Michael Von Helms

B Shawn Cox (b.1972 Lubbock, Texas) is an Austin-based multimedia artist whose diverse work has been exhibited and collected throughout the United States in both private and corporate collections. He...

Michael von Helms has spoken definitively about his career-long compulsion to inhabit the realm of Abstract Expressionism. The artist’s chosen style of abstraction satisfies two vital imperatives: pictorial resolution of form on canvas and emotional integration. According to von Helms, he “rearranges and reconfigures,” abandons and returns, to re-work color, line and form, while “basically painting my emotions.” The struggle is complete when painterly resolution coheres with self-realization. Von Helms perceives this creative process as profoundly significant, he has called the desired integration “salvation.”