About Mic

Mic Carlson, eclectic artist whose passions for life and art are vividly seen in his colorful canvas. His work has a sense of many artists. By experimenting with his palette, Mic entices the viewer to his own originality known as Micart. His colorful personality allows him to explore many avenues and search to express in unlimited mediums and breathe the life of artistic freedom.

Traveling throughout Europe, Mic studied and learned from the works of old masters. He studied and painted in Italy and Greece in 1995, living in Marsciano, Italy, learning history, and religion in art under Reverend Terry Atkinson. He also visited the Netherlands, Germany, Belgium and France. In 1999, Mic returned to Europe with his mate Susan Evangelista and created a colorful heartfelt 100 page hard cover book of their travels, titled "Europe, Our Overseas Adventure". Mic has continued to travel, photographing Europe and the United States from New York to Portland, Oregon. Mic is a prolific artist visiting libraries and museums, never limiting his possibilities, learning from people long gone, his loving family and his many friends that surround him. Mic's commissioned portraits reside in many businesses in the Grand Rapids area. His work is also finding its way into many private collections throughout the United States and Europe. He recently completed a ten month restoration project of world renowned artist Mathias Alten's mural, in a Grand Rapids home which was featured on a national television broadcast. The program called "If Walls Could Talk" appeared on HGTV.

Next year Micasso productions is organizing an exhibition of 20 bronze statues of St. Francis at the Basilica of Saint Francis in Assisi.

Mic has just returned from Italy for two shows. These exhibitions are oil paintings of Italian and Michigan scenes and 5 bronze statues of St. Francis. For the first show Mic has been invited by the Sister Cities Official delegates of Perugia for their 10th year anniversary, to have an exhibition October 3rd through the 12th, 2003, at the ancient church of S. Maria della Misericordi.The exhibition will then travel to Assisi, Italy, October 17th through the 26th, showing at Galleria Raffaele Ariante with Italian photographer Andrea Angelucci of Assisi.