Michael Hubbard: Soft Animal

January 12 - February 10,2024

From Box 13 Artspace:

"As a nonbinary artist, my most recent work has been an expression of my own fluid gender identity. The gooey flowing stickiness of paint is an ideal medium for playing with the ambiguities and contradictions present in the experience and perception of gender. Paintings are naturally enigmatic, with one foot in reality and another in imagination. In my paintings, I aim to express a feeling of freedom from biology and societal norms. These works present interior and exterior experience simultaneously. They seek spaces between masculine and feminine. In collage-like compositions, ambiguous human limbs merge and overlap with floral tangles. In other lushly rendered scenes, figures lean on and support one another in compositions of impossible balance and human connection.

In all of my work I aim to express a lived bodily experience and a celebration of life lived in between.

Born just outside of Detroit, Michael Hubbard currently lives and works in Midland Texas. Michael is an artist, educator, and fierce advocate for social justice. After receiving their MFA in visual art from Washington State University in 2011, they began teaching at Midland College. They currently teach painting, digital art, and graphic design. Working primarily in the medium of painting, their work aims to create an imaginary vision of non-binary identity, in all its ambiguity, joyful freedom, and contradiction. Their work has been featured nationally in galleries and publications, including Untitled Space in New York, a recent solo exhibition at the Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts in Lubbock TX, and

the “Boundaries and Boundaries” issue of Southwest Contemporary Magazine. They received a BFA in Painting from the Savannah College of Art and Design."

Reception: January 12, 2024 | 6-9 pm

BOX13 Art Space 6700 Harrisburg Blvd.
Houston, TX 77001
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