Michael Wang, Silliman College

Michael’s work has specificity, humor, and challenges the viewer. He stages absurd performances, approaching cultural stereotypes, low-grade fears, expected manners, and situational comedy with a deft touch, and photographs them with an astute eye for composition that balances embodied slapstick with dramatic shadows or color. As a student, he reads everything and synthesizes and grows quickly. He is a hardworking, hungry young artist! He is working on pushing his painting practice further, trying to work from life more and painting figurative scenes that are dependent on their locations. He will also be making staged, fictive, large-format photographs.

Lisa Kereszi, Senior Critic and Director of Undergraduate Studies in Art and Molly Zuckerman-Hartung, Senior Critic Painting and Printmaking Department