Michael Breyette

Website: Michael Breyette Web Site

About the author

“You are on your way to becoming one of the best known artists in your genre.” -Jerry Vile, creator & director of the ‘Dirty Show’ to Michael Breyette, 2009

Michael Breyette is a self taught artist who has been drawing for as long as he can remember. But, it wasn’t until moving from a conservative family and hometown in rural upstate NY that he felt the freedom to express his true self and his true passions in his artwork.

The resulting illustrations of male nudes and gay themed works rendered in soft pastel are what turned his hobby into a career. In 2000 he found a global audience by posting a few of these pieces on the Internet. Three years later he made the decision to quit his secure day job and be a full time self supporting artist.

One of the major rewards of that decision came in 2007 when renowned gay pictorial publishing house Bruno Gmünder of Germany published Summer Moved On, a collection of Michael’s works, followed by calendars in 2008 and 2009. His works also appear in the anthology Stripped and The Greatest Erotic Art of Today Volumes 1 & 2 (for which he won the Viewer’s Choice Award in 2008), as well as numerous magazines including Blue, Manner Aktuel, Unzipped, Gaydar, and [2], for which he earned the distinction of having the magazine’s first ever illustrated cover. His work has also appeared on several book covers.

Michael’s works can be viewed and purchased at his online gallery, www.breyette.com, where in addition to his originals; he offers prints, postcards, and magnets and copies of his books and calendars. He is also represented by leading male figurative gallery, Lyman-Eyer, of Provincetown MA, where he’ll be having a solo exhibit, “The Breathtaking Blue”, July 10th to 22nd, 2009.