About This Collection:

"From The Road"
My work focuses on vernacular buildings, simultaneously ubiquitous but also inextricably tied to regional identity and the places we call home. These works were made along I-81 and the route from SC to NH, up the Shenandoah Valley, rust belt of Eastern Pennsylvania, the Hudson River into Vermont and New Hampshire—flashbulb paintings, remembered colors, moments from my life in New England and a recent move South. The series captures the fleeting notion of home and place taken from the blurred vantage point of a car window on 70-mph highway and familiar backroads

Mike Howat | Greenville, South Carolina

View From Green Mountain Backroads No. 1

Regular price $ 350.00
Unit price
per 
original art is always one of a kind

Medium: Acrylic on paper

Dimensions:
Piece: 11" x 8"
Framed to 18" x 14"

Framed, ready to hang

Shipping calculated at checkout.

Mike Howat
Greenville, South Carolina

See all available work here.

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:

"From The Road"
My work focuses on vernacular buildings, simultaneously ubiquitous but also inextricably tied to regional identity and the places we call home. These works were made along I-81 and the route from SC to NH, up the Shenandoah Valley, rust belt of Eastern Pennsylvania, the Hudson River into Vermont and New Hampshire—flashbulb paintings, remembered colors, moments from my life in New England and a recent move South. The series captures the fleeting notion of home and place taken from the blurred vantage point of a car window on 70-mph highway and familiar backroads