Short Bio

Born and raised in Indiana and living in rural Illinois. Creative evangelist, music lover, book lover, backpacker, husband, father and friend. Searching for the next big idea.

Statement

As of Today...

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Each of my works marks a period of my life. A period which is marked in my work. I attempt to show the line of my march and stick to it.

In each of us there are thoughts that we consciously deny. We ignore and refuse their existance. Thoughts of machines, of objects, of bodies, of hands and their expressions.

Sometimes I must admit  calculation in the combination of the images. I  wish to someday attain a  pitiless integrity in my work. Not to admire, but to note.

In attaining these goals the process of creation is more and more alienating from one period to another. There is always the caution that the work will turn into witnesses of a flight inwards which could be dangerous but which may also bring great joy.
There is the thought that both repulsion and beauty are interwoven with fascination. That to delight sometimes you must deliver a blow, then two, then three... until you wish it will stop.

Each painting, each drawing, is a mix of cold and hot passion, striking again, striking again, making people see  what people may really be. To do this you must be stubborn and sometimes profound, and sometimes not. There is a time to disturb with a nudge and a time to dynamite.

Thanks for reading.

Biography

Michael Bruner is an American artist known for his paintings, drawings and illustrations. 

Bruner studied diverse media at Indiana State University including ceramics, metal and plexiglass sculpture, design and printmaking before focusing on painting and drawing. 

Michael Bruner's passionate art often belie the the quiet sensitivity of an artist who has worked successfully with severely handicapped children, instructed inmates at a federal penitentiary and was an artist-in-residence in an elementary school.   During the next ten years Bruner participated in over 50 juried exhibitions in the United States and Europe, and his work resides in the permanent collections of a half dozen Museums and numerous private collections in the United States and Europe. 

 For over twenty years Michael worked as a print and web designer, and after too long an interval has returned to his passion for individual expression.