Michael B. Gallagher (born 1945) is an American painter whose work is associated with

Abstract Illusionism Abstract illusionism is a name coined by art historian and critic Barbara Rose in 1967. Louis K. Meisel independently coined the term to define an artistic movement that came into prominence in the United States during the mid-1970s. History Th ...

Life

Born and raised in

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, in 1964-68 he received a

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from the

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. In 1967 he was a Yale-Norfolk Summer School Grantee, and In 1970 he received a Master of Fine Arts from

Yale University Yale University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701, Yale is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Stat ...

Public collections

Museums:

The Metropolitan Museum of Art The Metropolitan Museum of Art, colloquially referred to as the Met, is an encyclopedic art museum in New York City. By floor area, it is the third-largest museum in the world and the largest art museum in the Americas. With 5.36 million v ...

, New York, NY
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY

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, Beverly Hills, CA

Butler Institute of American Art The Butler Institute of American Art (BIAA), located on Wick Avenue in Youngstown, Ohio, United States, was the first museum dedicated exclusively to American art. Established by local industrialist and philanthropist Joseph G. Butler, Jr., the ...

, Youngstown, Ohio

Albany Museum of Art The Albany Museum of Art is located in Albany, Georgia, United States. The museum is a non-profit organization governed by a 28-member elected board of directors. History The museum was founded in 1964 as the outgrowth of the Southwest Georgia Ar ...

, Georgia

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Museum of Art (Tucson, AZ), Tucson, AZ

Erie Art Museum Erie Art Museum is located in Erie, Pennsylvania. The Museum holds a collection of more than 8,000 objects, with strengths in American ceramics, Tibetan paintings, Indian bronzes, photography, and comic book art. Focusing on the museum collecti ...

, Erie, PA

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, Washington, D.C.

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, Philadelphia, PA

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, New York, NY

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, Smithfield, RI

Exhibitions

2008-9 “Art & Illusion,”Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA
2008 “Reflections from the Artist's Eye,”Frederick Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA
2008 “Inaugural exhibit at Roseville's Blue Line,” Blue Line Gallery, Roseville, CA
2006 “Art and Illusion: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation,” Bakersfield Museum of Art, Bakersfield, CA
2005 “Made in California,”Frederick Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA
2004 “Sketchbook 88,” Jean-Michel Basquiat, Georges Braque, Marc Chagall, Dale Chihuly, Richard Diebenkorn, Ronald Davis, Richard Estes, Sam Francis, Helen Frankenthaler, Michael Gallagher, Keith Haring, Michael Heizer, David Hockney, Robert Indiana, Jasper Johns, Mark Kostabi, Alex Katz, Roy Lichtenstein, Mel Ramos, Robert Motherwell, Helmut Newton, Kenneth Noland, Pablo Picasso, Gerhard Richter, Susan Rothenberg, Todd Rundgren, Thomas Ruff, Larry Rivers, James Rosenquist, Julian Schnabel, Frank Stella, Donald Sultan, David Salle, Cy Twombly, Rufino Tamayo, William Wegman, Andy Warhol,” Galerie Sho Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
1999 Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY
1995 Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY

Additional sources

Piepho, Rob , Palm Springs Art Magazine.com, Spring, 2017, "Forgotten Beauty", Art Patron talks to Michael Gallagher and Jack Reilly Thorpe, Carole, Westways: May June, 2008, "Art that Moves You".
Belnapp, Susan, OC Metro Business: April, 2008, "The Art of Mike Gallagher".
Dalkey, Victoria, The Sacramento Bee: February 29, 2008, “Big space, big show Inaugural exhibit at Roseville's Blue Line suggests a bright future”.
Wylder, Greer, Greer's OC: November 21, 2007, "Art that Moves You".
Montgomery, Tiffany, Shop-Eat-Surf.com: ,November 14, 2007, "Surfing as Art,a Talk with Michael Gallagher".
Dr. Leda Cempellin. "Abstract Illusionism: A Perspective," Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities Honolulu: January 12–15, 2007, South Dakota State University.

Edward Lucie-Smith John Edward McKenzie Lucie-Smith (born 27 February 1933), known as Edward Lucie-Smith, is a Jamaican-born English writer, poet, art critic, curator and broadcaster. He has been highly prolific in these fields, writing or editing over a hundred ...

.“American Art Now”: 1986, William Morrow and Company, Inc.

Peter Frank (art critic) Peter Solomon Frank (born 1950, New York) is an American art critic, curator, and poet who lives and works in Los Angeles. Frank is known for curating shows at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in the 1970s and 1980s. He has worked curatorially fo ...

. "Abstract inflected by Illusion: a Recent History, in Breaking the Plane: Stuart M. Speiser Collection" (New York: Louis K. Meisel Gallery), 1984.
Jane K. Bledsoe. "Centric 9 – Trompe L’Oeil Abstraction', The University Art Museum,California State University, Long Beach, October 11-30th,1983.
Atkins, Robert. Architectural Digest: 1983, April, “Art to Intrigue the Eye”.

External links

* https://www.mgallagher.art/ * http://www.mgallagher.com/ {{DEFAULTSORT:Gallagher, Michael B. 1945 births Living people 20th-century American painters American male painters 21st-century American painters 21st-century American male artists 20th-century American male artists