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Win A Drawing Contest
To celebrate the new article that is just now being released in the Arabella Magazine we have decided to make more people aware of Michael’s Facebook page and his “Daily Drawing” which he tries to post everyday. The more things you do with this contest – the more entries you will have. You can even go viral and share a link that will give you extra entries. There will also be drawings to choose from if you are the lucky winner. The drawings will be loaded on this page along with the details of each. The contest starts with 3 winners – however we will increase the number of drawings and winners for every 500 entries over 1500 up to 10 lucky winners. Make sure that you enter this Drawing Contest.
I have uploaded 20 drawing to this page. If you see something you like (there is only one available of each) and can’t bear to let someone else have it then by all means go ahead and purchase it. (each one has it’s own paypal button) If you are a lucky winner – then you will have your funds returned to you at the end of the contest or you can choose another to add to your collection. All of the funds that are raised through this promotion will used directly for molding and bronzing Michael’s ceramic sculptures.
Mobile Users can use the widget in the side bar to enter the Drawing Contest.
All drawings are 8 x 11 inches or 11 x 8 inches and from Michael’s daily Facebook posts of 20015. They are cataloged and entered into his inventory. Each drawing is sold with a certificate of authenticity and placed in a cellophane pouch for protection. These are unframed and un-matted. Drawings are shipped Canada Post expedited parcel with tracking and insurance for a flat rate of 15.00. All Drawings are 425.00 CAD and include taxes. You can purchase any of these drawings by clicking HERE. If they have sold they will be removed from this list and another will be added. You can enter the contest below the media gallery.
Michael Hermesh Mixed Media Drawings:
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- Sometimes a skyscraper is just a skyscraper
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- High Drama in the Aether
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- Waiting for The Birds
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The Mirror
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- Namaste
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- Charlie Hebdo
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- The Other Absinthe Drinker
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- Such a Schande
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- Tree Hunters in the Wibble Verse
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- The Keener
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- Mors
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- Distant Storm
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- The Castle
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- The Absolute Heroism of Certainty
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- And We Ventured Forth
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- California Dreaming
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- Madmen
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- You Are There
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- Modern Times
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- The Welcoming Skies
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- Common Gods of the Okanagan
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- Security Camera
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- Get Behind The Bird
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- Beautiful Bird
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- Carol and the TV
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- Two Rooms One House
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- All Worlds Are Smaller Than Their Gods
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- The King
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- The Communique
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- I Read The News Today..Oh Boy
Enter the Drawing Contest Draw below:
American Crawl – Flight Series
Flight Series:
Many of Michael’s works explore the concept flight. It is a recurring theme in many of his sculptures, drawings and paintings. This first gallery includes a newly released painting called American Crawl. It is an 8 x 10 inch acrylic on panel painting that depicts a man swimming in the aether.
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- American Crawl
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- American Crawl Conceptual Drawing
This second gallery contains a few more conceptual drawings with the recurring theme of flight. These have all been done in the last year!
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- A Hunger in the Aether
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- It Felt Like A Dream
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- The Commute
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- Flight
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- The Unlikely Flight
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- Fly By Night
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- The Birth
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- The Tight Rope
This final gallery contains a few paintings, drawings and sculptures that explore this same concept of flight.
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- I Dreamt I Could Fly Again
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- Again I Dreamt I Could Fly Again
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- Mount Rundle Tourist
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- Flight School for Existentialists
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The Inner Life Of Birds
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- I Dream’t I Could Fly Again (Angel)
Flight Series: Three thoughts about flying:
The most terrifying feat a person can commit is an act of pure creativity. It should never be confused with acts committed upon us that are beyond our control such as; tortured homelessness, starvation and rampant climate destabilization. While creativity is not beyond our control it definitely has no certainty of outcome… such as death.
Flight is a perfect metaphor for my art as a whole. The boundless freedom of the soul is given the opportunity of meaning by the weight of flesh.
My first introduction to flight as a child was not running outside to the sound of an airplane and watching in amazement – though I am of an age and a geographical region where that certainly could be true. My first awakening to flight was in lucid dreams, it was a reality more real than the agreed upon. I flew – I had rules which governed my freedom and whether mine or someone else’s they did not lessen the joy.
In reflection, I believe reality is bounded by the contracts we make, and just as our prisons are defined by our bars so are our freedoms.
Michael Hermesh
The Persistence of Nature – Michael Hermesh
This is a new painting by Michael Hermesh titled “The Persistence of Nature”. We have included quite a few detail shots with this work because it has a lot of detail within it. There are many narratives happening all at once that combine to make the whole of what Michael Hermesh is trying to say with this work. It is an acrylic mixed media painting that uses gesso and graphite for some of the details. There are many layers of glaze on this work. It measures 37.75 inches by 15.75 inches and is framed to in a natural wood finish frame to 39 inches by 17 inches. SOLD
Available at the Petley Jones Gallery
1554 West 6th Avenue, Vancouver BC V6J 1R2 phone: 604.732.5353 toll free: 1.888.732.5353-
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In some remote corner of the universe, poured out and glittering in innumerable solar systems,
there once was a star on which clever animals invented knowledge. That was the highest and most mendacious minute of “world history”—yet only a minute. After nature had drawn a few breaths the star grew cold, and the clever animals had to die.One might invent such a fable and still not have illustrated sufficiently how wretched, how shadowy and flighty, how aimless and arbitrary, the human intellect appears in nature. There have been eternities when it did not exist; and when it is done for again, nothing will have happened.
Frederich Nietzsche
Happiness is dependent on meaning. Neither meaning or happiness are dependent on circumstance.
As the world changes – what keeps us together is not the persistent remnants of circumstance but the transcendency of meaning.Right now the most powerful things we can do is to fight to protect the environment and to protect the commons. Our greatest enemy is nihilism.
(The significance contained in my art comes about in a largely spontaneous way. I am a poor illustrator of bumper sticker slogans. I would consider that a post modern trait. I am a fan of the mad visionary school.)
Michael Hermesh
The Weight of Light – Michael Hermesh
The Weight of Light by Michael Hermesh;
“The Weight of Light” by Michael Hermesh is 27 inches tall by, 7 inches wide and 7 inches deep. It depicts a child standing on a drum and carrying a large fish. This work is currently on display at the Ruby Blues Winery, 917 Naramata Road in Penticton, British Columbia, Canada. Make sure you stop in and see Prudence and the gang and do some tasting of their wonderful wines!
One of the things that an artist is … Is a creator of the peoples narrative.
Not that it’s propaganda for any particular narrative but it’s a statement that there is a more profound narrative than corporate narrative. Narrative is the responsibility of the individual. This may be practice for the time when the only crimes possible are memory and story. Smiley faces for everyone!
Michael Hermesh
New Work – The Weight of Light by Michael Hermesh
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- Weight of Light
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- Weight of Light
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- Weight of Light
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- Weight of Light
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- Weight of Light
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- Weight of Light
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- Weight of Light
Sadly we announce the closing of the group show: Terroir: Physically Speaking at the Penticton Art Gallery. The show was very well received with many people enjoying visiting the gallery to check out the work of the six artist involved. The Exhibition tour and the Meet the artist talks were also very well attended. If you missed the show the Shaw TV video interview with Michael Hermesh and Wanda Lock is still available for you to have a look at.
The second interview is has an interview with two of the other Terroir; Physically Speaking artists
Johann Wessels and Stephan Bircher
The Inner Life of Birds – Michael Hermesh
This brand new work by Michael Hermesh premiered at the Penticton Art Gallery’s Terroir: Physically Speaking show March 22nd through to May 12, 2013. This along with several of his other sculptures, paintings and drawings were extremely well received. You can view his full contribution to the show on the post Terroir: Physically Speaking.
The Inner Life of Birds is a ceramic work that is 37.5 inches tall by almost 7 inches wide by 8.5 inches deep. The feathers are also ceramic. This is one of Michael Hermesh’s larger ceramic works and it has a solid presence in any circumstance. It presents well on it’s own or next to other works. This work will be available at the Petley Jones Gallery for the South Granville Art Walk on June 22, 2013. This is a one day affair where 15 different participating Art Galleries will be having special events.
Petley Jones Gallery
1554 W 6th Ave Vancouver, BC V6J 1R2 (604) 732-5353For more information on the South Granville Art Walk click here
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The Inner Life Of Birds
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The Inner Life Of Birds
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The Inner Life Of Birds
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The Inner Life Of Birds
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“The Inner Life of Birds” has an earthbound body.
The tragedy is not that this work is earthbound and cannot fly. The tragedy would be if flight no longer had meaning. We become our desires though we don’t all get to become super hero’s like “The Inner Life of Birds”. However we do become conscious of our own tragediesLike Sisyphus we have a tale to tell of endeavor which becomes transcendent.
Michael Hermesh
Michael Hermesh ~ Terroir: Physically Speaking – Opens March 22, 2013
Terroir: Physically Speaking
March 22 to May 12, 2013 at the
Penticton Art Gallery
199 Marina Way, Penticton, BC V2A 1H3 Phone: 250.493.2928This is a group show that includes Stephan Bircher, Rose Braun, Michael Hermesh, Wanda Lock, Shauna Oddleifson, and Johann Wessels
This show will featured some New Sculpture, Paintings and Drawings by Michael Hermesh
Artist’s Statement
“Physically Speaking” is what figurative art is all about. A huge part of what we know about people is derived from their physical demeanor. Anatomy is psychology, psychology is spirit. My underlying exploration in art is creativity. Without creativity I do not believe the word spirit has any meaning at all. Creativity is a word who’s definition I am hung up on. What creativity is not; is the ability to combine disconnected ideas yielding something new, or random flamboyance, or loud incompetence, or madness. Creation is an act of magic. The production of something that did not exist before – much like a magician pulling a rabbit out of a hat.
The idea of creativity is a revolt against a mechanistic universe. Something happens in an act of creation that is not cause and effect. That’s the whole point. To “Create” according to Marion Webster – is to bring into existence. As the macro – so the micro, who created the creator? Without creativity, concepts that would be rendered meaningless are not hard to find. for example; personal responsibility, philosophical meaning, or the idea that art as anything other than a bumper sticker for a meme Creativity is a beauty that shines through everything. It is the “Higgs Boson” of the spirit. Creative spirit, and the body are as beautiful as they are mystical.
Michael Hermesh
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Hidden Portrait I
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Forever (The Problem with Forever is that it Ain’t right now)
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Gratuitous Bailee
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The Hatbox Man
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Flight for Existentialists
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she was an animist
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Pamphleteers Holiday
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- Life Without the Ferryman
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- Der Träumer II
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Pocketa Pocketa Pocketa
(Come Sun Dance with Me)
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- The Inner Life Of Birds
Exhibition Tour ~ 1 PM Saturday March 23
Michael Hermesh Artist Talk ~ Wednesday March 27th, 2012 ~ 2 PM
Show runs through till May 12, 2012
Artist Talk (Meet the Artist): Wednesday, March 27th @ 2pm
Forever – Michael Hermesh
Forever (The Problem with Forever is that it Ain’t Right Now)
This is the fourth of the six brand new works by Michael Hermesh that will be going into the Penticton Art Gallery for the group show called Terroir: Physically Speaking. It is ceramic sculpture that is about 37.5 inches tall by 6.75 inches wide and 8.5 inches deep and is titled “Forever (The Problem with Forever is that it Ain’t Right Now)”. The human figure of this is work originally appeared on HGTV’s The Stagers as the sculpture “Life in a Time of Joy”. The addition of the wolf and the new base has made this work an entirely new sculpture.
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- Forever (The Problem with Forever is that it Ain’t right now)
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- Forever (The Problem with Forever is that it Ain’t right now)
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- Forever (The Problem with Forever is that it Ain’t right now)
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- Forever (The Problem with Forever is that it Ain’t right now)
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- Forever (The Problem with Forever is that it Ain’t right now)
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- Forever (The Problem with Forever is that it Ain’t right now)
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- Forever (The Problem with Forever is that it Ain’t right now)
Terroir: Physically Speaking
Opening March 22, 2013 7pm at the
Penticton Art Gallery
199 Marina Way, Penticton, BC V2A 1H3 Phone: 250.493.2928This is a group show that includes Stephan Bircher, Rose Braun, Michael Hermesh, Wanda Lock, Shauna Oddleifson, and Johann Wessels
This show will feature some New Sculpture, Paintings and Drawings by Michael Hermesh
Gratuitous Bailee – Michael Hermesh
Gratuitous Bailee by Michael Hermesh
(With A Nod to Gerhard Richter)
***UPDATE: This work was SOLD by the White Rock Gallery***
1247 Johnston Road White Rock, BC, CANADA V4B 3Y9
Telephone: 604.538.4452 Toll-Free: 1.877.974.4278
This is another one of the sculptures that premiered at the Penticton Art Gallery for the group show called Terroir: Physically Speaking. It is a plaster sculpture that is about 67.5 inches tall by 12 inches wide and 12 inches deep on it’s plinth. There are two of these and it is titled “Gratuitous Bailee” The heads are taken from the mold for the bronze cast of Frank the Baggage Handler. The space between the sculptures is as important as the sculptures themselves.
We’ve had a little fun with these photos.
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- Gratuitous Bailee
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Definition: A bailment in which the bailee accepts personal property without expecting compensation. For example, a gratuitous bailment is created when a bailee borrows a bailor’s property. In gratuitous bailments, the bailee is liable to the bailor for the loss of or damage to the property only if it was caused by the bailee’s gross negligence.
Terroir: Physically Speaking
Michael Hermesh
March 22 to May 12, 2013 at the
Penticton Art Gallery
199 Marina Way, Penticton, BC V2A 1H3 Phone: 250.493.2928This is a group show that includes Stephan Bircher, Rose Braun, Michael Hermesh, Wanda Lock, Shauna Oddleifson, and Johann Wessels
This show will feature some New Sculpture, Paintings and Drawings by Michael Hermesh
Pamphleteer’s Holiday – Michael Hermesh
Pamphleteer’s Holiday by Michael Hermesh
***UPDATE: This work is currently available at the Avenue Gallery***
2184 Oak bay Avenue, Victoria, BC, CANADA V8R 1G3
Telephone: 250.598.2184 Toll-Free: 1.844.598.2184
This is the Third of the five brand new works that premiered at the Penticton Art Gallery for the group show called Terroir: Physically Speaking. It is ceramic sculpture that is about 9.5 inches tall by 10.5 inches wide and 6.5 inches deep and is titled “Pamphleteer’s Holiday”
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- Pamphleteer’s Holiday
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Identity plays a large part in my art in so much as I consider all art to be narrative in terms of subject,
the viewer, or the message. A narrative without identity is at best a cold irrelevant equation. That being said a happy face is a generic idea of happiness without the messy encumbrances of humanity. Joy as a product is as rampant as it is vapid. Self abnegation is a by product of the propaganda of joy. Service to an economic cause is a mask that hides an emptiness of spirit.Michael Hermesh
Terroir: Physically Speaking
March 22 to May 12, 2013 at the
Penticton Art Gallery
199 Marina Way, Penticton, BC V2A 1H3 Phone: 250.493.2928This is a group show that includes Stephan Bircher, Rose Braun, Michael Hermesh, Wanda Lock, Shauna Oddleifson, and Johann Wessels
This show will feature some New Sculpture, Paintings and Drawings by Michael Hermesh
she was an animist – Michael Hermesh
she was an animist
***UPDATE: This work is currently available at the White Rock Gallery***
1247 Johnston Road White Rock, BC, CANADA V4B 3Y9
Telephone: 604.538.4452 Toll-Free: 1.877.974.4278
This is the second of the five brand new works that premiered at the Penticton Art Gallery for the group show called Terroir: Physically Speaking. It is ceramic sculpture that is about 23 inches tall by 13.75 inches wide and 5.25 inches deep and is titled “She was an Animist”.
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- she was an animist
I do not have a clue about how the universe is put together but I very much doubt it is put
together as a spiritual hierarchy. The idea of animism – where all things are treated with the respect due a spiritual entity does not seem like such a bad operating principal though. I love the idea that a rock exists because it wants to.Michael Hermesh
Terroir: Physically Speaking
March 22 to May 12, 2013 at the
Penticton Art Gallery
199 Marina Way, Penticton, BC V2A 1H3 Phone: 250.493.2928This is a group show that includes Stephan Bircher, Rose Braun, Michael Hermesh, Wanda Lock, Shauna Oddleifson, and Johann Wessels
This show will feature some New Sculpture, Paintings and Drawings by Michael Hermesh
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