Michael Markowsky is a Canadian artist and writer whose visual art practice combines painting and performance. Typically he creates artwork while travelling through the landscape, such as in/on moving cars, trains, boats, dog sleighs, and most recently while walking the pilgrimage route known as the “Camino de Santiago” in Spain.In 2013, Markowsky produced 100 landscape drawings while flying faster than the speed of sound in a CF-18 “Hornet” fighter jet plane, as part of the official Canadian ‘War Artist’ program. In 2012, he painted landscapes ‘en plein air’ at the North Pole. His most recent projects are the subject of a 25-minute documentary short film by award-winning filmmaker Mike Peterson.Markowsky attended the Alberta College of Art in Calgary, Cooper Union in New York City and The Royal College of Art in London, England. He received his MFA from Art Center in Los Angeles, California (2002), and has taught drawing at Emily Carr University of Art in Vancouver. He has toured across Canada twice as part of the indie-rock band “Brasstronaut,” projecting live painting and animations on giant screens above the stage.www.michaelmarkowsky.comSpecialties: Video and film production, video editing, graphic design, page layout, web design, animation, sound recording and editing, oil painting, drawing and illustration.
Listed skills include Art, Illustration, Fine Art, Graphic Design, and 25 others.