Michael Bever

Michael Bever is a Chicago based artist and a lover of colour, harnessing and manipulating hues in the most creative applications on canvas. The shelter in place orders of the 2020 pandemic reignited Michael’s passion for painting. After a 20+ year hiatus, he returned to an easel, picked up a paintbrush, and began to create. During his time serving as an Army Ranger, Michael learned to always push the limits past the comfort zone. As the sixth stanza of the Ranger Creed says “ Readily will I display the instestinal fortitude required to fight on to the Ranger objective and complete the mission though I am the lone survivor. Michael fights through the difficulties that each piece presents him and refuses to stop it until it is complete.”The military also helped expand his attention to detail. You see this in his work as the contrast of shadow verses light, color against color. He is always learning, always evolving which you will notice in the progression of his works, past, present, and future.