Paul Michael Graves is an abstract artist based in New York City. His work is a meditation on pattern, color, and form. He paints each figure extemporaneously, building on a language of repeating geometric elements. The interconnected patterns suggest the rationality of modernism, the ambiguity of post-modernism, and the visual resonance of ancient scripts—though these echoes are unintentional.
Entirely abstract, his work references nothing beyond itself.
“Across the page the symbols moved in grave morrice, in the mummery of their letters, wearing quaint caps of squares and cubes… flashing in their mocking mirrors the obscure soul of the world, a darkness shining in brightness which brightness could not comprehend. —Do you understand now?” from Ulysses by James Joyce.
Graves was born in 1976 and raised in Redlands, California. He earned a B.S. in Mathematics from the U.S. Air Force Academy and a Master of Architecture from Columbia University. His studio is in the West Chelsea Arts Building in Manhattan. See more here, here, here or click here for resumé.
Email: paul@paulmichaelgraves.com
