Michel Tabori

Michel Tabori was born in Paris in 1956 and grew up in New York. He spent the last forty years working as an award-winning director, producer and cinematographer. Tabori began working as a visual artist a little over ten years ago, and is currently based in Los Angeles.

Tabori’s paintings depict symmetric transformations of fast moving action, landscapes and intimate portraits as seen and experienced both directly and through reflections of the subject’s surroundings through the use of paints, pigments, mixed media and polymer resin. To start, pigment is applied to flat canvas mounted on panel and then again on layers of polymer resin, which throw tints and shadows onto the layers below them as more resin is added. The resin’s optical qualities develop a depth of field that intensifies the work. This technique also magnifies colors otherwise impossible to achieve by paint on flat canvas alone.

Submitted by Caldwell Snyder Gallery