all works / images © MICAH SCHIPPA

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MICAH SCHIPPA‘s work, although difficult to categorize, pushes the boundaries of our interpretations and expectations of images and the technologies used to produce them. From the gestural to the formal, he investigates our changing perceptions of images.

Technology is shifting our traditional perceptual modes. The ideas of touch, presence, place and time are slowly becoming unrecognizable, if not forever altered.  My work attempts to engage the space between biological and technological systems, the machine and the body, physics and metaphysics.  My working method attempts a synthesis of the hyperbolized to the minimal and the minimized to the hyperbole through a constantly shifting subject/medium relationship.

SCHIPPA holds a BFA from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago where he is currently living and working. He has recently exhibited at Gentili Apri in Berlin, Germany and 180 M2 Space in Madrid, Spain. Aside from his personal work, he is a co-founding member of online painting project PaintFx as well as a collaborative group, No New Info and he is also a member of the online Computers Club Drawing Society.

And good news: his work is currently part of the exhibition Topio Tosy at Courtney Blades, Chicago until January 29th, 2012.