Mike Stack | Color Forms

Studio light | space presents a solo exhibition with painter Mike Stack.

Stack’s paintings and ink drawings present color and form as physical, spatial experiences. The paintings, bright and saturated, oscillate between positive and negative relationships designed to shift with every glance. Stack treats the visual as an embodiment of weight and pressure, creating places that are also objects, projecting mystery, playfulness, and purpose.

ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Mike Stack is a painter whose work explores color as a physical entity, where visual elements of weight, presence, and rhythm combine as palpable experiences. After spending many years painting from life, Stack increasingly focused on color variation itself, eventually distilling his practice to examine color’s spatial and gravitational qualities.

He holds an MFA in painting from Purchase College, SUNY, a BFA from the University of Pennsylvania, and a four-year certificate from Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Stack has exhibited in Arizona, Philadelphia, and New York, and has been a professor of art at Pima Community College in Tucson since 2002, where he has lived for seventeen years, drawn by the distinctive desert light.