{"id":17023,"date":"2019-10-31T16:56:32","date_gmt":"2019-10-31T20:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=17023"},"modified":"2020-10-16T12:29:43","modified_gmt":"2020-10-16T16:29:43","slug":"ten-most-michael-waterman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/ten-most-michael-waterman\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten Most: Michael Waterman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; width: 100%; height: 450px;\" src=\"\/\/e.issuu.com\/embed.html?backgroundColor=%23d2d2d2&amp;backgroundColorFullscreen=%23d2d2d2&amp;d=nov19_flipbook_final&amp;hideIssuuLogo=true&amp;pageNumber=38&amp;u=portlandmagazine\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">November 2019<\/p>\n<h1 class=\"p3\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">2.\u00a0<span class=\"s1\"><b>Dreamscaper<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n<h4 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Painting our city\u2019s soul.<\/span><\/h4>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em>By Colin W. Sargent<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-16868\" src=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/nov19_10Most-_2-Michael-239x300.jpg\" alt=\"nov19_10Most _2 Michael\" width=\"239\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/nov19_10Most-_2-Michael-239x300.jpg 239w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/nov19_10Most-_2-Michael-200x251.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/nov19_10Most-_2-Michael-279x350.jpg 279w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/nov19_10Most-_2-Michael.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 239px) 100vw, 239px\" \/>I<\/span><span class=\"s1\">f you\u2019re looking for the essential Portland artist, one who walks the walk like the artists in\u00a0<i>La Boh\u00e8me<\/i>,<br \/>\n<strong>Michael Waterman<\/strong>\u00a0is that guy. He\u2019s an urban legend. He paints this city like it\u2019s his personal mythology. When\u00a0<strong>Natalie Merchant<\/strong>, the Grammy-winning singer\/composer (\u201cCarnival,\u201d \u201cWonder,\u201d and lead singer for 10,000 Maniacs) was rehearsing in Maine, she fell in love with his work. She\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s2\">snapped up his\u00a0<em>Woman With a Fish<\/em>\u00a0for $2,400 from the legendary Aucocisco Gallery. Then another. She, like all of us, was hooked. She wanted to meet Michael Waterman. Yeah, right. Waterman said no to the meeting. Why give up valuable painting time? He\u2019s a painter, not a public relations dude. Just try and get an audience. Well, okay.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><em><strong><span class=\"s1\">Where is your studio right now?<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><\/em><span class=\"s1\">I paint in my apartment on the third floor of Forest Avenue and Congress Street. It\u2019s [barely] across the street from where I used to paint at the top of the\u00a0<strong>Schwartz Building.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><em><strong><span class=\"s1\">What can you see from your windows?<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><\/em><span class=\"s1\">I see the\u00a0<strong>Portland Museum of Art<\/strong>\u00a0facade and some rooftops.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><em><strong><span class=\"s1\">Has this new view worked its way into one of your paintings?<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><\/em><span class=\"s1\">No. Not yet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><em><strong><span class=\"s1\">Does Natalie Merchant still keep up with you?<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><\/em><span class=\"s1\">I don\u2019t know, but my gallery director\u00a0<strong>Tom O\u2019Donovan<\/strong>\u00a0says she\u2019s bought a few more things.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><em><strong><span class=\"s1\">So she\u2019s still keeping up with you!<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><\/em><span class=\"s1\">Tom and I have an agreement. He doesn\u2019t have to tell me what\u2019s going on at the gallery, and I don\u2019t have to tell him what I\u2019m doing in the studio.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><em><strong><span class=\"s1\">What are you doing in your studio?<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><\/em><span class=\"s1\">I\u2019m painting 90 percent terrible and 10 percent acceptable.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><em><strong><span class=\"s1\">Tell me about the terrible.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><\/em><span class=\"s1\">The terrible look great in my head. But they don\u2019t make it to my hand.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><em><strong><span class=\"s1\">How old are you? I\u2019m 65.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><\/em><span class=\"s1\">I\u2019m 32.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November 2019 2.\u00a0Dreamscaper Painting our city\u2019s soul. By Colin W. Sargent If you\u2019re looking for the essential Portland artist, one who walks the walk like the artists in\u00a0La Boh\u00e8me, Michael Waterman\u00a0is that guy. He\u2019s an urban legend. He paints this city like it\u2019s his personal mythology. When\u00a0Natalie Merchant, the Grammy-winning singer\/composer (\u201cCarnival,\u201d \u201cWonder,\u201d and lead [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19524,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[529,530],"class_list":["post-17023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-extras","tag-michael-waterman","tag-painter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17023"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17024,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17023\/revisions\/17024"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}