Michael Childress

Michael Childress' modular canvases consist of rectangular units that are spaced and stacked vertically in combinations of registers, exploring languages of minimalism and geometric abstraction as ways to embody and delineate space. Michael Childress (b. 1987, MA) has had solo exhibitions at HESSE FLATOW, New York, NY; New Release, New York, NY; New Image Art, Los Angeles, CA; Galerie Julien Cadet, Paris, France; Lane Meyer Projects, Denver, CO; and Cuevas Tilleard, New York, and been included in group exhibitions at Pt. 2 Gallery, Oakland, CA; Marvin Gardens, New York, NY; Future Gallery, Berlin, Germany; HESSE FLATOW, New York, NY; Half Gallery, New York, NY; Pray For This Gallery, New York, NY; False Flag, New York, NY; Radiator Arts, New York, NY; among others. He is a recipient of the Leslie-Lohman Museum Queer Artists Fellowship and has completed a residency at AS220 (Providence, RI). Childress earned a BFA from the University of Massachusetts in 2009. He lives and works in Florence, Massachusetts.