Michael Newberry (artist)

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Self-portrait photograph of Michael Newberry, 2023. Michael Newberry Self Portrait 2023.jpg
Self-portrait photograph of Michael Newberry, 2023.

Michael Newberry (b. 1956) is an American neo-romantic figurative painter residing in Idyllwild, California. Influenced by French impressionism and Rembrandt. [1] . His major works are typically life-sized canvases. Newberry has exhibited in New York, Los Angeles, Santa Monica, Rome, Athens, and Brussels.[ citation needed ]

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Career

The Sculptor (1980), oil on linen, by Michael Newberry The Sculptor, 1980, oil on linen, 68x46" by Michael Newberry.jpg
The Sculptor (1980), oil on linen, by Michael Newberry

Newberry had a one person show at NOHO Gallery in 1983. Writing in the New York Tribune, art critic James Cooper described Newberry as "an artist on [the] verge of stating a theme" following his first solo exhibition at the NOHO Gallery. Cooper wrote that Newberry's realism was "unmarred by affectation or compromise with abstractionist considerations," and that while his paintings contained "the necessary ingredients ... to create a statement," their message "was not yet clear." [2] [ failed verification ]

Newberry exhibited work at the To Dendro Gallery in Rhodes in 1996. A review of the work in the local newspaper I Rodiaki (The Rhodian) stated that his work had "technical mastery and expressive power." [3] [ verification needed ] Another 1996 article in the same local publication described Newberry’s work as combining “strong draftsmanship” with “an unflinching sincerity, free of affectation or mysticism.” [4] [ verification needed ] A separate article by archaeologist and art historian Thodoris Archontopoulos in the same local newspaper described Newberry’s process—beginning with studies in charcoal and pastel before moving to oil—as marked by “discipline, clarity, and emotional strength.” [5] [ verification needed ]

In 2001, Michael Newberry published a paper “On Metaphysical Value-Judgments” in The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies [6] challenging Louis Torres and Michelle Marder Kamhi’s interpretation of Ayn Rand’s aesthetic theory in What Art Is: The Esthetic Theory of Ayn Rand. Kamhi and Torres replied in 2003, describing Newberry’s interpretation as “facile” and “lamentably all too common among Objectivists.” [7] [ verification needed ]

Newberry taught in the past[ when? ] at Otis/Parsons Institute in Los Angeles. [8] [ better source needed ]


References

  1. ↑ "Michael Newberry, Author of the Atlas Society". www.atlassociety.org. Retrieved 2025-09-18.
  2. ↑ Cooper, James (July 29, 1983). "Michael Newberry: An Artist on Verge of Stating a Theme." New York Tribune (Arts section).
  3. ↑ Μιαούλης, Αριστείδης (1996). "Η Έκθεση του Michael Newberry στο Δέντρο" [The Exhibition of Michael Newberry at To Dendro], I Rodiaki (The Rhodian), Ta Politistika (Arts & Culture section) (in Greek), Rhodes, June 1996.
  4. ↑ "Έκθεση Ζωγραφικής του Newberry" [Art Exhibition of Newberry], I Rodiaki (The Rhodian) (in Greek), Rhodes, June 22, 1996.
  5. ↑ Αρχοντόπουλος, Θοδωρής (1996). "Ο Michael Newberry εκθέτει στη Ρόδο, στο φιλόξενο χώρο του βιβλιοπωλείου Το Δέντρο" [Michael Newberry Exhibits in Rhodes, at the Welcoming Space of To Dendro Bookstore], I Rodiaki (The Rhodian) (in Greek), Rhodes, June 1996.
  6. ↑ Newberry, Michael. “On Metaphysical Value-Judgments.” The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies, vol. 2, no. 2, Spring 2001, pp. 331–346.
  7. ↑ Kamhi, Michelle Marder, and Louis Torres. “What ‘Rand’s Aesthetics’ Is, and Why It Matters.” The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies, vol. 5, no. 1, Fall 2003, pp. 1–64.
  8. ↑ "Satisfying the Soul: An Interview with Michael Newberry, The Atlas Society | Ayn Rand, Objectivism, Atlas Shrugged". www.atlassociety.org. Retrieved 2025-09-18.
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