{"id":117,"date":"2019-05-11T20:19:11","date_gmt":"2019-05-11T20:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kennethcurtis.com\/articles\/?p=117"},"modified":"2019-05-22T18:33:25","modified_gmt":"2019-05-23T00:33:25","slug":"micki-muhlbauer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennethcurtis.com\/articles\/2019\/05\/11\/micki-muhlbauer\/","title":{"rendered":"Micki Muhlbauer"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n
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Before I start the profile, I want to make sure that I let everyone know that I have added Mic to the site without her permission. I needed some content, so I wrote for an hour or two. This shouldn’t be considered a “true ” look at her work. Hopefully in the near future I’ll contact her to do a full interview.<\/strong><\/p>\r\n

The first artist that kennethcurtis.com would profile seemed like an easy one. I chose my longtime friend and mentor, Mic Muhlbauer. I’ve known her for about 21 years and she was one of my first professors when I entered undergrad and I am still as impressed with her work as I was the first time that I saw it so long ago. Though retired now, she lives a comfortable life following the life of an artist in Santa Fe, New Mexico.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Mic’s main body of work contains a playful feel that embraces caricature”ism” melded with realism. Looking at her work you get a sense of stepping into her life as she lived it. I think that’s what makes it so interesting to me that I feel as if I’m getting a glimpse into her life. Even the people that are portrayed in her work seem to remind me of people that I realize that I don’t know, but maybe have seen somewhere. Maybe these unnamed people remind me of someone that I have known in my life.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Discussing Mic’s painting’s special knack of bringing the viewer into her world is to me, unique, but she has also moved to other types of work as well. She has a whole body of work that is 3D or sculptural. I’m the first to say that I am in no way an expert in castings or 3D, but from I can see in Mic’s sculptural work has the same basic playfulness that her paintings do.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

\u00a0<\/i>A selection of Mic’s work <\/a><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Before I start the profile, I want to make sure that I let everyone know that I have added Mic to the site without her permission. I needed some content, so I wrote for an hour or two. This shouldn’t be considered a “true ” look at her work. Hopefully in the near future I’ll contact her to do a full interview. The first artist that kennethcurtis.com would profile seemed like an easy one. I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[28,29,25,21,26,19,27,24,30,20,22,23],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennethcurtis.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennethcurtis.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennethcurtis.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennethcurtis.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennethcurtis.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":39,"href":"https:\/\/kennethcurtis.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":305,"href":"https:\/\/kennethcurtis.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions\/305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennethcurtis.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennethcurtis.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennethcurtis.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}