Michael Wolf "Nocturne"
Michael Wolf "Nocturne" 2024
Wood, Steel Mesh, 12K White Gold Leaf, Glass Tesserae
Dimensions: 44 x 18 x 5 inches
Unique
Signed on Verso
Michael Wolf is a New York City–based artist whose practice spans sculpture, installation, and drawing. His work explores the human condition through metaphor, using architectural and geometric forms to reflect the physical and psychological need for shelter. Working primarily with wood, gold leaf, metal, and stone, Wolf creates contemplative spaces that engage with history while evoking memory, place, and transformation.
Wolf’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including at Palazzo Reale and the Museo del Novecento in Milan following a project for The Bau Container of Contemporary Culture in Viareggio, Italy. His installations have been presented at the Orlando Museum of Art, American University Art Museum, Center for Contemporary Art, and during Miami Art Week. In 2022, he collaborated with the New York City Parks Department on a public installation on the Lower East Side, and his Deconstructed installation was presented during Upstate Art Weekend in 2025.
His solo exhibitions include Domicilium: A Place to Dwell at ATELIER Gallery, as well as exhibitions at the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, BrassWorks Gallery, the Sculptors Guild Gallery, and SPRING/BREAK Art Show. Wolf recently completed a fellowship and residency at the Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library focused on carved objects. His honors include two individual artist grants from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, as well as the Power of Art Award presented by Robert Rauschenberg.
“Nocturne explores the elusive territory between dream and recollection, where memories surface not as complete narratives but as fragments and sensations, suspended between presence and absence. A circular mosaic element suggests a portal or moon, while the steel mesh functions as a veil that both conceals and reveals. Like a dream fading upon waking, the mesh obscures certainty, allowing forms to shift and dissolve as the viewer moves around the work. The work invites contemplation of those dreamlike moments when past and present merge, and when remembered places, emotions, and experiences drift in and out of focus, lingering at the threshold of consciousness.” - Michael Wolf