If you were told to make a picture involving a fish, a boat prop, and a beach ball, how many ways could you fit them together? What if we threw in a happy face, Mickey Mouse, and the Virgin of Guadalupe? Add to that a porcupine, a few skulls, some cats, no-legged birds, and a devil girl tattoo, and you’ll find yourself in the iconographic realm of Verdi-based artist, Michael Sarich.
Sarich rose to prominence in the Northern Nevada art community after he moved here to become a professor at the University of Nevada, Reno in 1989, and was honored with a career retrospective at the Nevada Museum of Art in 2008. Now Stremmel Gallery, which has long represented the artist, presents what owner Turkey Stremmel describes as a “slight retrospective” which includes some of the artist’s latest work. To read more from Reno News & Review’s Stephen Cummings, click here.