Reviews

• What do you see?
  — Article from Imagination Troubador #27
  "This article features twelve people's responses to a painting by Misha Bittleston. The perceptions they describe are astonishingly different". Full Text...

• Breaking Down the Barriers
  — by Bernadette Wolff
  "With intoxicating rhythm he creates spectacular works that bear all the intensity of a primal scream, the intrigue of a chance encounter, and the white fury of his most brazen kiss". Full Text...

• In Love 11/25/04
  — by Natalie Felix
  Misha Bittleston's piece "Sehnsucht Kunstlicher Menschen" inspired me to write this. May it do the same for you.
  "...memories of the forest, worlds afar. flowers blooming above her. trees breathing... standing in the middle of the world. galaxy. universe. edge of the shore...". Full Text...

• ‘An Untitled Radioactive Dream’ or ‘Misha Bittleston 2004:
  The Narrative of Eternity’
  — by Michael O'Regan
  "The Ramada black and whites are the work of a restless creator ruthlessly tearing invention from his insides. They are proof that searching is creating, and as the works progress, they reveal that creating is also searching. For Bittleston, the series seems to lay down the fertile foundation for what is to come, with the theme of the creator-who-is-also-a-destroyer reverberating throughout". Full Text...

• A Resounding Plea: The Artwork of Misha Bittleston
  — by Kellan McNally
  "It is often ambiguity that resonates with the best-heard voice, and it is often the strongest artists that with vagueness accomplish the most. When granted the privilege of free interpretation the audience builds a personal connection with a piece, in effect allowing the artist's message to grow and mature". Full Text...

• Weaving Illusion Into Reality
  — by Bernadette Wolff
  "His canvas will rush in and awe you, incite you, excite you, take you back into your inner self, where you will learn to appreciate heaven, hell, and all points in between with the spontaneity of an exuberant child and the edification of a scholar". Full Text...

• Two Reviews: Guilt (A reaction to ‘Make Me Pay’); New Brunswick 1998
  — by Michael O'Regan
  "The first time I viewed this piece I got the immediate post-apocalyptic impression that the world had somehow met its destined demise and those creatures (un)lucky enough to survive had constructed the towering structure radiating the cycle of life back unto the planet, starting, of course, in New Brunswick". Full Text...

• The Gray Area
  — by Nancy Callahan
  "Because this indefinable gray substance straddles states of matter, Bittleston's piece defies easy elucidation. But this dream-like piece does embody an intriguing duality". Full Text...

• The Wonderful World of Misha Bittleston
  — by Christopher Kendalls
  "Misha combines dark cynicism and social commentary with fun abstractions of mundane subject matter. There is something here for everyone, including the usual jump into existentialism and other spiritual matter". Full Text...

• Trains of Thought, the Play of Meaning
  — by Heather Otrando
  "For a literarily-minded person like myself, art like this brings the same pleasure as writing like Gertrude Stein's does: in Stein's writing, the lack of punctuation gives words a different valence, lets meaning flow like water, in a variety of paths and into a variety of shapes". Full Text...

• Contemporary Tachism: The Black and White Paintings of Misha Bittleston
  — by Alfred Jan
  "Bittleston prefers black pigment, because of its purity and lack of different chromatic emotional and symbolic baggage. He prefers the viewer experience black, white, and infinite shades of grey". Full Text...