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| Michael Magrath Seattle WA Michael Magrath makes sculpture which focuses on the story and psychology and of the individual. Generally solitary and quiet, they evoke a sense not of isolation, but of intense interiorality. Magrath's focus is on the integral beauty of each individual confronting their particular situation, and not on universal notions of ideal form. Coming of age at a time when there was very little training available in representational arts, Magrath is primarily self taught. He received a BA in Literature and History from Reed College with a thesis that investigated the development of myth from the events of daily life. It was as a tradesman that he approached the visual arts, supporting himself as a housepainter, carpenter, foundryman, and sculpture shop tech while persuing his art. He studied independently at Hipbone Studios in Portland, monitored classes at the Seattle Academy of Art, and studied with Robert Bodem at the Florence Academy. Magrath has taught drawing, public art, figure sculpture, and metal fabrication at the University of Washington, and taught figure sculpture and anatomy at the Sculpture Academy of London. Magrath has completed numerous commissions including a fourteen-panel relief series Stations of the Cross, Resurrection Altarpiece, a pregnant 'Our Lady of Life", and a Virgin of the Assumption for the Archdiocese of Portland. He was the recipient of the 2000 Interfaith Forum on Religious Art and Architecture Award for Religious Sculpture. He recently has completed his MFA in sculpture at the University of Washington. |
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