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Michael Sarich, MFA

Emeritus Associate Professor; Emeritus Area Head of Painting

Summary

The work of Βι¶ΉΣ³»­ artist, Michael Sarich, is filled with narrative icons and metaphorical imagery of a highly personal, yet universal nature. He studied printmaking and drawing at the College of Salzburg in Austria, earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in printmaking at Northern Illinois University and a Master of Fine Arts in drawing, painting and sculpture at the University of Oklahoma.

Since 1989, he has been an associate professor of art at the Βι¶ΉΣ³»­. His works in printmaking, painting, ceramics and sculpture have been included in many national and international exhibitions. In 2007, he received the Joan Mitchell Award.

Exhibition history

  • Solo Exhibition Props at James Patrick Gallery in Wiscasset, Maine (2005)
  • Solo Exhibition Michael Sarich: A Selectrospective at Oats Park Art Center in Fallon, Βι¶ΉΣ³»­ (2006)
  • Joint exhibition with Jun Kaneko at Stremmel Gallery (2006)
  • Contemporary Figurative Ceramics, The Emerson Center for the Arts and Culture, Bozeman, Montana
  • Michael Sarich: Hush and Babel, Missoula Art Museum, Missoula, Montana
  • Puppet Consumption (2011) & Solo Exhibition Butting Heads (2014), Jay Jay Gallery, Sacramento, California
  • Michael Sarich, Stremmel Gallery, Reno, Βι¶ΉΣ³»­ (2011)
  • Like Love Lust, Michael Sarich Published by the Βι¶ΉΣ³»­ Museum of Art

Courses taught

  • Painting 2
  • Intermediate Painting
  • Advanced Painting
  • Drawing 3
  • Drawing 4
  • Problems in Painting
  • Problems in Drawing
  • Graduate Painting Classes

Education

  • MFA, University of Oklahoma, 1983
  • BFA, Northern Illinois University, 1980