Artist Projects

Superpalazzo's got its spotlight on photographer Mike McKinnon. Mike grew up a cool 45 minutes southwest of Los Angeles in the sun-drenched suburbs of Lakewood and Long Beach.

Like many kids raised in Hollywood’s backyard, Mike is hypnotized with the creation of images. Watching favorite movies like Punch Drunk Love, Miami Vice and Tropical Maladies, often on a weekly basis (annoying his brothers no end!), sharpened Mike's stunning, waking dream like aesthetic.

Mike sets his scenes up with natural and artificial light, heightening the color and transporting us to magical, unearthly places. His surroundings feel serene, deja vu familiar, supernatural. The liquidity of the light lends an extravagance to a normally ordinary suburban landscape.