About The Artist
Though contemporary artist Michael Sprouse has been working professionaly for over 20
years, he began his foray onto the national art scene after becoming co-owner
and curator of the acclaimed eklektikos gallery of art in Washington, DC
in 1993. Over the next 10 years as curator of eklektikos gallery, he organized
hundreds of exhibits incorporating thousands of artworks from countless
artists from across the nation and the globe. He also served as curator
for off-site exhibitions for several embassies and various art organizations
in the DC Metro area.
In 1999, Sprouse turned away from the abstracted style of work that he had
been known for locally and produced an entirely new body of work consisting
of haunting and touching contemporary narrative portraits which he modeled
after the empyrean facial expressions found in the subjects of vintage portrait
photography. This new work took the DC art scene by storm and lead to a
full page glowing review in the Washington Post Arts section.
Since closing eklektikos gallery in 2002, Sprouse has worked full-time creating
his specialized work which can now be found in private and public collections
across the United States, Europe, Canada, and South America. These neo-romantacisim
examples of some of Sprouse's work have been called "evocatively beautiful"
and "mesmerizing" by art critics and collectors alike in such
publications as The Washington Post, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution,
The Baltimore Sun, Art and Antiques, and more.
Some collectors of Sprouse’s work include Best Selling author
David Lozell Martin, Progressive Talk Radio personality
Randi Rhodes, Daniel H. Schulman - President of Priceline.com,
Academy Award winning director Quentin Tarantino, and César
Gaviria Trujillo - former President of Colombia and Secretary General
of the Organization of American Sates.
Original
works by artist Michael Sprouse can be found in private and corporate art
collections across the United States, Europe, Canada and South America and his work is represented by several fine art galleries across the United States.
"True art takes note not merely of form but also of
what lies behind." - Goethe