Bio

Michael Stecky is a Toronto based artist with a multifaceted practice. Often using repurposed materials and labour-intensive craft he creates sculpture, paintings, videos, audio works and convergences of those media. Stecky has a strong interest in creating aesthetically compelling objects that have a conceptual aspect and that relate to art history.

Works

A Stranger On The Land - A Ghost Story Nunamuliaqtalisaq Inuk

  • 2012
  • Michael Stecky

The story of a man lost in the Arctic during a blizzard and his mysterious rescuer

A Stranger On The Land - A Ghost Story Nunamuliaqtalisaq Inuk

Golden Room

  • 2008
  • Michael Stecky

Golden Room is the third in a series of animated videos that use found materials to construct hallucinatory landscapes that are both visceral and uncanny.

Golden Room

Magical Thinking

  • 2005
  • Michael Stecky

Magical Thinking uses the format of an intermittently distorted and disorienting multi-screen television newscast as a setting to tell a perfomative story of alchemy, ritual, and transformation.

Magical Thinking

Bubble Canopy

  • 2002
  • Michael Stecky

'Bubble Canopy' is an atmospheric video shot entirely with a web cam using kitchen utensils, toys, other household objects. It shows a glimpse of a fantastical world seen through twin portals using imagery relating to the sea, and the mechanisms of travel. The music was also composed by Michael based on samples from easy listening orchestral records.

Bubble Canopy