Michael Summers Art for Sale at Auction

Michael Summers was born in Los Angeles sometime during the Carter administration. He grew up in Joshua Tree, California surrounded by a cavalcade of eccentric art-commune inhabiting social dropouts, idealistic dreamers, and rural American free thinkers. Art and creativity surrounded Michael from an early age and has been a pivotal part of his identity throughout his life. Summers left home in his early twenties and after drifting from Virginia, to Missouri, then Texas, he returned to San Diego, California where he currently lives and works.

The meticulously crafted paintings of Michael Summers are firmly rooted in contemporary west coast surrealism with a strong pop sensibility. He uses his Pop Surrealist style as a tool to reflect his inner vision: creating the impossible and more importantly, making the impossible seem plausible. The artist creates imaginary characters - often alluding to mythical archetypes - in acrylic paint with a keen hyper-attentiveness. His unorthodox use of intense saturation and arbitrary, multi-chromatic hues encourages the viewer to look a little closer, a little longer. The recognizable subjects of animals, automatons, and humans suddenly become magical and extraordinary. Yet, they somehow still retain the nostalgia of a child-hood memory that was once long forgotten.

Commissioned by the City of Carlsbad in 2013 and Harrah's Resorts SoCal in 2014 to create large-scale murals that are seen by thousands daily, Michael Summers grows in ever-increasing popularity. He has had the privilege to be chosen as the Featured Artist for the San Diego Food & Wine Festival (2011), Mission Federal ArtWalk San Diego (2013 and 2017), and the La Jolla Festival of the Arts (2015). He was chosen as one of the Featured Mural Artists at Lightning in a Bottle (2017) and Life is Beautiful Las Vegas (2017), marking his debut at each of these prominent festivals. The rising exposure of Michael Summers’ work has made him highly sought after by collectors all over the world.