Exhibition Dates: September 10- November 5

Sandler Hudson Gallery presents its first exhibition with Chilean painter Ignacio Michaud, since announcing representation in 2021. Red Right Hand will feature large and medium scale paintings that include concepts from Michaud’s unique visual vocabulary, which culls from the crossing of diverse anthropomorphic ancient imagery as well as his own life and the broader culture. Red Right Hand presents paintings that feature Michaud’s wide range of subjects. In a stream of thought manner, Michaud finds internal landscapes made up of rooms and the natural world and populates them with symbols, artifacts, and characters. The works wander between psychological paradoxes that reflect the spirit of the times. The yearning immateriality found in Paul Klee and the erotic in Howard Hodgkin, the quietude in Henri Matisse’s rooms as well as the torment found in those by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. The works also recalls art-historical precedents of the 50’s and 60’s gestural abstraction, suggesting a candid existential aura.

To create his works, the artist uses a three-step system that functions as a self-sustaining/ recycling method. First, he improvises on sticky notes, collects them, and archives them. Then he transfers these sketches onto the canvas, blending them with one another using pencil, pastels, and charcoal. Then he applies color using acrylic and brushes, moving quickly, inviting accidents and chance into the work. This system allows him to carry a self-imposed limitation in which the image appears and disappears in its own impulse, and with little reasoning.

This will be Michaud’s first solo presentation in Atlanta. An accompanying publication will be available at the gallery.

IGNACIO MICHAUD Ignacio Michaud (Chilean, b 1979) is a contemporary painter. He received his BFA from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. His work has been exhibited in group exhibitions in San Francisco, Nashville, Baltimore, Brooklyn and Atlanta among other cities. He is represented by Sandler Hudson Gallery in Atlanta. He lives and works in Atlanta, GA.