Mike Reesé
Artist in Residence
Mike Reesé is a multidisciplinary artist whose work explores emotion, mythology, and identity through symbolic world-building. Drawing from archetypes, semiotics, and personal mythology, Reesé creates immersive visual languages that span painting, sculpture, and experiential design. His practice merges sculptural abstraction with coded systems of communication, most notably through recurring motifs such as floral forms, masked figures, and “The 26 Tribes of Alphabeasts,” an evolving hieroglyphic alphabet representing emotional states of the human experience. Rooted in both fantasy and lived reality, his works investigate preservation, transformation, and the ways emotion can be translated into symbolic systems of meaning. Reesé is the co-founder of DREAMHAUS LA and currently serves as Art Director for The OPM Company.
