Michael Velliquette

medium: mixed media

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Borders Beyond 2006 Mixed media	The Intuitive Jungle (installation view, DCKT Contemporary, New York, New York) 2007 Mixed media	The Great Protector 2007 Mixed media
The Great Protector (detail) 2007 Mixed media	The Awaited Return 2006 Mixed media	Exotica 2006 Mixed media
The Intuitive Jungle 2007 Mixed media	Installation view (DCKT Contemporary, New York, New York) 2007 Mixed media	The Intuitive Jungle (study) 2006 Mixed media
Familiar 2006 Mixed media

Contact information
Artist resides in: Madison, WI
Email Address: velliquette@gmail.com
Web site: www.velliquette.com

Artist statement
Michael Velliquette makes mixed media sculptures using an array of lo-fi craft supplies. These objects are often elaborately ornamented and take on a wide variety of forms. At times they are combined in human-scale environments to create complex visual and spatial relationships, and to suggest a sort of homemade 3D cosmography.

In his cut paper works, sheets of multicolored card stock are hand cut into shapes that correspond roughly to a preliminary drawing. These shapes are then glued onto a paper backing in successive layers--working from background to foreground.

His imagery tends to surface through a daily diaristic sketching practice and has emerged in response to his encounters with a wide range of enchanting and aesthetically driven traditions.

Biography
Velliquette received a BFA from The Florida State University in Tallahassee in 1993, and an MFA at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2000. For the past six years he has lived concurrently in San Antonio, Texas, and Madison, Wis. From 2002-2005 he was the Co-Founder and Director of The Bower, an artist-run project space located in San Antonio. He has had solo and group exhibitions in New York, San Antonio, San Francisco, Dallas, Seattle and Houston. He recently participated in a 2007 summer residence at the Millay Colony for the Arts. In 2004, he participated in the Artpace International Artist in Residence Program Award and in 2005 he was a recipient of the Dozier Travel Grant from the Dallas Museum of Art in support of a period of self-directed study in Rome. In 2008 he will have a solo show at Sala Diaz in San Antonio.