Days to Night
Michael Filan

Days To Night is a solo presentation by the NYC-based artist Mike Filan. Over the years, Filan’s painting process has become brushless. The gestures, drips, and splashes that unite his work have become increasingly more intricate over time and address viewers in a language that is private, intense, and consistently self-referential. Within the context of abstraction, Filan is constantly inventing a new vocabulary that employs gesture, form, and notation. The intensity of the color is used as a mystical guide that leads him through the creation process. Spatial planes are created on the painting’s surface that offer resting points for viewers to pause before further embarking on a journey of exploration.

About the Artist 

Michael Filan is a NYC-based artist. His paintings have been featured in solo and group exhibitions in galleries and museums in the United States and in Europe, including the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum of Rutgers University; the Kunst Project in Berlin; the Koussevitzky Art Gallery of Berkshire Community College in Pittsfield Massachusetts; the JMS Gallery in Philadelphia; and the Nicholas F. Rizzo Gallery in Chatham, New Jersey. In New York City he has had exhibitions at the Ethan Cohen Kube, Five Myles Gallery, the Denise Bilbro Gallery, Artists Space; the Bronx Museum of the Arts; the Atrium Gallery of Laguardia Community College; the Landmark Gallery; the Lobby Gallery of the Durst Corporation; the Mary Anthony Gallery; the Shirley Fitterman Gallery of City College University of New York; the Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition (BWAC); and Papergirl-Brooklyn. His work is in corporate, public and private collections, including those of the Borough of Manhattan Community College, Pfizer Corporation, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Colgate Palmolive Corporation, and Sally Bingham.

For more information on Michael Filan, visit his website and follow him on Instagram.