Troy Michie | |
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Born | 1985 |
Nationality | American |
Education |
University of Texas at El Paso BFA, 2009 Yale School of Art MFA, 2011 |
Troy Montes-Michie (born 1985) is an American interdisciplinary painter and collage artist. [1]
Troy Michie was born in El Paso, TX. He received a BFA from the University of Texas at El Paso in 2009 and an MFA from the Yale School of Art in Painting/Printmaking in 2011. [2]
Michie participated in the Tuesday Night MFA Lecture Series at BU School of Visual Arts. [3]
On December 3, 2017, Michie held his first solo exhibition Fat Cat Came To Play through Company Gallery, which lasted until January 21, 2018. [4] In the solo exhibition, Michie explores the significance of zoot suits, which are “broad-shouldered suits that were popular with Italian, black, and Latino men in the United States in the 1940s”. [5] The installation was inspired by the Zoot Suit Riots, which took place in 1943 after white servicemen attacked a group of Mexican Americans wearing Zoot suits. [5] Unlike his earlier works, which dealt with sex, Fat Cat Came To Play focused on exploring “blackness, queerness, and sexuality within an assemblage” by expressing socio-economic traits on to the Zoot Suit. [6] In many of his installations, Michie cuts out the faces of photographs from this era to address that these histories of the minorities are still relevant today. [4] A notable piece of the exhibition was “Disruptive Patterns”, which aimed to remind people that police officers were among the attackers in the Zoot Suit Riots. [4] The exhibition stayed true to Michie's philosophy of representing the cultural expressions, specifically through fashion, of “historically marginalized American male figures”. [7]
Troy Michie | |
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Born | 1985 |
Nationality | American |
Education |
University of Texas at El Paso BFA, 2009 Yale School of Art MFA, 2011 |
Troy Montes-Michie (born 1985) is an American interdisciplinary painter and collage artist. [1]
Troy Michie was born in El Paso, TX. He received a BFA from the University of Texas at El Paso in 2009 and an MFA from the Yale School of Art in Painting/Printmaking in 2011. [2]
Michie participated in the Tuesday Night MFA Lecture Series at BU School of Visual Arts. [3]
On December 3, 2017, Michie held his first solo exhibition Fat Cat Came To Play through Company Gallery, which lasted until January 21, 2018. [4] In the solo exhibition, Michie explores the significance of zoot suits, which are “broad-shouldered suits that were popular with Italian, black, and Latino men in the United States in the 1940s”. [5] The installation was inspired by the Zoot Suit Riots, which took place in 1943 after white servicemen attacked a group of Mexican Americans wearing Zoot suits. [5] Unlike his earlier works, which dealt with sex, Fat Cat Came To Play focused on exploring “blackness, queerness, and sexuality within an assemblage” by expressing socio-economic traits on to the Zoot Suit. [6] In many of his installations, Michie cuts out the faces of photographs from this era to address that these histories of the minorities are still relevant today. [4] A notable piece of the exhibition was “Disruptive Patterns”, which aimed to remind people that police officers were among the attackers in the Zoot Suit Riots. [4] The exhibition stayed true to Michie's philosophy of representing the cultural expressions, specifically through fashion, of “historically marginalized American male figures”. [7]