"New Visions, New Voices" - Michael Angell

Archway Gallery's current exhibition "New Visions, New Voices; Inspiring Connections Through Art" features works by newest member artists Rhonda Radford Adams, Michael Angell, Gözde Kaya, Kay Sarver, and Eric Stiles.  Here is some insight into artist Michael Angell:

Michael Angell firmly believes that his most encouraging force is “the Muse that permeates art itself, whether it be writing, sculpting or illustrating.  At an early age, creating art was a ‘proof of concept’, that I had tangible proof that I was evolving as something important in my relationship to the external world.”  He is also a poet and a storyteller, and is “inspired by nature, the stream of consciousness work space, mythology, and dream like existence,” to name just a few of his diverse influences.

​When asked to recall one of his favorite experiences, Michael recalls traveling.  "It was a four month trip to Egypt, Greece and Russia in the early '90’s.  I had been to Russia once before , though this trip was key for me to get a lot of preconception out of my head and further anchor into maturing past my Americanized psyche." 

He works at his art “at a desk where my computer is stationed as well, and always facing a window, preferably with a view.”  If his view is blocked, his ears “see things because the window is a membrane of implied visuals per bird sounds, wind, rain plinks and the quiet presence of transparency.”

​When asked how he knows when he is done with a piece?  “It’s an event, a sudden epiphany of done or it simply stops speaking. Or it’s filled up”.

Touch by Michael Angell