Michael Roate
Artist Statement
Where business is based on ugly people and business is good.
Biography
I was born into a family not of the nuclear persuasion but more like a molecule. I mumbled as a child and now I am making up for lost time or it could be the fact I had eight sisters and already knew by age three anything I said I would be wrong. When I was old enough I wanted to move to another country like Austria, but I settled for the wild exotic and interesting country of Iowa.
It was in this strange land I earned a BA in graphic and visual arts. I learned of this strange new art of combining John Mcenroe ‘s insults into art of people he would possible yell at, you know like everyone. They called this new art form caricatures. This at times gave me the label as a Carnie, which I always felt strange about since I have never been addicted to black tar horine. I have been drawing turning innocent people in caricatures since 1996 and have yet to stop. I have over 1,000 satisfied customers.
Which some of those customers have been senators, KGGO, Grand View College, and many more. I am now taking my art larger works to really show off the flaws of the celebrities draw and paint.