the destroyer > art > Michael Villareal

:: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: My work creates passages in time that resonate from childhood memories combined with responses to present day experiences. Growing up in a lower middle class family, the value of the second-hand object was an enormous part of my upbringing. I use found objects along with select material use for the construction of houses, turning each work metaphorically domestic. I make objects such as a window blind, or manipulate objects such as a broom, utilizing a surface that mimic an industrial finish while using saturated hues to elicit an emotional response. Quirky bulbous shapes and artificial surface transform the narrative of an object, but visually keep a familiarity. :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: [artist's website]
	Untitled (Window Blinds) Acrylic, primer, joint compound, and insulation foam on panel 51 X 44 X 3.75 inches 2015
	Dispensers (Stacked Boxes) Spray paint, primer, joint compound, and cardboard boxes 23 X 12 X 12 inches 2015
	Nebraskan Sky (Framed Painting) Spray paint, primer, joint compound, and insulation foam on panel 46 X 33 X 4.5 inches 2015 Untitled (Broom) Spray paint, primer, joint compound, and insulation foam on broom 56 X 18 X 28 inches 2015
	Exhausted Pedestal Spray paint, primer, joint compound, plaster and insulation foam on cardboard box 26.5 X 18.5 X 18.5 inches 2015 Untitled (Ice Cream) Spray paint, primer, joint compound on plastic bottle and ceramic cup 16 X 4.5 X 4.5 inches 2015 Tipped Over (Teapot) Spray paint, primer, joint compound on ceramic teapot 6.5 X 6 X 6 inches 2015
	Top shelf Spray paint, primer, joint compound, insulation foam on sponges, can, plastic bottle, shelf 15.5 X 22 X 10.5 inches 2015