About This Collection:

"In the Neighborhood"
Artist statement: I'm interested in finding moments in the seemingly mundane, and explore how we leave our mark on the places we live. People are absent in my paintings, but their presence is implied. With light, urban landscape and vernacular architecture as subject, I create subtle, ambiguous narratives of everyday life.

Mike Howat | Greenville, South Carolina

Mid-afternoon

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Medium: Acrylic on panel

Dimensions: 8" x 10"

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Mike Howat
Greenville, South Carolina

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Mike Howat is a painter currently based in Metro Detroit. His work examines and depicts themes of urbanization, Americana, and collective memory, often through the lens of regional vernacular architecture. Buildings and built environments act as vessels in his paintings and sculptural works—conduits for exploring regional identity, personal history, and the evolution of place. Howat earned his B.F.A. from the New Hampshire Institute of Art and is currently an M.F.A. candidate at Cranbrook Academy of Art.

Howat has shown nationally, with recent exhibitions at Cove Street Arts (ME), Paradigm Gallery (PHL), Rochester Museum of Fine Arts (NH), Talon Gallery (PDX) and Carrie Secrist Gallery (CHI). His practice has been informed by residencies focusing on site-specific works including as the 2022 artist-in-residence at Gallery 263 in Cambridge, MA and as the 2026 artist-in-residence at Tiger Strikes Asteroid in Greenville, SC.

About This Collection:

"In the Neighborhood"
Artist statement: I'm interested in finding moments in the seemingly mundane, and explore how we leave our mark on the places we live. People are absent in my paintings, but their presence is implied. With light, urban landscape and vernacular architecture as subject, I create subtle, ambiguous narratives of everyday life.