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Renee Michele
Category: Artist/Individual
Discipline: Visual arts
Program Affiliations: Open Studio Tours Artist | Open Studios Tour 2023
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Free form approach to painting without direct forethought. I was exploring mark making, drawing with paint and veiling layers of color. I work on canvases in tandem, one that is purely exploratory in nature and the other with a well defined subject and an objective to accomplish.
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This is a combination of painting, drawing, and sewing. In 2020-2021 there was a very obvious planetary alignment happening in the night sky. It went on for months! In this piece I loosely referred to this occurrence in a state of reflection in the daytime sky on top and the night time sky on the bottom. I am also always trying to develop color and so worked to enrich the acrylics with multiple layers.
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