Micah Wesley

Inspired always by the future and how it passes me, sorting through fragments of cultures, emotions and histories. I am quite certain the apocalypse happened.

In the west of the Iron Galaxy, we find marooned cyborgs on planets that have never known darkness. Deer women and android coyotes stalk the barren wastes conjuring spells for the order of the Sisters of Mercy. Obsessed with electronic music, Replicants and Techno Townies hold visions only for the future. Atomic powered Uncles/Aunts are cowboys/cowgirls and warriors putting out the vibes. Fury Road seeks retribution or perhaps a thrill kill cult. Gems from the Equinox reinforce dreams and realities of the simulation.

Born and raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico, he received his Master of Fine Arts in painting from the University of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma and his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Growing up, Micah looked at paintings of Native American figures in space, floating flat against cool colors encased in an outline of color, with depictions of celebration, ritual and tragedy. The imagery was referred to as Bacone, Dorothy Dunn, and The Kiowa Six. Micah’s father, Tillier Wesley Jr., painted in this tradition, a modernist approach he and other contemporaries called “Traditional”.

As a child he watched Mad Max the Road Warrior and fell in love with its context of survival, reassembled cars, leather, arrows and brutality. Micah is inspired by what he calls The Great Western Myth, science fiction/fantasy, synthesizers, cultures, emotions and modern art.

– MICAH WESLEY
Muskoke Creek Nation / Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma
Micah currently resides in Oklahoma.