Michelle is a Brooklyn-based mixed-media artist working with paint, paper, pastel, and clay to build layered, dreamlike compositions. Her process is tactile and intuitive, favoring mark-making, collage, and material play over polish or permanence. These works often resemble fragmented landscapes or memory-scapes, where textures overlap and time feels softened rather than fixed.
At the core of Michelle’s practice is a return to childhood materials and ways of making. Her imagery is driven by themes of nostalgia, curiosity, and self-reconnection, using play as both subject and method. By allowing experimentation to lead, her work becomes a meeting place between her inner child and adult self, where imagination interrupts expectation and discovery replaces performance.
Working in a contemporary moment shaped by productivity culture and emotional fatigue, Michelle’s practice offers a quiet refusal of urgency and perfection. Drawing from traditions of process art and artists who prioritize intuition, materiality, and inner life, she uses mixed media as a space for emotional presence and care. Her work reclaims art-making as a gentle, living practice—one that breathes, grows, and continues to unfold through curiosity rather than demand.
