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Mike Bayne

Mike Bayne (b. 1977 Ottawa, Canada) creates miniature Photorealist paintings of overlooked North American scenes, frequently of his childhood town. Capturing every detail from his working photographs, he replicates his subject not only in terms of imagery, but often also in scale, by mimicking the size of actual commercially printed photographs. Bayne’s highly detailed brushwork captures imagery from the everyday and the banal. His depictions of architecture and vehicles render environments locked in a moment of time, devoid of people and movement. Deliberately lacking expressive content, his head-on compositions often feature broad swathes of color in seemingly flattened geometric forms. Visually, his works are at once abruptly realistic, and yet purposefully inorganic.

He received his MFA from Concordia University and has participated in many group shows across the U.S. and Canada. His work is in the collection of the National Gallery of Canada, the Art Gallery of Ontario, and the Nerman Museum to name a few. Bayne was also the recipient of the Kingston Prize for Portraiture in 2011.

Featured Works

Exhibitions
— Mike Bayne

Previous Exhibitions

painting by Bertrand Meniel

Fall Selections

12 October — 4 November, 2023

Art Miami 2021

Booth AM406

30 November — 5 December, 2021

CROPPED-IMAGE-Arnot Art Museum-Exterior

High Fidelity: Anthony Brunelli & the Digital Age Photorealists

14 February — 30 August, 2020

4WD - Mike Bayne

Mike Bayne

4 April — 27 April, 2019

Food for Thought

A Selection of Small Works Curated by Susan Meisel

28 February — 30 March, 2019

Art Miami 2018 Booth

Art Miami 2018

4 December — 9 December, 2018

Recent Press
— Mike Bayne

Mike Bayne
by Nicole Armour
Square 2 Magazine, 01/01/2011

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