Mar 17, 2023
I first saw Mikey Yates work in
our 2020 exhibition Drowned Neon Rose and I've been following him
ever since.
Mikey Yates is Kansas City based
painter born in Sulzbach-Rosenberg, Germany. He grew up drawing the
various characters that colored his life: Scorpion from Mortal
Kombat, Ryu from Street Fighter and Gary Payton from the Sonics.
Yates continues this practice today, but instead of strictly
rendering fictional characters and sports superstars he paints
family members and friends, vivid memoirs of his past, and present
day situations. Yates received his BFA from Missouri State
University and his MFA from the University of Colorado
Boulder.
In this episode, Mikey and I talk
about how he got involved in the arts, his practice and what's
influenced him throughout his professional art career.
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