BIOGRAPHICAL TIMELINE

1946

Birth of Michael Allen Malpass on August 18, in Yonkers, NY.

1959

Awarded art medal at St. Peter & Paul Elementary School in Mt. Vernon, NY.

1963

17 year-old Michael Malpass' wall mural dedicated to President Kennedy.

At 17, paints mural commemorating death of President John F. Kennedy on his bedroom wall in the family apartment in Bronxville, NY.

1964

Michael and Cathleen Anne O'Donnell meet.

First exhibit of paintings.

Awarded football's Best Defensive Player trophy as a high school senior.

Graduates Archbishop Stepinac High School in White Plains, NY.

Begins at College of St. Thomas in St. Paul, MN on a football scholarship.

While in high school, Michael Malpass organized his own exhibit of paintings outside a store in Bronxville, NY.

1965

Leaves college and returns home in January.

Enrolls at Pratt Institue, Brooklyn NY, in September.

1966

Begins studying alongside sculptor/professor John Pai, who introduces Michael to welding.

1969

Earns BFA from Pratt Institute; begins working on MFA as technician in Pratt welding shop.

Michael and Cathleen marry in September.

1970

Michael Malpass did his job in the US Army, but always considered himself an artist.

Drafted into US Army in July, stationed in Berlin in December.

1971

Cathleen joins Michael in Berlin in February.

Birth of son, Michael, in June.

1972

Michael Malpass working with a student while teaching at Pratt Institute.

Returns to Pratt Institute to complete MFA.

Appointed Instructor of Sculpture, Welding, and Forge.

Family moves to Pratt faculty housing.

Michael starts making jewelry and prints.

1973

Earns MFA from Pratt Institute.

Cathleen begins promoting Michael's artwork.

1975

Birth of son, Patrick.

Michael makes first sphere.

1977

First one-person show at the Betty Parsons Gallery.

1979

Birth of daughter, Emily.

Chicken man appears on cover of ARTnews magazine featuring Betty Parsons.

Family moves to shore house in Bricktown, NJ.

Michael continues teaching at Pratt, commuting home on weekends.

Early 80s

Created a majority of collages and illustrations during this time.

1984

Birth of son, Timothy.

Michael develops Kienboch's Disease (losing 70% of movements in his right wrist); unable to forge, he purchases bandsaw to slice bronze, marking the beginning of the bronze spheres.

Michael Malpass at work, 1986. The bandsaw in background was used for slicing soft-metal (brass, copper, bronze) pieces.

1987

Michael leaves Pratt to live with family in NJ, becoming a house sculptor.

Late 80s

In the late 1980s, Michael Malpass had so many commissions that he had to work on several sculptiures simultaneously.

Productive period with simultaneous commissions, gallery shows, exhibits, and museum interest.

1991

Death of Michael Allen Malpass at age 44 on February 13 at Brooklyn College.