Artist Statement 2025

My paintings are visual meditations on life’s cycles, transformation, and the unseen forces that shape our existence. For me, nature is a sacred text—its patterns and rhythms are symbolic, intuitive, and deeply connected to consciousness. Through art, I enter a space of heightened awareness, where spiritual essence reveals itself through form, color, and texture.

I create psychological landscapes where the boundaries between self and environment dissolve. Figures emerge organically from their surroundings; flowers and plants shift into sentient beings. These hybrid forms reflect my belief that all matter—animal, vegetable, mineral—holds spiritual energy. My work explores this liminal space where human and nature, body and myth, consciousness and cosmos converge.

Rooted in my lived experience as a New York City artist and shaped by a near-death experience in 2020, my work has evolved into a healing, visionary practice. A resulting brain injury heightened my intuitive sensitivity and gave rise to synesthesia—allowing me to perceive color and form in response to sound. Since then, painting has become a ritual of channeling: each piece begins with intention and is infused with herbs, symbols, and energetic practices drawn from alternative spirituality, Eastern thought, and Hermetic traditions.

I’ve developed a visual language of energy and vibration. I draw inspiration from artists like Hilma af Klint, Dorothea Tanning, and Agnes Pelton—women who translated inner vision into luminous, transcendent imagery. My process blends oil, watercolor, and pastel with experimental techniques—pouring, dripping, and layering pigment in meditative cycles. I allow paint to move freely across the surface, watching as shapes reveal themselves through negative space, veils of color, and intuitive mark-making. It’s a form of visual scrying—where subconscious and channeled imagery coalesce into mythic narratives.

The figures in my work often embody feminine archetypes—the Lover, the Sage, the Creator, the Rebel—reimagined through a feminist lens. These mythological presences act as portals to a personal cosmology, where inner and outer realities reflect, fragment, and fuse. The boundaries between body and environment are transmuted, transcended, and unified. The body is experienced as a site of transformation—emerging, unfolding, dissolving, healing, vibrating, and evolving into something new.

As a neurodivergent artist, I experience the world as layered, nonlinear, and overlapping. I use fragmented imagery and dreamlike compositions to mirror this internal processing, collapsing time, place, and identity into fluid, surreal tableaux. My work doesn’t aim to depict reality, but to give form to what is felt, intuited, and unseen. Every painting holds a vibration, energetically charged with the memory of its creation. Its sentience is palpable, and it remains open to possibility. I invite the viewer into these painted portals of transformation, where spirit, story, and sensation merge abstraction and representation into surreal worlds illuminated by kaleidoscopic color fields.

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*Condensed for brevity—full version available on request

EDUCATION

MFA, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Painting – Honors | 2003–2005

BFA, College for Creative Studies, Visual Communication – Honors | 1998–2001

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2018

• Blacklist, New York, NY – Michelle Hinebrook

2017

• Hallway Gallery, Seattle, WA – Inner Light

2014

• LTS Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

• Edelman Gallery, New York, NY – Off the Grid

• 101 Exhibit Gallery, Miami, FL

• Hallway Gallery, Seattle, WA – Inner Light

• Pew Foundation for the Arts / Project 4 Gallery, Washington, DC – Art + Space

2010

• David Klein Gallery, Birmingham, MI – Gesture and Geometry

• Maryland Center for the Arts, Annapolis, MD – Color and Form

2009

• Foley Gallery, New York, NY – Enveloped

• Helene Nyborg Contemporary, Denmark – Subtle Bodies

• Center Gallery, CCS, Detroit, MI – Lucid

2003

• One Line Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI – Michelle Hinebrook

• ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL – New Paintings

2004

• Pfizer Corporation, Ann Arbor, MI – Refigured

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024

• FORMah Gallery, NY – Divine Feminine, curated by Marina Granger

2021–2015

• XO Projects, Brooklyn, NY – The 12 (2021), Factory Made (2019)

• Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY – Faculty Exhibition (2018)

• 101 Exhibit Gallery, Los Angeles, CA – Koi No Yokan II, curated by Collette Robbins (2016)

• Ground Floor Gallery, Brooklyn, NY – Gowanus (2015)

• Hewitt Gallery, NY – Self Similarity in Math, Nature, and Art

• Helene Nyborg Contemporary, Copenhagen, Denmark – Art Copenhagen

• Center Galleries, CCS, Detroit, MI – Director’s Choice

2010–2005

• Gallery Project, Ann Arbor, MI – WARP (2010)

• Civilian Art Projects, DC – Spaces Between Spaces (2009)

• Islip Art Museum, NY – I Dream of Genomes (2008)

• Marlborough Gallery, NY – Summer Show (2007)

• Pratt Manhattan Gallery, NY – The Optical Edge, curated by Robert Morgan (2006)

• McKenzie Fine Art, NY – World Without End

• Cranbrook Museum of Art – Graduate Selections, Summer Group Exhibition, Made Here (2005)

• Artists Space, NY – 1,000 Drawings

2004–2001

• Museum of New Art, DaimlerChrysler, Wayne State, Art Space Gallery, Pete & Susan Barrett Gallery, Ann Arbor Art Center, CPOP Gallery, Detroit Artists Market, Scarab Club, College for Creative Studies, and others.

SELECTED RESIDENCIES

2006–Present Artist-in-Residence, XO Projects, Brooklyn, NY

2019–2023 Artist-in-Residence, Snowfarm – The Center for New England Crafts

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2009–2024 Adjunct Associate Professor, Graduate Communication Design, Pratt Institute, NY

2022–2024 Director & Instructor, Artful Edge Academy, Brooklyn, NY

2017–2024 Visiting Instructor, Urban Glass, Brooklyn, NY

2024 Teaching Artist, Young Audiences New York

2008–2010 Art Educator, Nurture Art, Joan Mitchell Foundation, Marquis Studios, NYC

2006–2009 Art Instructor, Studio in a School, Young Audiences, NYC

2005–2004 Graduate Teaching Assistant, Cranbrook Academy of Art, MI

2004–2005 Instructor, Cranbrook Summer Art Institute, MI

2002–2004 Instructor, Lloyd Scholars Program, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

2000–2002 Adjunct Instructor, CCS, Detroit – Design, Illustration, Digital Media

LEADERSHIP & ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE

2009–2014 Assistant Chair, Graduate Communication Design, Pratt Institute, NY

2010–2014 Director, Graduate Design Gallery, Pratt Institute

2011–2014 Gallery Program Coordinator, Graduate Design, Pratt

1998–1999 Conservation & Museum Services Assistant, Detroit, MI

1999 Art Restoration & Conservation Assistant, Detroit, MI

VISITING ARTIST & LECTURE

• College for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI

• Bowling Green State University, OH

• Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA

• Western Carolina University, NC

• CAA + Artisin LLC, Newark, NJ

AWARDS & GRANTS

2021 CERF+ Artist Grant

2019 Tech Seed Research Grant, Pratt Institute

2008 NYC Parks Grant, Studio in the Park

2006–Present XO Projects Residency, Brooklyn, NY

2024

• Create! Magazine – “The Feminine Divine” by Ekaterina Popova (July)

• ArtMaze Magazine – Issue 27, curated by Hesse Flatow (June)

2008–2001

• New York Times – Benjamin Genocchio

• East Hampton Star – Jennifer Landes

• GenArt Pulse, Apartment Therapy, NY Arts Magazine, Step Magazine, Metrotimes, Detroit Free Press, Communication Arts, Computer Arts, and more.