Michael Indorato

Michael Indorato is a prolific painter, with a zeal for harnessing his inner emotional states to create incredible, deeply personal works of art. As one views his paintings, we can immediately sense the energy vibrating off the canvas. Objects, places, plants and figures are broken into linear configurations that swirl into a colorful cyclone. Reality, it seems, is just a jumping off point for Indorato; pictorial realism is not his concern, but rather to exude the raw emotions and transmit them to his audience. This physicality is often magnetic. "Every painting is a wrestling match," Indorato explains. "Some flow with beauty and grace and others are an ugly reflection of a pessimistic point of view, uncertain of the past, present or future."

Using acrylic or oil paints, Indorato renders sprawling cityscapes, surrealist landscapes, or still-life studies with his characteristic, surrealist explosion of energy. When turning his attention toward the figure, however, his subjects become himself and each of us, whisking bodily features away in an entrancing psychological tumult.