{"id":806,"date":"2025-05-20T13:12:22","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T17:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaelvanwinkle.com\/?page_id=806"},"modified":"2025-08-26T14:01:47","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T18:01:47","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.michaelvanwinkle.com\/?page_id=806","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide has-media-on-the-right is-stacked-on-mobile has-small-font-size\" style=\"grid-template-columns:auto 35%\"><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-small-font-size\"><br>My artwork has always explored the potential for new experience within deeply familiar subjects such as still life, landscape and figure painting. The actions and events depicted in my work are similarly mundane; seeking to express the overlap between routine daily experience and life\u2019s most unsettling moments. The spaces within the work are physical and psychological. They contain illusion and atmosphere while being self consciously places of painted material. Through nurturing these dualities, I explore the inherent connection between the physical world and our internal states as we cross the boundary between disparate sensations, identities and modes of being. The figures in my paintings are meditations on this shifting relationship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-small-font-size\"><strong>Email:<\/strong>  michaelAvanwinkle@gmail.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Follow my work on Instagram<\/strong> @michaelavanwinkle<\/p>\n<\/div><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"893\" data-attachment-id=\"912\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/www.michaelvanwinkle.com\/?attachment_id=912\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.michaelvanwinkle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Studio-Portrait-2025-Hi-Sat-scaled.jpg?fit=1836%2C2560\" data-orig-size=\"1836,2560\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;1.6&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 13 mini&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1756050197&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;5.1&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;125&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0088495575221239&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Studio Portrait 2025 Hi Sat\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.michaelvanwinkle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Studio-Portrait-2025-Hi-Sat-scaled.jpg?fit=287%2C400\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.michaelvanwinkle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Studio-Portrait-2025-Hi-Sat-scaled.jpg?fit=640%2C893\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.michaelvanwinkle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Studio-Portrait-2025-Hi-Sat.jpg?resize=640%2C893\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-912 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.michaelvanwinkle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Studio-Portrait-2025-Hi-Sat-scaled.jpg?resize=734%2C1024 734w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.michaelvanwinkle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Studio-Portrait-2025-Hi-Sat-scaled.jpg?resize=287%2C400 287w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.michaelvanwinkle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Studio-Portrait-2025-Hi-Sat-scaled.jpg?resize=201%2C280 201w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.michaelvanwinkle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Studio-Portrait-2025-Hi-Sat-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C1071 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.michaelvanwinkle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Studio-Portrait-2025-Hi-Sat-scaled.jpg?resize=1101%2C1536 1101w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.michaelvanwinkle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Studio-Portrait-2025-Hi-Sat-scaled.jpg?resize=1468%2C2048 1468w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.michaelvanwinkle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Studio-Portrait-2025-Hi-Sat-scaled.jpg?resize=1568%2C2187 1568w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.michaelvanwinkle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Studio-Portrait-2025-Hi-Sat-scaled.jpg?w=1836 1836w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.michaelvanwinkle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Studio-Portrait-2025-Hi-Sat-scaled.jpg?w=1280 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My artwork has always explored the potential for new experience within deeply familiar subjects such as still life, landscape and figure painting. The actions and events depicted in my work are similarly mundane; seeking to express the overlap between routine daily experience and life\u2019s most unsettling moments. The spaces within the work are physical and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelvanwinkle.com\/?page_id=806\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;About&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-806","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelvanwinkle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelvanwinkle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelvanwinkle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelvanwinkle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelvanwinkle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=806"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelvanwinkle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":913,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelvanwinkle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/806\/revisions\/913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelvanwinkle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}