About Michael Hurson

  • Biography

    A modernist, innovative painter and sculptor whose styles ranged from Cubism to Pop Art, Michael Hurson was born in Youngstown, Ohio and beginning in the late 1960s, became a part of the New York art scene. His longtime dealer was Paula Cooper, and his first one-person exhibition in New York was in 1974 at the Museum of Modern Art. Although he was more associated with painting, his MOMA entries were 'Projects', "seven meticulously detailed, balsa-wood models of modern interiors. Placed at eye level throughout the gallery, the works were like miniature stage sets for plays waiting to take place."

    Eight years later, at the Public Theatre in New York, he created "a sort of immobile puppet show, a g...

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