Michael Stack was
born in New York in 1947 and raised in California. He is self-taught and has
always been interested in art, primarily landscape painting. For the past
twenty years, he has lived and painted in New Mexico and Arizona, and has
sought to capture on canvas the skies and the openness of the southwestern
landscape. The focus of his works
is the fleeting moment of shadow, light and color that awakens an emotional
response in the viewer.
His paintings are
included in collections in the United States, Europe and Japan. Stack's work
has appeared on the cover as the featured artist of "Southwest Art",
August 1992 and "Art of the West", August-September 1993. He has also
been featured in "Southwest Art" in 1987, "U.S. Art" in and
1989 as well as various other national and local publications.
In the fall of 1997 Stack
was inducted as a Master Artist for the Artist of America show sponsored by the
Denver Rotary. In 1996 we was named the Tucson Artist of the Year, the
twenty-fourth to be honored.
Michael Stack finds
inspiration for his paintings from the landscapes around his home in the
foothills of the Santa Catalina Mountains near Tucson, Arizona. His paintings
are all of actual places that Stack has visited. Stack's paintings are noted
for the use of light and cloud formations.
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