HandHeld

Michael York Gilreath is an Independent, California native artist, showing and selling his work internationally. At a young age, Michael quickly learned that his right brain functions are significantly stronger than his left and was geared towards more of a creative outlet than a traditional curriculum. Having an upbringing with Brachial Plexus Palsy (a birth injury), learning difficulties and dyslexia Michael fueled his passion and time with his creativity and imagination. Working primarily with wood, airbrush, cel vinyl, inks and acrylics, his bright colors and dark intricate line work are heavily inspired by 90's skateboards, World of Warcraft, Medieval art, black metal, psychedelics, and soft vinyl kaiju toys. Constantly learning new techniques and mediums, Michael considers himself a 'forever student' who is eager to build on his creative foundations and his craft. His hunger for knowledge, determination, and passion to create new work has contributed to his success thus far and also helped reach his goals to create beautiful works of art with a twist of darkness. Michael believes a large amount of redbull, not taking himself too seriously, and constantly learning and trying new techniques is the key to success. Michael is currently working as a freelance artist based out of Giclée (pronounced "zhee-clay") is a neologism for the process of making fine art prints from a digital source using ink-jet printing. The word "giclée" is derived from the French language word "le gicleur" meaning "nozzle", or more specifically "gicler" meaning "to squirt, spurt, or spray". It was coined in 1991 by Jack Duganne, a printmaker working in the field, to represent any inkjet-based digital print used as fine art. The intent of that name was to distinguish commonly known industrial "Iris proofs" from the type of fine art prints artists were producing on those same types of printers. The name was originally applied to fine art prints created on Iris printers in a process invented in the early 1990s but has since come to mean any high quality ink-jet print and is often used in galleries and print shops to denote such prints.