{"title":"Michael Kagan | Screenprints \u0026 Editions","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" data-sourcepos=\"9:1-9:738;213-950\"\u003eMichael Kagan was born in Virginia Beach in 1980 and is now based in Brooklyn, where his oil paintings — built from large, deliberate brushstrokes that read as abstraction up close and resolve into legible figures only as the viewer steps back — have made him one of the most distinctive chroniclers of human endeavour working in contemporary American art. His subjects run from mountaineers and Formula 1 drivers to fighter pilots and astronauts, the men and machines of exploration rendered in a thick, gestural language that owes as much to Abstract Expressionism as to figurative painting. His work is held in collections including the Smithsonian Institution, the Hall Art Collection, and Fidelity Investments' corporate collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" data-sourcepos=\"11:1-11:524;952-1475\"\u003eKagan's astronaut series — the body of work for which he is best known — returns obsessively to the specific visual experience of space: helmet visors, suit details, the reflected world within a curved surface, the lone figure dwarfed by the void around it. These are paintings about the heroism of the very small gesture — one person, one suit, one decision — made under conditions of complete isolation. The scale and the brushwork conspire to make the figure feel both monumentally significant and impossibly vulnerable.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" data-sourcepos=\"13:1-13:511;1477-1987\"\u003eHis print output is produced through long-standing partnerships with specialist studios, most notably Brand X Editions in New York, and translates the layered, gestural quality of his painting into richly built-up colour separations rather than clean, graphic reproductions. Each edition is signed by the artist, and edition sizes are kept deliberately small, meaning his prints offer one of the more accessible entry points to a painter whose originals are held in institutional collections on two continents.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" data-sourcepos=\"15:1-15:270;1989-2258\"\u003eThe work available through Creed Gallery is Moonwalker (2024), a screenprint in colours on Magnani Incisioni paper produced with Brand X Editions, from a signed edition of 150. Available through Creed Gallery, Ascot, for collectors across Berkshire, Surrey, and London.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"michael-kagan-moonwalker","title":"Michael Kagan | Moonwalker","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMichael Kagan (b. 1980) — Moonwalker\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMichael Kagan was born in Virginia Beach in 1980 and is now based in Brooklyn, where his oil paintings — built from large, deliberate brushstrokes — have made him one of the more distinctive chroniclers of human exploration working today, held in collections including the Smithsonian.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMoonwalker, released in 2024 with the New York printmaking studio Brand X Editions, draws on NASA’s Apollo missions: a suited astronaut on the lunar surface, gazing toward a mission mate reflected in the curve of his helmet visor.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAvailable through Creed Gallery, Ascot, for collectors across Berkshire, Surrey, and London.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eScreenprint in colours on Magnani Incisioni paper, 2024\u003cbr\u003e61 × 61 cm (24 × 24 in)\u003cbr\u003eSigned by the artist\u003cbr\u003eEdition of 150\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Michael Kagan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56215814963540,"sku":null,"price":995.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0833\/0418\/6196\/files\/michael-kagan-moonwalker.jpg?v=1782293503"}],"url":"https:\/\/creedgallery.com\/ar\/collections\/michael-kagan.oembed","provider":"Creed Gallery","version":"1.0","type":"link"}