ARTIST STATEMENT
Painting and drawing are inseparable in my work: line and color, abstraction and mystery. I work from imagination and intuition, focused on materiality, and I am most happy when viewers have different experiences with the work, seeing different figures and objects, or different emotional states. My practice includes layering mixed media: acrylic paint, monoprint, collage, encaustic paint, oil stick, and other materials, working primarily on paper, following my ideas and imagination until the materials turn into the painting I imagined.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Michelle Geoga is a writer and artist originally from Chicago, living in Southwest Michigan. Her writing has appeared in Little Patuxent Review, Five on The Fifth, Bridge Eight, Cleaver, Longleaf and elsewhere. Her visual work has been featured in New American Paintings, the Center for Fine Art Photography, Woman Made Gallery, and elsewhere. She has an MFA in Writing and a BFA in Studio Art from the School of the Art Institute in Chicago and was granted a residency at Yaddo.
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