Featured Artist: Michael Hart

Submitted by todd on Sat, 09/04/2010 - 10:45pm

Elastic City: M♥, i'm not sure if this finds you in new york or barcelona. anyway: you live impulsively with a poetry that's both passionate, and in pre$ent-day new york, perhaps masochistic. even when i see doubt in your photos, it's couched in a celebration of the body. so, there's an honesty and also an optimism. do you agree with any of this, and where are you now?

Michael Hart:

NEW YORK

BARCELONA

IMPULSIVELY

PASSIONATE

PRE$ENT-DAY

A work of art is a gift, not a commodity....

Every modern artist who has chosen to labor with a gift must sooner or later wonder how he or she is to survive in a society dominated by market exchange. And if the fruits of a gift are gifts themselves, how is the artist to nourish himself, spiritually as well as materially, in an age whose values are market values and whose commerce consists almost exclusively in the purchase and sale of commodities?

- Lewis Hyde, The Gift

MASOCHISTIC

DOUBT

COUCHED

CELEBRATION OF THE BODY

HONEST

OPTIMISM

AGREE

WHERE ARE YOU NOW?

Thanks for asking. I'm in Shelter Island, New York with Logan Kruger, Roarke Menzies, Davon Rainey & Adam Weinert.

NEW YORK

Almost Perfect | New York, NY | 2010

BARCELONA

Siéntete | Barcelona, Spain | 2009

IMPULSIVELY

Bow-Wow! For SM | Spencertown, NY | 2009

with Jeff and Rufus

PASSIONATE

Self-Portrait #92,039,001 (Made In Maria's Bed) | Barcelona, Spain | 2010

with Michael Hart

MASOCHISTIC

SAD_ | Paris, France | 2010

with The Marquis

DOUBT

Ground Zero | New York, NY | 2009

The Reichstag | Berlin, Germany | 2009

COUCHED

Megan LeCrone With Ladder #1 | New York, NY | 2008

with Megan LeCrone

CELEBRATION OF THE BODY

The Field | Brooklyn, NY | 2006

with Troy Ogilvie, Shamel Pitts, Douglas Letheren and Annie Shreffler

HONEST

Self-Portrait #92,039,015 (Made In Maria's Bed) | Barcelona, Spain | 2010

with Michael Hart

OPTIMISM

Ryan Kelly Is Married To The Universe #1 | New Haven, CT | 2009

with Ryan Kelly

Ryan Kelly Is Married To The Universe #2 | New Haven, CT | 2009

with Ryan Kelly

AGREE

More Than Half | Chicago, IL | 2003

with Topel

WHERE ARE YOU NOW?

The Blue Lagoon in My Mind's Eye: On A Clear Day You Can See Russia From Here | Shelter Island, NY | 2010

Fish Out Of Water | Brooklyn, NY | 2006

with Logan Frances Kruger

I'm Not A Canary, I'm More Of A Coal Miner | Brooklyn, NY | 2009

with Roarke Menzies

This Was Never Green | Brooklyn, NY | 2010

with Davon Rainey

Difficult To Pronou... | Cap De Creus, Catalunya, Spain | 2009

with Adam Weinert