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Maggie Michael
In ambitious canvases, Maggie Michael combines enveloping veils of paint and accumulations of materials like soil and ground metal to high visual and emotional impact. During the making of her work, the artist relates her imagery to places that have inspired her, as well events that influence the times in which we live. Washington, dc, Michael’s home since 2000, has informed her painting through the political and activist events and figures ever present in the city. Michael’s process-based strategies for making work, which include pouring paint, imprinting paint through stencils, and transferring passages of acrylic torn from earlier paintings, connect her to earlier Washington-based abstract artists who experimented with the possibilities of newly invented artists’ acrylics in the mid-20th century. |