7-layer screenprint on Arches 88, 21.5 in x 21.75 inEdition of 55 + 5 artist proofs, 3 printer’s proofs, 3 publisher’s proofs, Produced with Print Fellow Natalie Woodlock

"The non-venomous milk snake has always been strikingly beautiful and vibrantly hypnotic to my eyes. Tragically, they are often killed by those that misidentify them for their equally beautiful yet highly-venomous reptilian relatives, the coral snake. The truth is, they are both completely harmless when simply left alone at peace. I think about this notion a lot." — Michael Hambouz

Previous Wassaic Project Artist in Residence and exhibition artist, Michael Hambouz (b. Niles, Michigan, 1977) is a multidisciplinary artist, multi-instrumentalist musician, and independent curator based in Brooklyn, NY. Hambouz creates chromaesthesia-influenced works – experiments in dimension and color made under the guidance of music – to process bouts of loss and reflections on life in the rural Midwest, New York City, and in the cybersphere as a first-generation Palestinian-American. Experimenting freely with mediums, he encourages unexpected results and mutations in compositional form to bloom in the studio, resulting in conceptually abstracted paintings and prints, intricate layered paper cut outs, sculpture, drawings and animations.

Solo/two-person exhibitions include Elijah Wheat Showroom (Newburgh, NY) Spring/Break Art Show (NYC), Neighbors (NYC), chashama (NYC), Kayrock (NYC), Troutbeck (Amenia, NY), The Krasl Art Center (St. Joseph, MI), 3S Artspace (Portsmouth, NH), Future Fairs with Talia Levitt (NYC), Brooklyn Academy of Music with Michael O’Shea (NYC), and a 20-year survey exhibition at Antioch College (Yellow Springs, OH) in 2018.  His art and curatorial work have been featured in Artnet News, The New York Times, Hyperallergic, and Vice.