Collection: Michael Kagan

Michael Kagan (1980), space enthusiast and painter extrapolates iconic snapshots of history that unravel abstraction and representation into heroic contemporary portraits.
Kagan is fascinated by the limits of human potential. His mesmerising paintings depict surfers, race car drivers, and, most prominently, iconic histories of space travel. The works oscillate between extremes in their form and content: up-close they fall into abstraction but farther away they tighten into overt and familiar representations that retell exceptional moments at the cusp of possibility and fatal consequence.