Mike Foran
I don’t believe I follow any philosophy of art. I can create rules and in the next instant disregard them. Ultimately, it’s about play. If it’s not fun, why bother? I like what Carl Jung says about play, “The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the object it loves.” Suggesting, I love paint, and I do!
I attended S.U.N.Y. College at Oswego and the University of Wyoming. I received a Guggenheim fellowship in 1978 and received a Roswell artist in residence grant 1979.
Creative Infuences
Bela Bartok |
Ornette Coleman |
The Mothers of Invention |
Stuart Davis |
Steve Reich |
Captain BeefHeart |
Piet Mondrian |
Edgar Varese |
Lenny Bruce |
Paul Klee |
Charles Mingus |
Thomas Merton |
Ad Rheinhardt |
Duke Ellington |
Beatrix Potter |
The Hairy Who |
Cecil Taylor |
Earnest H. Shepard |
Hampton Hawes |
The Art Ensemble of Chicago |
Miyazaki |
Hokusai |
Hiroshigi |
H.C. Westerman |
Thelonious Monk |
Miles Davis |
Jorge Luis Borges |