Michael Krueger
07.01.2024 - 07.31.2024
Grounded firmly in drawing, Michael Krueger works in a variety of media, including painting, drawing, printmaking, animation, and ceramics. Krueger’s artwork reflects a deep interest in American history and contemporary culture, art history, the human experience, and personal memoir. His latest series of landscape-based works are inspired by William Shakespeare’s “The Tempest,” and its story of Prospero, the one-time Duke of Milan and powerful magician who conjures a storm to torment the survivors of a shipwreck.
Artspace Project Wall
In the distance of time (draws, and is charmed from moving), to be featured this summer on the Artspace Project Wall, an inky night sky and an ocean’s white-capped swell are illuminated by the blazing descent of an otherworldly comet. As this interstellar traveler meets the Earth’s atmosphere, it threatens to collapse the space between geological and cosmological time into a singular extinguishing moment while reminding us of nature’s awe-inspiring power.
Michael Krueger’s artwork has been exhibited internationally and is found in numerous public and private collections, including the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; Denver Museum of Art, Denver, CO; Fogg Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; Estonian National Museum of Art, Tallinn, Estonia; Library of Congress, Washington, DC; Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO; New York Public Library, New York, NY; RISD Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI; Frans Masereel Centre, Kasterlee, Belgium; Weisman Museum of American Art, Minneapolis, MN; and the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY.
Krueger is also a professor at University of Kansas, and he has taught numerous workshops across the country and abroad, including the Cranbrook Academy of Art; Rhode Island School of Design; Edinburgh College of Art, Scotland; St. Luc, E.R.G., Brussels, Belgium; Instituto Superior de Arte, Asunción, Paraguay; and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston.