About

Hard in the Paint is a new collection of paintings and drawings by Mikey Yates that brings together an array of
earnest portraiture and poignant visual memoir. Sampling the people, places, and experiences that have filled
his life, Yates assembles intricate compositions that mimic the mosaic of his multicultural existence as a
Filipino-American child of an itinerant overseas military family. Vivid impressions of setting and character
permeate the work and carry on a fluent conversation vis-à-vis the “the stories places tell about people and
the stories people tell about places (Yates).”
Sketches of …