{"id":47799,"date":"2022-01-29T12:00:16","date_gmt":"2022-01-29T17:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/?p=47799"},"modified":"2022-01-28T22:25:51","modified_gmt":"2022-01-29T03:25:51","slug":"cover-artist-michael-filonow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/arts\/cover-artist-michael-filonow\/","title":{"rendered":"Cover Artist: Michael Filonow"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_47802\" style=\"width: 1210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-47802\" class=\"size-full wp-image-47802\" src=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Cover-Artist-Trio.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"452\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Cover-Artist-Trio.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Cover-Artist-Trio-300x113.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Cover-Artist-Trio-1024x386.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Cover-Artist-Trio-768x289.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Cover-Artist-Trio-810x305.jpg 810w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Cover-Artist-Trio-1140x429.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-47802\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(From left) Kaleidoscope 20; Kaleidoscope 10; Kaleidoscope 3; Michael Filonow, artist<\/p><\/div>\n<p>By Gina Malone<\/p>\n<p>Photographer Michael Filonow stood in front of the camera before he began working behind it to create high-quality photographs of his own. \u201cI had started a modeling career to the dismay of my parents,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_47804\" style=\"width: 260px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-47804\" class=\"wp-image-47804\" src=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Cover-Artist_-Michael-Filonow-Michael-Filonow-artist.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"354\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Cover-Artist_-Michael-Filonow-Michael-Filonow-artist.jpg 1130w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Cover-Artist_-Michael-Filonow-Michael-Filonow-artist-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Cover-Artist_-Michael-Filonow-Michael-Filonow-artist-723x1024.jpg 723w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Cover-Artist_-Michael-Filonow-Michael-Filonow-artist-768x1087.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Cover-Artist_-Michael-Filonow-Michael-Filonow-artist-1085x1536.jpg 1085w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Cover-Artist_-Michael-Filonow-Michael-Filonow-artist-810x1147.jpg 810w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-47804\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Filonow, artist<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Although he displayed an early interest in art, he studied engineering before turning to modeling, which took him around the world. \u201cI traveled through Europe for many years learning photography and eventually switching sides of the camera to become a photographer,\u201d he says. \u201cWhile working as a fashion photographer, I loved color and form and tried to replicate those themes in my images.\u201d Jobs took him to beauty spots that included Peru\u2019s Sacred Valley, Patagonia in Chile and, closer to home, Brevard\u2019s Pisgah Forest. \u201cIn all these places, there was something special,\u201d Filonow says, \u201cwhether it be the surroundings or the culture itself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With the advent of digital photography, Filonow began documenting his trips and using his camera to experiment. \u201cUp to that time if you shot film, it cost money for film and processing, making photography a bit costly,\u201d he says. \u201cThis new digital medium allowed me to expand my horizons.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His first foray into fine art included photographs for his Macro Botanical series. \u201cI had always loved the diversity of colors and forms that nature shows us in flowers,\u201d says Filonow. \u201cI wanted to take a different approach and shoot images that didn\u2019t look like traditional flowers.\u201d He employed a double extender on his camera lens that allowed him to come within an inch of the subject while still being able to focus. \u201cThe results were beautiful,\u201d he says. \u201cThe images were distorted and surreal.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_47801\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-47801\" class=\"wp-image-47801\" src=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Cover-Artist-Feb22-Cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"301\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-47801\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kaleidoscope 16. Michael Filonow, artist<\/p><\/div>\n<p>These days, many subjects for series suggest themselves to Filonow\u2014from random images in a magazine to something he sees on TV. Being a visual person and having impeccable memory for places and people helps, too. \u201cHowever, sometimes creating can also be an accident,\u201d says Filonow. An example is his Reflection series. \u201cI had gone out to shoot some beautiful, classic landscapes in Pisgah Forest,\u201d he says. \u201cAfter shooting for a while, I noticed leaves in the water obscuring the tree line reflection. I decided to take a picture of only the reflection and flip it 180 degrees.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He was amazed when he looked at the images on the camera and found a depiction of landscape he had never seen before. \u201cSometimes you go into a project thinking things will go one way and they go in a totally different direction,\u201d he adds.<\/p>\n<p><em>Kaleidoscope<\/em>, his most recent series, combines botanicals and betta fish. He used Photoshop to manipulate the images so that they merged into one. \u201cSometimes I would leave them for several days and then come back to them to see if it made sense,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_47803\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-47803\" class=\"wp-image-47803\" src=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Cover-Artist_-Michael-Filonow-Kaleidoscope-19.-Michael-Filonow-artist-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Cover-Artist_-Michael-Filonow-Kaleidoscope-19.-Michael-Filonow-artist-copy.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Cover-Artist_-Michael-Filonow-Kaleidoscope-19.-Michael-Filonow-artist-copy-277x300.jpg 277w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Cover-Artist_-Michael-Filonow-Kaleidoscope-19.-Michael-Filonow-artist-copy-946x1024.jpg 946w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Cover-Artist_-Michael-Filonow-Kaleidoscope-19.-Michael-Filonow-artist-copy-768x831.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Cover-Artist_-Michael-Filonow-Kaleidoscope-19.-Michael-Filonow-artist-copy-810x877.jpg 810w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Cover-Artist_-Michael-Filonow-Kaleidoscope-19.-Michael-Filonow-artist-copy-1140x1234.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-47803\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kaleidoscope 19. Michael Filonow, artist<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Though he lives and works in upstate New York, new acrylic prints from <em>Kaleidoscope<\/em> may be found at Mars Landing Galleries in Mars Hill. When he began looking for galleries in which to exhibit his work, Filonow remembered the Asheville area from his days shooting for Belk department store and knew that it was an \u201cup-and-coming art destination.\u201d Mars Landing\u2019s founder and director Miryam Rojas has known Filonow for many years. \u201cWhen I saw the work he was recently doing with his own personal photography, I was mesmerized,\u201d Rojas says. \u201cHe has a profoundly keen and tasteful eye for composition and together with his use of color photography creates these graceful yet invigorating images.\u201d His large works, Rojas adds, are particularly popular with gallery visitors.<\/p>\n<p>As with many people these days, Filonow says the pandemic has given him time to reflect and slow down a bit. \u201cIt has given me time to experiment,\u201d he adds, \u201cwhich is the best way to grow. I am trying to show beauty and color in the world around us from a different perspective.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>To learn more, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/MPFGallery.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MPFGallery.com<\/a> or Instagram @mpf_gallery. Find Michael Filonow\u2019s work at <a href=\"http:\/\/MarsLandingGalleries.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MarsLandingGalleries.com<\/a>, located at 37 Library Street, in Mars Hill. Hours are Wednesday through Saturday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., or by appointment.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Kaleidoscope,&#8221; artist Michael Filonow&#8217;s most recent series, combines botanicals and betta fish. 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