Micah Shull

My paintings and drawings explore what happens to identity when the private self comes under pressure to become a public image.

Through figures, pattern, color, travel fragments, interiors, and repeated forms, I study how people are shaped by the environments that make them visible. A room can become a mask. A pose can become armor. A pattern can become a social code. Across a series, the figure may perform, resist, dissolve, or become more image-like.

My work moves between figuration and abstraction to examine the unstable space between who we are privately and how we appear to others.