| Michael Hurson | ||
| Birth Date: 1941 |
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| Death Date: January 29, 2007 Artist Gallery |
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| Michael Hurson, born in 1941 in Youngstown, Ohio. Hurson combined a gift for drawing with a sharp intelligence cloaked in whimsy and often took inspiration from Burr Tillstrom, a longtime friend and creator of the influential puppet show “Kukla, Fran and Ollie” broadcast on television from 1947 until 1956.
Hurson negotiated his own path between Pop and Conceptual Art, couching familiar everyday objects in seemingly neutral, almost hermetic terms. He shared these instincts with artists like Robert Moskowitz and Jennifer Bartlett and his work was included with theirs in “New Image Painting” at the Whitney Museum in 1978. In the 90s he began translating famous masterpieces into this style, including Seurat’s “Sunday Afternoon on the Island of the Grande Jatte”, which he knew intimately from his days at the Art Institute of Chicago. |
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