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Michael Ray Charles

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Michael Ray Charles (Born 1967) is active/lives in Texas.  Michael Charles is known for Modernist naive ethnic droll figure.

Michael Ray Charles (1967)

He was born in 1967 in Lafayette, Louisiana, and graduated from McNeese State University in Lake Charles, Louisiana, in 1985.  In college, he studied advertising design and illustration, eventually moving into painting. 

Charles also received an MFA degree from the University of Houston in 1993.

"His graphically styled paintings investigate racial stereotypes drawn from a history of American advertising, product packaging, billboards, radio jingles, and television commercials.  Charles draws comparisons between Sambo, Mammy, and minstrel images of an earlier era and contemporary mass-media portrayals of black youths, celebrities, and athletes—images he sees as a constant in the American subconscious. "Stereotypes have evolved," he notes. "I'm trying to deal with present and past stereotypes in the context of today's society." Caricatures of African-American experience, such as Aunt Jemima, are represented in Charles's wo   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1647 characters.]  Artist bio

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.  There are 24 similar (related) artists for Michael Ray Charles available:    Jim Lambie,  Marlene Dumas,  Weiwei Ai,  Carroll Dunham,  Franz West,  Anish (Sir) Kapoor,  Vik Muniz,  Gardar Eide Einarsson,  Albert Oehlen,  Anselm Reyle,  Jean Tinguely,  Ray (Edward) Johnson,  Francesco Clemente,  Lucio Fontana,  John Currin,  Richard Art Hambleton,  Sterling Ruby,  Mike Bidlo,  Georg Kern Baselitz,  Chris (Christopher) Ofili,  Mark Flood,  Raymond (St Pettibone) Pettibon,  Zhang Huan,  Richard Prince



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Facts about Michael Ray Charles

   Publications  Book References:  3
Magazine References:  7

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7 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Michael Ray Charles
Magazine Article Date Author Color
ARTnews The ARTnews 200 Top Collectors July 2004 Editors, ARTnews No
Art in America Report from Houston-Learning from October 2003 Colpitt, Frances Yes
ARTnews The Rise of African American Art September 2003 Kinsella, Eileen Yes
ARTnews ARTtalk November 2002 Editors, ARTtalk No
Art in America Art on TV February 2002 Heartney, Eleanor Yes
ARTnews Pride or Prejudice March 1999 Newkirk, Pamela Yes
Art in America Review of Exhibitions December 1996 Editors, Art in America Yes
3 Book References for Michael Ray Charles
Year Author Title Pages Color
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)		 The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
1998 Taha, Halima Collecting African American Art Works on Paper and Canvas 270 Yes
1993 Phoenix Art Museum Contemporary Identities 1993 Phoenix Triennial
(Exhibition catalog)		 96 Yes
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