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One can clarify, define, categorize, and articulate creative thought; drag through volumes
of projection hypothesis and envelop oneself in analytical chatter "til blue in the face."
I'm more interested in the colour blue it will be.
In general I've been influenced by the dramatic, the flat, the huge and the very small, the
colourful and mono-oblique, but never singularly impressed. I find the connected continuity of
painting, drawing, photography, and the three dimensional arts as obvious as wings and flight.
Unlimited possibility is the nucleus of my art. The untamed free association and synthesis
unhampered by revered iconography. My work is abstract-symbolic chance, composite,
androgynous, juxtapostion, recordings of what I see within/without, imagined parts and
pieces of film from the universal odeum.
This is my journey. My imagination is my gift. I try not to take it too seriously, don't believe in
my own publicity, take notes on changes in the weather, keep an open mind and rest in peace.
Michael Copeland BA
Michael has been creating works of art for over 40 years, an art educator for twenty-seven years,
he earned his degree in Fine Art from Californa State University, studying with noted artists O.K. Harry and Joseph Moran.
Michael has exhibited his work in Southern California, in New Mexico at the University of
New Mexico, and in private galleries in Ruidoso, Tularosa and Alamogordo, New Mexico.
He is a member of New Mexico Arts, Art in Public Places.
Michael's work can be found in the public collections of the former Governor of New Mexico,
the Honorable Gary Johnson, the United States Air Force, and Gerald Champion Memorial Hospital, Alamogordo, NM.
His work can also be found in private collections in the U.S. and Europe, including the collections of Former
New Mexico State Representative "Toots" Green, Professor Thomas and Mrs. Sally Johnson, and Don and Norette Gilbert
of Riverside, California, Ms Jennifer Harvey of Boston, MA and Mr. Bret Barringer of Boston, MA.
Lt. Col (Ret.) James Danby, Doctors Timothy and Kelly Frost, Dr. Andrea Joseph, Shawn and Kelley Quarles and
Charlie and Susan J. Ryan, all of New Mexico. Doctors Sean Danby and Meg Clancey of Seattle, Washington
Ms. Suzanne de la Torre of Seattle, Washington and Ms Laurie J. Woliung, Plantation, Florida.
Also, Norman and Eve Barringer and Scott Barringer of San Francisco, CA.
In Europe, Michael's work hangs at the Locanda del Gallo, S. Christina, Italy, and in the private collection
of Leanne Ramsden, London, England.
Currently, Michael Copeland's work can be seen and purchased at Copeland's Frame Shop, Gallery and Studio, Alamogordo,
New Mexico, Metallo Gallery, Madrid, New Mexico and Off The Beaten Path, Cloudcroft, New Mexico
Michael works in two and three-dimensional mixed media, watercolour, acrylic, oil, prismacolor, and graphite
on rag paper, masonite and canvas. Michael's "abstracted" realism uses deep layers of color and line, struck by
his sense of humor and subtle play.