Blending influences of lost carnivals, Nordic mythology and hazy nostalgia, Mike Shine’s eerie yet often light-hearted art has been included in exhibitions with SFMOMA, Laguna Art Museum and The Museum of Craft and Folk Art. His mixed media pieces are typically composed of house paint on found objects like driftwood, buoys, carnival bottles and ephemera. The artist’s sinister characters are made ironically inviting to the viewer with mechanized interactive components that recall classic carnival attractions. Shine orchestrated over 200 new pieces housed in an all encompassing installation for the exhibition: Flotsam’s Wonder World.

The art “opera” is based on the carnival ringleader, Flotsam, who Shine considers to be his personal version of Mephistopheles. The artist cites dark, enigmatic figures such as Stanley Kubrick, Friedrich Nietzsche and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe as his inspiration for the exhibition. Mike Shine is a self-taught artist living and working in Bolinas, California. He has exhibited in San Francisco, LA, Laguna Beach, Copenhagen, and Montreal.

The artist’s work has been featured in Juxtapoz Magazine, Hi-Fructose Magazine, SF Chronicle, Readymade, ArtLtd. and Spread Art/Culture Magazine. The artist hand created the noted Art Shack in Bolinas, a live art installation and environment that mirrors his lifestyle and full immersion in surf and skate culture.

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