Review
Leonid Homyakov

Michael is a very impulsive person: when he is at work, he is completely enraptured. He can just get up in the middle of the night and go on straight to his brushes and canvas.
Mostly, his works are fantasies, although they are brought to life not by sheer imagination, but also from personal experiences and dreams. The Dreams of Murphenko - this could be a good material for a Freud follower. Yet Michael doesn't just paint his visions, he transmits his own perception of the seen, of what he experienced in a dream. The impressive absurdity of some of his compositions does not repel, on the contrary, it attracts the eye, and inspires to the most unusual associations. In his graphic works, Michael stays just as mysterious.
With Goya's expression, chimeras and philosophical depth: the artist puts forward questions, but leaves them without answers… and that is on purpose - he doesn't want to be read like an open book. 

[ArtLine Magazine, Kyiv, #1, 1999]