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Hi I'm Mike. I'm an artist.I was born in 1977 in Oliver, British Colombia, Canada to Ted and Carol Czarnecki. When I was only one month old my mom placed me into my makeshift baby carrier (cardboard bulk cereal box with blankets) and the Czarnecki clan up and moved to Kansas City, Ks.Growing up in Kansas City, I was always drawing, painting, playing with clay, inventing games to play, and imagining new possibilities for every day objects. Of course, as the youngest of five children I was never short on ideas and experiences due to my equally creative brothers and sisters. When I wasn't busy drawing my stuffed animals in baseball and soccer uniforms of various colors, or drawing muscle men with multiple biceps on each arm, I was most likely with my brothers - playing made up games in made up lands, or with my sisters - having makeup applied to my face and being forced to play Barbies. In high school I took as many art classes as possible, and learned a great deal of the basics - line, shape, value, texture, composition, perspective, etc. Art was one of my two main passions, the other being soccer. In fact, my first 4 yrs of college were on soccer scholarship - two years at Johnson County CC in Kansas, and two years at Eastern Illinois University. During that time, I made sure to take as many art classes as possible in order to be able to stay eligible to play soccer, which was my main focus (I was sure I was going to be a pro soccer player after college). I left Eastern Illinois without graduating and continued to pursue professional soccer. In 2000, I did get picked up by a professional indoor soccer team (The Kansas City Attack) where I played alongside guys you never heard of like Clovis Simas and "Wild" Wes Wade. In 2001, after hanging up my soccer boots, I enrolled at the Atlanta College of Art. Two years later I graduated with a BFA in Drawing. (Soon after graduating, the Atlanta College of Art was taken over by Savannah College of Art and Design and became SCAD-Atlanta).Since graduating, I have continued to create art and hone my skills and ideas. I have created many commissioned pieces for a variety of people and have of course created many gifts for friends and family. I have had the privilege of creating live art in conjuction with 1027 Church in Atlanta and in 2006, I showed 8 pieces in non-profit venues sponsored by the Georgia Fine Arts Academy. In 2010 I committed to working full time as an artist and continue to do so, though sometimes I have to scale back to part-time due to the unavoidable inconvenience of "other jobs".
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General Information: Age: 33 going on 13 Location: Davidson, NC
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I be edjimucated from the Atlanta College of Art...which is now SCAD-Atlanta.
http://www.scad.edu/atlanta/index.cfm
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I am somewhat selfish in my approach to making art in that the first person that has to be pleased with what I create is me. Art can simply be about the image, or it could be used at times to disturb or exasperate the viewer, or it could be about beauty, or it could be about chipmunks. What thousands of dollars of art school taught me is that there are no rules, no standards, only opinions. Every artist and piece of art that I have ever seen and studied has in some way influenced me. A few artists that I am particularly influenced by: Paul Klee, Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall, Naum Gabo, Claude Monet, Gustav Klimt, Michaelangelo, and Yves Tanguy among many, many others . I am inspired by music and musical instruments, mechanical objects (gears, old tools, old machines, rust), and organic objects (people, bright mornings, landscapes, dirt). I am inspired by biblical imagery and themes, as well as cultural mythology and symbolism. I love history. In my work I primarily use drawing media, watercolor, and acrylic paints/gels/mediums. I keep a sketchbook from which much of my work originates. I normally work in series, and although other artists have dubbed my work "neo-cubist" I personally have not adopted that label. I make art first and foremost because I enjoy it. Most days that’'s what drives me; Art is therapeutic to me...I need it. I make art because I appreciate the gifts that I have been given by God and I want my life to reflect His glory.
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