Mika Michal Gavish

I am so excited to have this thoughtful review of my work by @artmobia . “Artmobia review : At first glance, the paintings of New York City-based multimedia artist Michal Gavish are pretty much what they appear to be and claim to do. A splattering of Color Sampling with its multitude of rainbow dyes on fabric look like the result of flowers and mops soaked in tints and paints, and splotched onto a bare surface. Or there’s the sheer Floating City where stains and pigments wash across transparent textiles and translucent layers while wafting in the breeze. They sample and float. That’s fine. Look closer, however, and study their surfaces. Suddenly, Gavish’s work has a more guttural, muscular, less ethereal feel to it all. This is a vibrant aesthetic taken from her day job in the sciences, physical chemistry and microscopy where multiple angular views of magnified neurons and cells become a new painterly medium, and “the vulnerability of our scientific perception of the brain” turns into a fresh framework. Now, a twiggy, spiny painting such as “Outline” and its acrylic and pigment on fabric design appears as a tangled central nervous system alive with electrical neurological responses and possibilities. Utilizing a mix of tools painterly and medical, Gavish’s specially-developed scientific color notations are designed to create “abstracted visual terrains,” while basing their designs on everything from emotional personal events to that which exists within each synaptic gap and shape. Painting and science: this is the best of all worlds.” 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🌸 pictures: Michal Gavish Outline. Created @khmessen Acrylic and pigment on fabric 30” x 25” Color Sampling created @khmessen Dyes on fabric 86” x 30” Floating City Dyes on fabric, size varies @michalgavish #artmobia Color Sampling Dyes on fabric Floating City Dyes on fabric, size varies @michalgavish #artmobia

I was looking and working at the #hippocampus for months. Where my short term memory is hiding and dissolving. With its mythological Sea Horse shape takes me back and forth from this spiral neurological landscape to zoology and back to its Greek name that means Sea Horse. #bioarte #sciartist #michalgavish #neuroart

I am excited to be one of the 300 local artists at the Tower Show at Gowanus Brooklyn. Thanks @shiratoren for inviting me! #bioarte #futurearchaeology #marinart #nycartists #sciartist

It has been over ten years since the last New York exhibition of the Chinese artist Zhang Huan, known for his edgy political performance pieces documented at the exhibition. What captured me on this visit was his ash paintings, which extended across the entire front hall of the gallery. It feels entirely appropriate that this social activist artist, who later turned to Buddhism, should exhibit these works in New York at such a tense moment. Ash, as a medium, touches on absolute destruction. It carries deep meaning in Buddhist practice, but these days it also pulls toward something harder to name: the daily accumulation of impure ash on the ground of cities being destroyed. The ash works are created at Zhang Huan’s large Shanghai studio as communal productions. Each painting is generated from dry incense remnants collected in nearby Buddhist temples. These particles are sifted into multiple grayscale hues by a community of assistants who paste them onto a linen support to build up the final image. Zhang Huan directs this process through plans, drawings, and photographs, but the making is carried out by the group. Writer: Michal Gavish @michalgavish Featured Show: Ash Paintings and Performances Featured Artist: Zhang Huan @zhanghuanstudio @pacegallery Featured Venue: 125 Newbury Gallery @125newbury 395 Broadway, New York On View through: April 11th, 2026, Tue – Sat, 10 am – 6 pm

I am so honored to have an interview with me published @scientific.inquirer . Link in bio

#brainart #bioart #neuroart #nycartist #michalgavish

#bioarte #brainart #nycartist #michalgavish #neuroart

I walked into the PPOW gallery the morning my friend Riki died. The 182-panel illustrated small drawings by New York artist John Kelly, which extend as an open graphic memoir around the gallery, captured me instantly, letting me in on a personal journey of mortality, pain, and beauty. There was something generous in the way Kelly handed his notebook and shared the manuscript of his injury. It resonated with my thoughts of investigating and dwelling on mourning and mortality. Kelly constructs his narrative from multiple sets of self-portraits accompanied by text blocks and contemplative abstract schemes. These begin with his idealized grand moment of performance that spirals unexpectedly. In 2004, Kelly fell from a trapeze and broke his neck, interrupting his life and practice. Writer: Michal Gavish @michalgavish Featured Show: A FRIEND GAVE ME A BOOK Featured Artist: John Kelly @johnkelly.performance Featured Venue: PPOW Gallery @ppowgallery 392 Broadway, Tribeca, NYC On View until: February 21st, 2026 Tuesday – Saturday: 10:00 am – 6:00 pm. @johnkelly.performance

#bioarte #botanica #botanicalart #nycartist #nyartists

#bioarte #sciartist #michalgavish #nycartscene #nycartist