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About The Artist
Mike Weber was born in February of 1975 in St. Louis, Missouri. He has degrees in Visual Communications and Computer Animation/Multimedia from Southwest Missouri State University and The Art Institute of Dallas. Weber designed and art directed broadcast graphics and animation New York City for numerous television networks, including Showtime, HBO, Comedy Central, A&E, History Channel, Nickelodeon, ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, WB, and The Golf Channel. In 2001, Weber resigned from his position at Hothaus Creative, an internationally recognized television design and production company, in order to embark on a new career as an artist. He has since exhibited at diverse venues in Missouri, Texas, and Washington, DC. Moreover, his artwork has been featured in New York Times Style Magazine, POPLife, Modern Luxury, Home & Design, Spaces and Bravo TV.
Overview Of Work
In his latest body of work titled Identify, Mike Weber explores concepts of commemoration and heritage, including his own lineage, as he symbolically reinvents the life stories of his unknown or forgotten subjects. He spends months reviewing his vast compilation of source photographs (many date as far back as the early 19th century), seeking out unusual facial expressions and trinkets that make him feel profoundly removed from the captured time period. Weber then selectively and digitally edits and reframes these vintage snapshots, which derive from both his family’s collection and estate sales, into newly composed digital prints on canvas. This process of converting an analog photograph into a digital copy unearths previously overlooked details that shed light on the biography of the sitter and his/her relationship with the faceless photographer. He augments these details with layers of paint, unorthodox collage materials, and high-gloss resin, intensifying the mood of the original photograph. The inclusion of scant, stenciled text invites the viewer to speculate the historical importance of the depicted sitter. Ultimately, his artistic praxis ascribes a new narrative to his source materials and re-presents them as glossy, modern images.
Over the years, Weber has been experimenting with different ways to synthesize photography and painting. His latest works, according to the artist, indicates “a new level of maturity in my artistic practice; these works demonstrate a higher degree of craftsmanship.”
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