- Membership Level:
- Associate
- Member Category:
- Artist
- Arts Media:
- Digital Art
- Drawing
- Painting
About Mickey Harmon
Mickey Harmon is a Buffalo, NY based illustrator, community organizer and queer erotica artist. For over 10 years Mickey has been illustrating people's homes and businesses. Ranging in clients from homeowners, realtors, small businesses and large corporations, its Mickey's goal to capture the essence of a property or home.
Architecture is humanity's stamp on existence and its been Mickey's humble goal of illustrating this notion for each and every client.
In 2019, Mickey began a queer erotica career under the moniker, Super Twunk and began celebrating his own community's body positivity through art. Creating paintings and illustrations for queer festivals, events, companies and content creators, it remains Mickey's goal to illustrate the very essence of each individual. He also sells queer designs on Threadless, one of the internet's oldest print to order services for apparel.
Currently, Mickey organizes First Friday Gallery Walk in Buffalo's Queer Bohemia, Allentown. As a co-owner of Pine Apple Company, Mickey activates the neighborhood with events, festivals, street closures and vendors to create a diverse and welcoming urban experience. For over 5 years its been his goal to bring together queer creative communites during and beyond Buffalo Pride Week with his event Intersect, now in its fourth year. He lives nearby with his partner Jordan and thier two cats, Beef + Chicken. ♥︎
Education
Professional Summary
Professional Illustrator with 15+ years of experience illustrating homes, spaces, portraits, erotica and graphics for various clients. With a focus on architecture and home commissions, considering a sense of space and place. Active exhibiting artist in physical and digital exhibitions. Co-owner and curator for a gallery gift shop in Buffalo, NY: Pine Apple Company. Chair of First Friday Gallery Walk, a monthly effort to connect the community and creative classes of WNY. Organization of over 55 gallery walk events and over 100 vendors. Management of social media channels for walks and galleries. Seeking to combine my enthusiasm and experience as a local artist to other galleries and communities through collaboration.
Skills
Acrylic and watercolor painting
Pen and Ink illustration
Muralist
Engaging and patient lecturing abilities
Working large and small scale
Retail applications through third party production facilities for personal work Advertising knowledge and Social Media Marketing skills
Festival and Street Fair organizer
Attention to detail
Education
2011 BFA in Communication Design
SUNY Buffalo State University, Buffalo, NY Thesis exhibition: "A Fiction of Structures"
Exhibitions
2011 "A Fiction of Structures" Karpeles Manuscript Library, Buffalo NY
2013 “The Life and Times of Grovey Cleves” WNYBAC, Buffalo NY
2017 “Send Nudes” Pine Apple Company, Buffalo NY
2022 "Switch: Queer Bazaar Group Show, Organizer + Exhibitor, Buffalo NY
2023 "The Male Erotic" BOX Gallery, Buffalo NY
2023 "Barnwood 4" Camp Kingston, Kingston, NY
2023 "Artist in Residency 4" The C. Stuart and Jane H. Hunt Art Gallery
Mural Work
2017 “Niagara Street" National Grid, Buffalo NY
2019 “Stonewall Nation” 44 Allen Street, Buffalo NY
2022 “City of No Illusions” University At Buffalo CFA, Buffalo NY
Residencies
2023 Artist in Residency, The C. Stuart and Jane H. Hunt Art Gallery
Professional Organizations
Allentown Association, Chair
Tom of Finland Foundation, Member
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