Michael David Mayo
(b. 1965, Encino CA)
Working in oil , Mayo develops large-scale works over extended periods of excavation and revision. Each canvas is resolved once and remains fixed in its final state.
Practice
Mayo works in layers. Some works develop quickly. Others remain in process for months. The return to a canvas is not to complete it, but to test its integrity. When resolved, it is not revisited.
Discipline
Through his framework of Quantum Realism, Mayo examines unseen structural forces — the tension between dualities, movement within stillness, and permanence within flux.
The work does not illustrate narrative.
It exists as object.
The Process
Each painting undergoes sustained revision.
Decisions accumulate.
When the work reaches structural coherence, it is concluded.
No further intervention occurs.