Tag: Mike Cloud

Ideas & Influences

Ideas and influences: Mike Cloud

Rather than parse the differences among us, Mike Cloud’s new paintings address the one experience we all have in common regardless of race, gender, ethnicity, wealth, or nationality: impending death. For his solo show at Thomas Erben, on view through November 2, Cloud has used stretcher bars, belts, fabrics, paint, […]

Solo Shows

Mike Cloud: Angst and hope

Contributed by Sharon Butler / Mike Cloud�s seductively playful and complex exhibition, “Quilt paintings,” on view at Thomas Erben through the March 31, features disassembled children�s clothes � not those that his kids have outgrown, but new outfits, some with price tags still attached. The seams are removed, and the […]