Pixels:

Image as Mythology, Contemporary Paintings by Michael Azgour

February 8 - June 29, 2025

Lobby Gallery

Pixels is a two-person exhibition featuring painter Michael Azgour and textile artist Michael F. Rohde.

Image as Mythology is an exhibition which Azgour explores the various ways in which images have been used to tell stories over time. The works in the exhibition are diverse in their scope and include larger-than-life portraits of artists, an immense homage to Botticelli’s Birth of Venus, and abstracted outdoor scenes, but they all explore imagery in our contemporary sphere.

The works in this exhibition are part of an ongoing body of figurative paintings by artist Michael Azgour (b. 1979, Los Angeles, CA) and his studio which incorporate hard-edge geometric abstractions (or “pixels”) with expressive representational paint application. The resulting images are in flux between that which signifies something else and that which is an end in itself. The viewer is invited to engage with the works and in doing so to take part in completing the work.

Curated by Sarah Vargas

Images: © Michael Azgour, Portrait of Frida Kahlo, 2024, Acrylic on canvas, 67 x 59 inches | © Michael Azgour, Homage to Botticelli’s Birth of Venus, 2024, Acrylic on canvas, 98” x
159”, Courtesy of the Artist | and Boat House, 2024, Acrylic on canvas, 94 ½ x 80 ½ inches, Both courtesy of the Artist