Personal mythologies – Michael Liebhaber

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Personal mythologies

These works explore the stories we inherit and create. They invite viewers to consider how identity is shaped by lived experience, memory, and imagination, and how our understanding of ourselves continues to evolve.

Woman in a sunlit room

Bar scene at Cavillo's restaurant in Alamosa Colorado. IBar scene at Cavillo's restaurant in Alamosa Colorado. I Interior bar scene in warm brown and yellow tones with structured perspective, presented as a quiet, thought-provoking figurative painting about social space.

A figure with a strong gaze seated amid red-orange tone, green s and blue tones and symbols from antiquity, yet it feels slightly off.

Anne Frank. Figurative painting of a young female subject in brown and gray tones with soft modeling and classical composition, forming a symbolic and thought-provoking statement piece.

An abstract figure in red in the foreground with two others in the distance, on a white-gold background with a sun, forming a conceptual view of identity and once relationship with others.

Three abstract figures in blue and white tones, forming a conceptual and thought-provoking painting about self-reflection and identity.

Eve. Central female figure in peach and black tones within a vertical composition, forming a symbolic and surreal statement piece about creation and identity. • SEO title: Birth of Eve – Surreal Symbolic Statement Painting

Annie Oakley. Stylized female portrait in beige and blue tones with simplified features and flat color areas, creating a subtle sense of unease and misalignment in a thought-provoking figurative painting.

Bold composition in orange, blue, and black tones with strong directional movement, forming an energetic and expressive conceptual painting of a surfer on a wave.

Bright composition of three happy children on a beach, running towards the ocean with a stylized sun in the sky in yellow white, and blue tones.

Conceptual painting of abstract human figures standing in a golden field beneath distant mountains and a blue sky, with a symbolic floating form above.

Two figures, a woman kneeling over a dead man, in orange and blue tones, reminiscent of Mary and Jesus.

Simplified swirling, thorny figure in blue and black tones set against a minimal background, forming a psychological and emotional painting about anxiety, fear, and uncertainty.

A gold-colored maze on a purple ground with small figures maneuvering rainbow-colored balls through the maze, presented to provoke thought about how one’s path through life is structured, but unknown and the challenges one has navigating the maze of life.