©POP Gallery Invivtes You To Celebrate The Raw Energy of Life With:
The Rite of Spring
The Aggressively Bold and Brilliantly Idyllic Brushwork of Miguel Linares
"Finally, Spring has sprung and in celebration of a wicked winter’s end ©POP Gallery presents the classical bucolic expressionism of artist, inventor and philanthropist, Miguel Linares, in his inaugural CPOP solo exhibition, “The Rite Of Spring” commencing with an elegant champagne and appetizer opening soiree on Saturday, April 19 at 7PM.
Born in Granada, Spain in 1951, Miguel Linares leads a rare and extraordinary life rife with accomplishment and true creative genius. Miguel expresses his profound concern for the human condition in his career as an inventor, engineer and manufacturer with altruistic creations that run the gamut from hi-tech plastic armor for military vehicles to affordable prosthetics such as human joint replacements, which he’s developed at a fraction of other manufacturers’ cost.
He is a founding member and Executive Vice-President of VPTECH in Auburn Hills and Stratech Manufacturing and Tooling, both specializing in hi-tech injection molding, engineering, and world-class 3DM inventions, consequently holding many patents. As an accomplished painter and sculptor, Linares has exhibited at The Museums of Sevilla, Madrid and Bilboa in Spain, The Institute of Design in New York City and the Detroit Artists Market where he was also a Board member.
After studying painting and sculpture at the University of Granada and drafting and architecture at the Institute of America in Barcelona, Linares emigrated to Detroit in 1971 and continued his education at Wayne State University Medical School. He then switched curriculum and studied painting and sculpture under the great triumvirate of instructors, Russell Keeter, Jay Holland and Tony Williams at The Society Of Arts and Crafts (College for Creative Studies).
Their influence stressed the skill of faithfully rendering the human figure to the point where a Keeter student knew the subtleties of the human body as well as any medical student. The CCS experience also informed his medically inventive side as much as his artistic side, where his paintings ironically involve primarily landscapes and still-lifes in lieu of the human form.
Linares’ sculptural work however, exemplifies his training through true deftness in his realization of the human form in three dimensions.Linares’s inventions utilize recyclable and organic substances like sanitized medical waste, simple bamboo and even straw in his many patented plastic-based alternatives for industry, such as plastic I-beams and lightweight automobile and aerospace materials, or in medicine, with affordable prosthetic joint replacements, and especially in his humanitarian inventions like the portable plastic, self-sustaining house for uses in Africa and other distressed areas.
These houses include a water collection, filtration and holding system, as well as solar powered lamps for both inside and outside these extremely light-weight and inexpensive shelters. Like all his forward thinking innovations, they share the commonalties of problem solving, ergonomics and environmental consciousness.But his paintings most clearly resonate with his reverence of nature. Creating inventions that work to improve people’s health, quality of life and environment requires a deep understanding and love of the natural world, and Miguel Linares most boldly exemplifies this ardor in his rich landscapes, thick with color and subtle movement, an effect that his generous use of an impasto-style application achieves.
While the works seem Post-Impressionist upon first glance, one can also see the influence of Expressionism in his sometimes gently, sometimes violently undulating horizons, or shimmering flora. The Rite Of Spring is a welcome offering after a long cold winter, reminding us of how inexorably connected we all are to our environment.
Miguel Linares creates an idyllic vision of nature through his art, and as an inventor he strives to bring our world a bit closer to that vision in reality.
Along these lines, the artist will donate 100% of his earnings from the exhibit to: Edna Adan Maternity Hospital in Hargeysa, Somalia.More details, source material and imagery of the art and inventions of Miguel Linares are available electronically upon request.
Miguel Linares:
The Rite Of Springopens at ©POP on Saturday, April 19 at 7PM- May 24.
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Detroit, MI 48201
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