Mike Glier (Born 1953) American, Print 'Men at Home: Grooming'. Men at Home series. "Grooming". Signed in lower right. 14/60 in lower left. Depicting a naked man standing in a bathroom looking in the mirror, blow drying his hair. Proceeds from this sale will benefit students at the Ringling College of Art & Design.

Overall Size: 39 x 29 in. 

Sight Size: 32 x 22 in. 

#8155 . 

Born in Kentucky, Mike Glier studied psychology and art at Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts before attending the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. An advisee of Robert Morris, Glier received an MA from Hunter College. His master’s thesis, “The 1979 Dime Store Figurine” appeared in Artforum Magazine. In the late 70’s and 80’s, Mike was an active member of Collaborative Projects, participating in the Time Square Show and organizing Art Direct, a mail order catalog of art by Colab artists. Mike Glier draws and paints to explore topics of common interest. He also teaches, which he considers a happy, satisfying, and dematerialized part of his creative output. Masculine identity, desire, and violence informed much of his early work. For the last two decades, however, he has focused on the human relationship with land. “My landscape projects are propelled by a number of things, including the love of paint and abstraction, but most importantly, by a desire to do my part to help make the changes in philosophy that are required if humanity is to create a sustainable future.  By studying the land and responding to it freshly, I hope to demonstrate attachment, respect and engagement.  And if the paintings are good enough, they will find their way into public life to do their job of representing the joy of living in the world and the wonder of perceiving it, and if they succeed at this, to evoke the will to create balance within it.”