#troy montes michie

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Troy Montes Michie Ramona (La Pachuca), 2022 Paper, acrylic, ink, graphite, conté, grease pencil, watercolor, and polyester thread on canvas

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Troy Montes Michie: Rock of Eye at Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston, Tx On View: September 23, 2022 - January 29, 2023

#troy montes michie #rock of eye #art #contemporary art #houston #houston texas #texas #tx #hou #graphite #grease pencil #colored pencil #woven paper #zoot suit #el paso artist #el paso #artist #latinx #queerness #queer art

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Troy Montes-Michie cites the US/Mexico border as his “first experience with the language of collage,” describing it as an amalgamation of “two very separate cultures colliding on every level.” In “Rock of Eye” at the California African American Museum, he uses this intersection to broaden conversations of intimacy and the queer Black body.

#troy montes-michie #collage #art #painting #sculpture #los angeles #border art #california african american museum

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Troy Montes-Michie: Rock of Eye

Contemporary Art Museum of Houston

#Troy Montes-Michie #CAMH

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Troy Montes Michie (A '15)

Rock of Eye Contemporary Arts Museum of Houston (CAMH) September 23, 2022–January 29, 2023 5216 Montrose Blvd, Houston, TX 77006

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Interdisciplinary painter and collage artist Troy Michie (b. 1985) was raised in El Paso, Texas, and his work reflects the complexities of growing up multiracial along the U.S.-Mexico border. Michie began his formal training as a figurative painter and quickly brought collage elements onto his canvases. A central motif of these compositions is the Black male body—nude portraits, excised from vintage erotic magazines, appear frequently, often with clothes drawn onto them. A recent series examines the cultural history of the zoot suit in the Southwest, while other new pieces focus on the mysteries of the erotic male form: “There has to be something that isn’t totally easy to figure out,” Michie says. While the politics of representation of marginalized communities are a persistent theme, present, too, are formal considerations: many of Michie’s canvases rely on a nuanced approach to abstraction and color, and he relishes in the technical aspects of drawing, citing Mexican muralist José Clemente Orozco’s figurative work and Belgian painter René Magritte’s representational canvases as influences.

https://www.troymichie.com/

https://artviewer.org/troy-michie-at-company/

https://hyperallergic.com/748713/collage-as-a-strategy-of-cultural-collision-troy-montes-michie/

https://www.theparisreview.org/art-photography/7602/new-and-recent-work-troy-michie

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We're kicking off Pride Month 2022 with 'Troy Montes-Michie: Rock of Eye,' a book that has kept us looking, and then looking again. ⁠ ⁠ To tailor a garment by “rock of eye” is to rely on the drape—on experience over mathematical measurement—in the fitting process. It is a kind of drawing in space—a freehand, an intuition, a trust of materials. 'Rock of Eye,' published on the occasion of Troy Montes-Michie’s (born 1985) solo exhibition at the California African American Museum, is a collection of the artist’s collages, drawings, and found and woven images sourced from vintage erotic magazines, French tailoring magazines, found photographs and other materials. ⁠ ⁠ Published by @sigliopress ⁠@followriversinstitute @caaminla 'Rock of Eye' "revels in contradiction, ambivalence, beauty, queerness, time, and place," according to Rasheeda Saka at Alta Magazine.⁠ ⁠ According to @alexgreenberger @artnews "In the artist’s hands, the images’ sitters are rendered more complex through elisions and additions that cause them to double and seem slightly imperceptible."⁠ ⁠ And @laura_larson_studio @photoeyebooks writes, "Montes-Michie’s critical gestures of veiling are both protective and defiant. Desire isn’t banished from the frame, and this is the joyful knot of the work. He beholds his subjects with tenderness and dresses them in their rebellious threads."⁠ ⁠ Read more about the book via linkinbio!⁠ ⁠ #troymontesmichie #rockofeye⁠ @troymichie #pride #lgbtqpride #lgbtq #pridemonth⁠ ⁠ https://www.instagram.com/p/CeQ_wqju3Pv/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#troymontesmichie #rockofeye #pride #lgbtqpride #lgbtq #pridemonth

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🪡👁 @troymichie book “Rock of Eye” (2021) “To tailor a garment by “rock of eye” is to rely on the drape—on experience over mathematical measurement—in the fitting process. It is a kind of drawing in space—a freehand, an intuition, a trust of materials. Published on the occasion of Troy Montes-Michie’s solo exhibition at the California African American Museum, Rock of Eye is an artist’s book comprised of altered, collaged and drawn source materials, some familiar from Montes-Michie’s recent large-scale paintings and collages that center on the Black male body and his series tracing the social history and form of the zoot suit, others opening new avenues of investigation. Rock of Eye is a tactile and sensuous artist’s book, recalling the forms of both magazines and swatch books. Troy Montes-Michie begins the sequence—of works altering material from vintage erotic magazines, French tailoring magazines, found photographs, sewing patterns, and more—with portraits that serve to distort the white gaze of the Black queer body, and inverting the boundary between hyper-visibility and invisibility. In the book, these striking disruptions metamorphose into woven abstractions and then into landscapes. His stitches are scars, reparations, suturing histories and geographies; his cuts and folds both pattern and map. These images create thresholds for new crossings: his needle hits rock. A study in the ambiguity between portraiture and landscape, Rock of Eye reflects Montes-Michie’s experience growing up in El Paso, Texas, navigating borders and the spaces between them.” text via @sigliopress —— #ListeningToImages #Archives #SonicFrequency #Moodboard #HapticImages #ArchiveOfArchives #BlackVisuals #BlackGaze #BlackArchives #BlackAndWhitePhotos #Afrofuturism #DigitalArchives #AfricanArchives #Listening2Images #CathodeRay #CathodeRayStudio #TroyMichie #TinaCampt #ABlackGaze #Assemblage #Juxtapozition https://www.instagram.com/p/CWNx_4_Mpv1/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Troy Montes-Michie: Rock of Eye

Contemporary Art Museum of Houston

#Troy Montes-Michie #CAMH

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Nadia Ayari (A '06), Coady Brown (A ‘17), Esteban del Valle (A '11), Angela Dufresne (F ‘17), Alicia Henry (A '90), Elliott Hundley (A '02), Troy Montes Michie (A '15), Bridget Mullen (A ‘16), Sarah Oppenheimer (F '15), Duane Slick (A '86)

Density's Glitch Fine Art Works Center 24 Pearl Street, Provincetown, MA 02657 May 26 - August 28 

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Everyone should know about this book: 'Troy Montes-Michie: Rock of Eye' — published by @sigliopress and reviewed this month in @bombmag⁠ ⁠ Sharon Mizota writes: "Making clothing is the art of turning two dimensions into three: cutting, sewing, and shaping flat cloth into something that cloaks and protects the body. Artist Troy Montes-Michie evokes this transformation in his collages, layering paper sewing patterns and actual stitching over images of Black and brown men from vintage pornographic magazines. He further garbs them in hand-drawn undershirts and voluminous Zoot suit pants or strategically cuts and pastes the images themselves to interrupt our prurient gaze, placing us in a subject position often presumed to be white and male, only to disrupt our access to these Black and brown bodies. In doing so, Montes-Michie brings a new dimension to their subjectivity.…"⁠ ⁠ "The book leaves one yearning for something, but it’s not straightforward lust. It’s more like a wistfulness, wondering what has not been said."⁠ ⁠ Read the full review via linkinbio.⁠ ⁠ Text by Andrea Andersson, Tina Campt. Interview by Brent Edwards. Afterword by Cameron Shaw.⁠ ⁠ @sigliopress ⁠@followriversinstitute @caaminla & @troymichie #troymontesmichie #rockofeye⁠ @compostition⁠ https://www.instagram.com/p/CbarPmfpElX/?utm_medium=tumblr

#troymontesmichie #rockofeye

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Feast your eyes on 'Troy Montes-Michie: Rock of Eye,' published to accompany the exhibition opening today @caaminla !!⁠ ⁠ To tailor a garment by “rock of eye” is to rely on the drape—on experience over mathematical measurement—in the fitting process. It is a kind of drawing in space—a freehand, an intuition, a trust of materials. 'Rock of Eye' is a collection of the artist’s collages, drawings, and found and woven images sourced from vintage erotic magazines, French tailoring magazines, found photographs and other materials. These materials are familiar from Montes-Michie’s recent large-scale paintings and collages that center on the Black male body and his series that traces the social history and form of the zoot suit. ⁠ ⁠ Troy Montes-Michie was born in El Paso and his practice reflects his experience growing up along the US/Mexico border. This book is a study in ambiguity between portraiture and landscape; his are the cuts and folds of patterning and mapping. In 'Rock of Eye,' Montes-Michie’s stitches suture histories and geographies; they establish thresholds for crossing; his needle hits rock. Including essays by Tina Campt and editor @andreaanderssonrivers with an interview by @brenthayesedwards 'Rock of Eye' is a tactile and sensuous artist’s book recalling the form of fabric swatch books and affirming that collage is an art of selection.⁠ ⁠ Published by @sigliopress ⁠@followriversinstitute & @caaminla ⁠ ⁠ Read more about the book via linkinbio!⁠ ⁠ #troymontesmichie #rockofeye⁠ @troymichie #collage #textile⁠ ⁠ https://www.instagram.com/p/CaCt_0tFKJd/?utm_medium=tumblr

#troymontesmichie #rockofeye #collage #textile

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Attention Troy Montes-Michie fans! The artist's work appears on the limited edition cover of @gayletter 15! ⁠ ⁠ See more work by @troymichie in 'Rock of Eye,' the new release from @sigliopress ⁠@followriversinstitute and @caaminla⁠ ⁠ Info available via linkinbio.⁠ ⁠ #troymontesmichie #rockofeye⁠ ⁠ https://www.instagram.com/p/CXzBRK5J-h-/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Congrats @sigliopress & @troymichie !! 'Rock of Eye' is one of 11 books picked by @vanityfair this month!⁠ ⁠ @allison.schaller writes: "In his new book, 'Rock of Eye,' multimedia artist Troy Montes-Michie cuts, folds, sews and paints a variety of mediums—textiles, archival paper and images from newsprint to pornography—as a means of investigation and altering the white gaze on the Black queer body. Montes-Michie’s reworked images become a study of portraiture and history, and allude to geography, reflecting his experience growing up in El Paso, Texas, surrounded by borders—visible and not. It was published on the occasion of Montes-Michie’s solo exhibition at the @caaminla which will be on view from February 16–September 4, 2022.⁠ ⁠ Read more about the book via linkinbio!⁠ ⁠ #troymontesmichie #rockofeye⁠ ⁠ https://www.instagram.com/p/CXwf_QrJHQD/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Hot book alert! @troymichie 'Rock of Eye' is NEW from @sigliopress @followriversinstitute and @caaminla ⁠ ⁠ To tailor a garment by “rock of eye” is to rely on the drape—on experience over mathematical measurement—in the fitting process. It is a kind of drawing in space—a freehand, an intuition, a trust of materials. 'Rock of Eye,' published on the occasion of Montes-Michie’s solo exhibition at the California African American Museum, is a collection of the artist’s collages, drawings, and found and woven images sourced from vintage erotic magazines, French tailoring magazines, found photographs and other materials. These materials are familiar from Montes-Michie’s recent large-scale paintings and collages that center on the Black male body and his series that traces the social history and form of the zoot suit. ⁠ ⁠ Troy Montes-Michie was born in El Paso and his practice reflects his experience growing up along the US/Mexico border. This book is a study in ambiguity between portraiture and landscape; his are the cuts and folds of patterning and mapping. In 'Rock of Eye,' Montes-Michie’s stitches suture histories and geographies; they establish thresholds for crossing; his needle hits rock. Including essays by #TinaCampt and editor @andreaanderssonrivers with an interview by @brenthayesedwards 'Rock of Eye' is a tactile and sensuous artist’s book recalling the form of fabric swatch books and affirming that collage is an art of selection.⁠ ⁠ Afterword by #cameronshaw⁠ ⁠ Read more via linkinbio.⁠ ⁠ #troymontesmichie #collage #rockofeye #tailoring #yellowthread https://www.instagram.com/p/CXJ0LsuJyAC/?utm_medium=tumblr

#tinacampt #cameronshaw #troymontesmichie #collage #rockofeye #tailoring #yellowthread