SELECTED WORKS
PASSION PLAY, 2021, ACRYLIC ON CANVAS, 60 X 72 INCHES
(PRIVATE COLLECTION)
PORTRAIT OF ERIS DETAIL 1
PORTRAIT OF ERIS DETAIL 2
PORTRAIT OF ERIS, GREEK GODDESS AND HOLDER OF CHAOS AND DISCORD FOR HUMANITY 2022, ACRYLIC ON CANVAS WITH AN ARCHITECTURE OF
48 EMBEDDED ROSES AND OVER 100 EMBEDDED TULIP PETALS, 108 X 72 INCHES
PORTRAIT OF ERIS DETAIL 3
SHE DANCED TO HER OWN MUSIC 2021, ACRYLIC ON CANVAS, 60 X 72 INCHES
(SOLD)
ENDLESS POSSIBILITIES 2020, ACRYLIC ON CANVAS, 72 X 96 INCHES
(PRIVATE COLLECTION)
IN A MOMENT OF JOY 2022, ACRYLIC ON CANVAS, 36 X 36 INCHES
IN A MOMENT OF JOY DETAIL 1
PORTRAIT OF EPIONE DETAIL 1
PORTRAIT OF EPIONE, GREEK GODDESS OF PERSONAL TOUCH AND MOTHER OF HEALERS 2022, ACRYLIC ON CANVAS, WITH AN ARCHITECTURE OF EMBEDDED ROSES AND TULIP PETALS, 108 X 72 INCHES
PORTRAIT OF EPIONE DETAIL 2
PORTRAIT OF EPIONE DETAIL 3
SHE ROSE TO THE OCCASION AND HER DREAMS FOLLOWED - AN ARCHETYPAL PORTRAIT OF THE CINDERELLA ARCHETYPE 2016
ACRYLIC ON 36 CANVASES OF VARYING DEPTH, PAINTED AND MOUNTED AS ONE, 38 X 38 X 3 INCHES
APOLLO IN MID-HEAVEN 2020, ACRYLIC ON CANVAS, 72 X 72 INCHES
JUPITER AND MARS 2019, ACRYLIC ON CANVAS, 36 X 72 INCHES
(SOLD)
LADY IN WAITING 2020, ACRYLIC ON CANVAS, 72 X 60 INCHES
(PRIVATE COLLECTION)
THE PATH LESS TAKEN 2017, ACRYLIC ON CANVAS WITH AN ARCHITECTURE OF EMBEDDED ROSE PETALS, 36 X 36 INCHES
BREATH OF SPRING 2016, ACRYLIC ON CANVAS, 48 X 72 INCHES
SUMMER OF LOVE 2016, ACRYLIC ON CANVAS, 60 X 36 INCHES
(SOLD)
Mike Chearney is a self taught…
…American painter. Inspired by the creative freedom of his early Baltimore childhood, he is known for his energetic abstract portraits. He believes his art transmits its own positively charged energy vibration through channeled color frequencies specific to his subject, in effect aspiring to create an uplifting portrait of the subject’s soul or best self. Pioneering a new way of looking at a person, place, or thing, Chearney’s work explores the ability of art to transmit a tangible and measurable energetic signature. Mr. Chearney loves Los Angeles and has lived and worked there since beginning his professional painting career in 2005. A second career fine artist, Chearney fuses his Madison Avenue advertising background with his deep meditation and mindfulness practice and his love of organic living.
In 2015, a turning point in Chearney’s work, his portrait of iconic art patron Joan Quinn, was the featured work in a Cornell Museum retrospective featuring portraits by Basquiat, Moses, Gehry, Graham and more. In a Gadsden Arts Center Museum exhibition in 2016, Chearney achieved a life long dream of being listed in a catalogue next to his first inspiration, Marc Chagall. In 2017, he received the Creative Vision Award from the national charity “A Window Between Worlds” for his artistic exploration of large scale energetic healing.
Living and working outside the lines, there is no separation between the studio, the canvas and the dance of painting as Chearney creates. His is a highly physical and spontaneous intuitive process. Often building on an organic architecture, it is not unusual to find an embedded rose petal in a Chearney portrait. Chearney exhibited at Greece’s leading contemporary gallery, The Rarity Gallery, in Mykonos in the Spring and Summers of 2018 and 2019 and he is currently showing new paintings based on his experiences in Greece and its energy as the birthplace of democracy and the arts.