 inches
Two clouds passing through one another: HAPPY, 2024
Acrylic on cut paper mounted on board: 30 x 20 inches
Startled by me, the rabbit darted under a bush where the barn cat was hiding, Oh Bunny!, 2024
Acrylic on cut paper mounted on board: 30 x 20 inches
Sunshower, 2024
Acrylic on cut paper mounted on board: 36 x 48 inches
September Cascade v.2, 2024
Acrylic on cut paper mounted on board: 30 x 20 inches
Sugar Maple, 2024
Acrylic on cut paper mounted on board: 36 x 48 inches
September Cascade, v.3, 2024
Acrylic on cut paper mounted on board: 24 x 20 inches
October Cascade, 2024
Acrylic on cut paper mounted on board: 60 x 40 inches
Dead Tree Singing, 2024
Acrylic on cut paper mounted on board: 40 x 26 inches
Agave, v.1, 2025
Acrylic and pencil on paper: 16 x 12 inches
Agave, v.2, 2025
Acrylic and pencil on paper: 16 x 12 inches
Agave, v.5, 2025
Acrylic and pencil on paper: 16 x 12 inches
Hawk and Song Birds, 2025
Acrylic and pencil on paper: 16 x 12 inches
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