MAT GLEASON, LOS ANGELES, CA — Michael Arata embraces the abject with the pleasant sentimentality of a proud uncle. The subjects that most people would cringe from and few artists would ever consider are his preferred topics. Be it photographing his own daily bowel movements or diligently painting portraits of convicted child molesters, Arata is an earnest, hard-working artist whose monastic studio...
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Michael Arata on the Awkward Hour Oct 19 2014
The Awkward Hour travels to LA to visit artist Michael Arata in his stud...
Mike Arata Past and Present: LA Art in the 90s
Your shows at Miller Durazo? “Killer Rainbows. I mostly remember random openings. It was a nice gritty time to get together with other artist and complain, dialog, plan and socialize. It was more like an art club.“Life was bleak in the mid-nineties. I was teaching for low income and the future did not...
PET SPACES – WHITTIER COLLEGE
MICHAEL ARATA: PET SPACES; WHITTIER COLLEGE MENDENHALL · WHITTIER, CALIFORNIAMichael Arata, “Spanking Machine,”, 2001-04, Lambda printIf you saw Michael Arata’s work around the mid-90’s, most curators would have told you he’s headed to hell in a hand basket. In fact, I can still recall a group show...
Campus Circle article, 2011
Flock, 2005, mixed media, dimensions variable, by Michael Arata.“How would you describe this exhibition?” I ask artist Michael Arata.“It’s my life!” he replies.Sure enough, as Arata describes, his exhibition at the Beacon Arts Building truly shows his life as an artist … and perhaps even more. Until...
Arataland Exposition: Examiner article, 2011
Beacon Arts continues its Critics-as-Curators series with Arataland! A Mid-Career Survey of Artworks by Michael Arata curated by art critic Doug Harvey, opening Saturday, March 26, 2011. Arataland! will be the first museum-scale retrospective devoted exclusively to the work of this important Los Angeles...
Mocking Beauty: Artslant, 2011
Arthur Danto in his essay, Why Does Art Need To Be Explained”/Hegel, Biedermeier, and the Intractably Avant-Garde, proposes that contemporary art no longer has, “viewers”. Instead he speculates the proper description of a viewer would be that of an “encounterer.” According to Danto, a work of art is...
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