• Michael Brophy

• Crown Point , 1991

• Oil on Canvas
• 17.00" x 21.00"
• landscape
• Fir Wood frame. Russo Lee Gallery Artist.
  
  Northwest Artist Michael Brophy, b.1960, graduated from the Pacific Northwest College of Art in 1985.
  Over the course of his forty-year career, Brophy has become known, colloquially, as “the guy who paints tree stumps.” He also paints clear cuts and log trucks, parodies housing developments, and addresses environmental destruction with devastating ironic clarity. In his large classical paintings, Brophy explores the interconnectedness of human, natural, and cultural histories — the subtle, often violent interplay between humans and the planet. “There’s no ‘purity’ here; these pictures contain the mess of the world,” he states.
  Michael Brophy is represented by the Russo Lee Gallery in Portland, and his work is in many collections, including Microsoft, the Multnomah County Library Collection, the Portland Art Museum, the Seattle Art Museum, the Tacoma Art Museum, OSU Library in Corvallis, and the City of Portland.
• $550