Artists' Fellowship - 2000
Painting
Artist Statement:
"l...did a 40 painting series entitled, Eat, Drink that depicted the enjoyment of food as a social and societal phenomena.... I used bold dancing colors integrated with sharp realism in overindulgent compositions. The work is a somewhat heroic and adventurous journey into men’s and women s relationships with the computer as interpreted by the artist. It is explosive and should blow the socks off the art world. It is slick. It is visually subtle but interpretively suggestive and overtly non-violent. It is stimulating yet not too provocative although deadly seductive and sensual. STAY TUNED." Singletary’s concern with relations among people of different races informs many of the works in this series of blowsy oils. Despite his deep connection to these themes, the artist successfully cuts the weight of his subjects with humor, while retaining his original social commentary.
More about the Artist:
Listed in Who's Who in American Art, Who's Who in America, Who's Who i n the World, Who's Who in the East and Who's Who in Entertainment. His work has been featured in Spike Lee's films "Mo Better Blues" and "Jungle Fever," "The Cosby Show,' "227" and "The Guiding Light." His very successful "Jazz Series, "a series of over 100 paintings celebrating jazz and the people who play "the music" has been internationally acclaimed and represented in many art galleries and art magazines. He has also exhibited with many noted musicians as the late Dizzy Gillespie and Nancy Wilson. Many of these jazz paintings can now be seen on the CDs of noted musicians Don Pullen (Random Thoughts), Bobby Watson (Post Motown Bop), Bill Saxton and Blue Note Records. A documentary film of these works entitled "The Jazz Painter" (Kiro Films) has recently been shown in tokyo, Japan.
Michael has exhibited in over 200 different exhibits including the Bayly Museum, Harlem Studio Museum, Whitney Museum, The Hudson River Museum, The Nueberger Museum, Sotheby, Lew Allen Gallery, Lubin House Gallery, The Jazz Museum, Pepsi Cola, Kraft General Foods and eaders Digest. He has also exhibited with many noted artists including Andy Warhol, Romere Beardon, Chuck Close, Red Grooms, David Hockney, Robert indiana, Lowell Nesbitt, Claes Olenberg, Fernando Botero, Philip Pearlstein, Robert Mapplethorpe and many, many more. His slides are currently included in the Museum of Modern Art Library. He has also been featured in Ebony Magazine, and is the official artist for the "New York City Basketball Hall of Fame."
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