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Follow on Google News | VARGA Gallery presents "MIKEY TEUTUL: UNLEASHED" on 11/11/11 in Woodstock, New YorkVARGA Gallery presents a solo exhibit of artist Mikey Teutul from "American Chopper" - the TV Reality Show on Discovery Channel. "Mikery Teutul: Unleashed" is the highlight of the year end exhibit at VARGA Gallery and runs through December 31, 2011.
By: VARGA Gallery The Teutul family have made "Orange County Choppers" and "Paul Junior Designs" household names and the choppers are coveted by a huge array of bikers, corporations and collectors. The show stages Mikey's emerging art career and offers an intimate view into the emotional substance of one artist's struggle. Mikey's medium is commercial-grade canned paint poured or splattered onto canvas and other surfaces. With no formal art training his work expresses a raw, unconstrained nature and belies his amiable TV persona. His foray into art blossomed out of aimlessness working at Orange County Choppers. American Chopper Producer Adam Moyer suggested he paint portraits of the cast and crew. "So I started painting everybody. I didn't think anyone would want to buy any of my art, I just wanted to paint. I really enjoyed it, and I found it therapeutic. If I don't concentrate my addictive behavior on something positive, it will definitely go to the negative. I don't make any bones about that." Teutul's struggles with addiction are known to his fans. "It's nice to express that on canvas, rather than abuse myself, like I used to," he adds. Mikey enjoys "being constructive, and not destructive" The exhibition includes a year end group show of artists represented by VARGA Gallery, seasonal holiday gift-giving small works, and Occupy Wall Street art, propaganda, performance and paraphernalia. VARGA Gallery represents the cutting edge of outsider art in the Hudson Valley and is pleased to have Mikey Teutul draw an ever growing circle of art lovers, enthusiasts and patrons to Woodstock from around the globe. VARGA Gallery was founded in Woodstock in June 2003 in by self-taught artist Christina Varga. The gallery features an evolving stable of self-taught, outsider, emerging and visionary artists from the Hudson Valley and beyond. Founder and self-taught artist Christina Varga's exhibition history includes the Kunsttiendaagse 10 Days of Art Festival in Bergen, North Holland; the 13th Mega Exhibit at the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore; the 2005/2006 Winter Exhibition at Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine in New York City; the Resurgence Magazine Conference on Earth & Religion at Bard College. For more information visit VARGA Gallery online at http://www.VARGAgallery.com/ End
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