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Artist Enhanced
Limited-Edition Giclée Prints |
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A "Giclée
print" is the finest method available in printmaking technology.
A Michael Zelcer limited-edition Giclée print is created
by generating a high resolution digital scan from the original artwork
and printing with archival quality inks onto either archival paper
or canvas. The process provides superior color accuracy than other
means of reproduction. The individual print is then enhanced by
the artist with oil, acrylic, copper, silver and/or gold leaf giving
the final print the appearance of the original artwork. The canvas
Giclée print comes stretched, backed for shipping, and ready
to frame. Each print is signed and dated by the artist and includes
a certificate of authenticity. When the edition is filled no more
prints will be produced. As for quality, the Giclée print
now surpasses many traditional silver-halide and gelatin printing
processess and is commonly found in museums and art galleries around
the world.
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Michael Zelcer defines
his work as "Contemporary Primitivism." He uses "Eglomise," the art of painting on the reverse side of glass, in a nontraditional
way.
The LA Times calls Zelcer's work... "bold, elemental simplicity in stylized
imagery. That imagery is set against atmospheric backdrops
that appear abstract and cosmic, like one artist's vision of star-lit
primal debris. He inspires viewers to explore the primal visions
of symbolic thought through the pictographic imagery of his work.
Michael employs a fanciful use of shape and color to create abstract,
cubist, and biomorphic images that echo the works of 20th century
masters such as Picasso, Klee and Miro. He also has created a suite
of modernized cave paintings. Michael makes luminous pieces that
shimmer with energy."
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Michael was born in Los Angeles and currently resides
in Ventura, California. In his travels, he has lived and worked in
Israel and toured extensively through Europe, the Middle East, and
Russia, always seeking out art and beauty presented in diverse cultural
expression and forms.
Anthropology and archeology have always
intrigued and fascinated him. Michael has worked on archeological
dig sites in the Negev Desert and walked amid ancient pictographic
and ideographic imagery in the Sinai Desert previously not accessible
to the public. His studies of these ancient prehistoric forms of communication
and art have led him to search the world for those unnamed and forgotten
artists for inspiration.
Michaels artistic abilities have taken
him on a creative journey in many different disciplines of expression.
He has worked in ceramics, oil, pastel, pencil, ink, and stone sculpture.
His artistic talents and architectural and building knowledge led
him to become a General Building Contractor and Architectural Designer
of custom homes in Malibu, Santa Barbara, and Montecito Ca. In the
80's and 90's he built custom wood furnishings and restored classic
older homes located in Hollywood Hills, and Beverly Hills.
Returning to his passion, Michael resumed
his career in fine art in the late 1990's. "My paintings on glass
represent the charm of simplification, the power of abstraction, and
the importance of graphic signs, symbolic content and aesthetic logic.
In seeing my art you pay homage to the healing symbolism that springs
from what I believe to be this collective consciousness - the part
that truly makes us human." |
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Eglomise |
The art of painting on
the reverse side of glass. |
*Private commissions,
corporate, institutional, and municipal art installation inquiries
are welcome.
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Prints from
the following original artwork are available:
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| Angel
Sharks |
G4 #161 |
Canvas |
| Balanced
Heart |
G2 #180 |
Paper |
| Bison
Hunt |
G1 #118 |
Paper |
| Deer
Swimming |
G4 #123 |
Paper |
| Deviner
#1 |
G1 #164a |
Paper |
| Galloping
Horse #2 |
G1 #128 |
Canvas |
| Hammerheads |
G4 #160 |
Canvas |
| Life |
G3 #188 |
Canvas |
| Runners |
G1 #138 |
Paper |
| Romantic |
G2 #183 |
Canvas |
| Spirit
Angels |
G4 #156 |
Paper |
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Prices available upon request.
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Exhibitions Juried & Non-juried
- 2002-04
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The Upstairs Gallery,
Ventura, CA
Mischief's, Montecito, CA
Primavera Gallery, Ojai. CA
Natalie's Fine Threads, Ventura CA
Anacapa Brewery,Ventura, CA
Malibu Art Fair, Malibu, CA 2001-02
International Art Fair, Palm Springs, CA 2002
Stone Works Studios, Ventura, CA 1999
Brostroms, Montecito, CA
Ojai Art Show, Ojai, CA
Art Expo, San Francisco, CA
Beverly Hills Affair in the Gardens, CA
Ventura Beach Clarion Hotel, Ventura, CA
Ross Watkins Gallery, Palm Desert, CA
2000-2002
Johnithans at Perano's, Ventura, CA
Bistango / Studio Gallery, Irvine CA
Around The Corner Gallery Ojai, CA
California Street Gallery,Ventura, CA
Hilton Hotel Torry Pines, La Jolla. CA.
2003
Ventura Art Walks, Ventura, CA,
2001, 2002, 2003
Art in The Park, Ojai, CA, 2001. 2002. 2003
Artist Union Gallery Ventura CA. 2002-
City of Ventura Artist Progressive Studio Tour 2004
Mandaley Imports, Ventura, CA
California Street Gallery, Ventura CA
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Around The Corner Gallery
in Ojai CA. 2001-
Capriccio's, Ventura CA.
Studio Gallery, Irvine CA.
Artist Union Gallery, Ventura |
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