michel dubouloz

With a background in architecture, the artist works within the abstract expressionist movement to represent the urban environment. Using reinforced polystyrene supports, heavy paint applications, and methods that emphasize verticality and conflict, the artist produces layered and complex compositions that speak to the city’s enigmatic depths and compositional precision. An avid bebop jazz pianist who regularly performs in group settings, the artist’s music practice informs the painting process, drawing connections between bebop’s motifs, tensions, and rhythms and the gestures of abstract painting. The resulting canvases serve as arenas of visual improvisation where color, form, and texture interact as dynamically as notes in a jazz solo.