The Las Vegas Art Museum is pleased to present More: Michael Reafsnyder, Painting and Sculpture 2002-2005 from October 1 - December 31, 2005. This comprehensive survey of the works created by California artist Michael Reafsnyder since 2002 constitutes the first installment of LVAM’s newly created Contemporaries Series, an ongoing series of exhibitions dedicated to presenting works by emerging and internationally recognized contemporary artists. This will be the artist’s first solo museum exhibition, and his Las Vegas debut.

Reafsnyder is known for brilliantly colored abstract paintings executed in oils or acrylics, in an exuberant painterly style. The artist painted in oils from 1996 through 2004. These works generally feature frenetic, densely filled compositions executed with a combination of thick brush strokes and skeins of paint squeezed directly from the tube, with some passages flattened with a squeegee. They usually include primitive-style representations of “smiley face” extraterrestrial creatures, and occasionally scribbled words, which are formed by skeins of paint or scratched into the painted surface.