Portraits

Enduring themes in Mike Cockrill’s work have developed over several decades and carry through several bodies of distinct work. After first exhibiting controversial figurative work in the 1980s, Cockrill is now recognized as “one of the most interesting representatives of the contemporary American pictorial wave” (Savorelli, Contemporary Magazine, Issue 55).Following classical training at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, he moved to Brooklyn, New York in 1979. He first gained notoriety in the early 1980s with collaborator Judge Hughes.