Michael
Kessler was born in 1954 in Hanover, Pennsylvania.
He currently lives and works in Santa Fe, New
Mexico. Michael Kessler's rhythmic and elegantly
layered geometric abstractions are held in museums
and major collections throughout the world. While
the compositions of his heavily-layered acrylic
works are based in hard-edged geometric painting,
they are not hiding measured mathematical formulas:
their rhythms are loose and opulently musical.
Kessler's paintings reveal themselves in time:
while they might seem tightly intellectual at
first, they ultimately revel in lush tonality and
the complexities of layering, color, transparency
and texture. Michael Kessler has won major awards
such as the Rome Prize of the American Academy and
the prestigious Pollock/Krasner Award.
Michael Kessler (1954- )