Next on view we will feature Work on Paper, Kent Mikalsen’s work, which will

open on September 18, with a reception that evening from 5:30 – 7 pm.

Mikalsen, a resident of Williamstown, grew up in New York City and earned

degrees from the University of Florida, focusing primarily on sculpture. His

extensive work has been included in prestigious regional and national shows and

major museum collections, and he received commissions for large outdoor

sculptures. His work also includes experience as a designer and concept artist in

architecture, as well as visual effects for feature firm, animation, and

entertainment park design.

At the height of his career Mikalsen recognized that his life had a certain lacking

and unfulfillment. He moved into an ashram and for ten years studied yoga,

meditation, and other transformational processes. He states that this experience

had a profound effect on his art, that his work “became a meditation on the

nature of non-physical reality.”

The current exhibit features, as the title states, works on paper. The drawings

deal with the same concepts as his sculptures do: the dialogue of the ethereal and

large, heavy materials.