STATEMENT

michelle stone-------shadows and substance

 

Human-like forms flex their adaptability to find a habitat .

Thick, dense, textured facades, layered with acrylic paint, and mixed up mediums

Become a metaphor that alludes to dimensions of complexity inherent in people.

Reliefs, paintings, drawings , sculptures, and installations.

Species of creatures relate to each other appearing

as clumps of debris , vestiges of people, animals or hybrid fragments.

They reflect various contextual relationships, solo, connected

In nature, integration continues

Garden detritus, heads, creatures, couples, shadows

Surviving alone, clustered in groups, and battling duos

Climbing walls, laying on floors,

hanging, merging, escaping, melting ,crawling

struggling under impasto, plastic, surface skin

Transforming space- Space transforming them

Emerging as vulnerable figures discussing our human condition.

 

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Michelle Stone

847-507-6357
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michellestoneart.com

Selected Exhibitions
2010	Celebrate Chicago office treasurer ChicagoIllinois
	Anderson Art Center, Kenosha, Wisconsin
	"Caffiene," Murphy Hill Gallery,Chicago
	3d12 sculptor group, Birmingham Art Center, Bloomfield Hills Michigan
	"Pathways and Portals: Art, Nature and Science," Lockport Gallery, Illinois State Museum, Lockport, Illinois.
	"New Noyes," Noyes Cultural Center, Evanston, Illinois
	"Pathways and Portals," Illinois State Museum Gallery, Chicago Illinois
	"Transformations," 3d12 sculptor group, Aurora Public Art Commission, Aurora, Illinois
	"Reality and Beyond," Bloomingdale Park District Museum, Bloomingdale, Illinois
2009	Annual Collaboration, ARC Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
	Viridian Artists Gallery, CD Slide presentation, jurors choice, Elizabeth Sussman, juror New York, New York
	"NOW,” 3d12 group, South Haven Art Center, South Haven, Michigan
	"Lincoln Lives," Office of Maria Pappas, Treasurer, Chicago, Illinois
	"Spiezer Collection," Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, Illinois
	"Lincoln Portraits," Cliff Dwellers, Chicago, Illinois
2008	August House Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
	Old Town Triangle Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
	"Attainable Art," Peter Jones Gallery, Chicago , Illinois
	"Sculpted Paintings," 3 person, The Art Center, Highland Park, Illinois /th>
	"Caffeine," Peter Jones Gallery, Chicago , Illinois
	"Chicago Society of Artists," North Central College, Chicago , Illinois
	Upstream Online Portraits, merit award
2007	"Dialogue27," Noyes Cultural Center, Evanston, Illinois
	"Caffeine," Peter Jones Gallery, Chicago , Illinois
2006	"Above the Noyes," Noyes Cultural Center, Evanston Illinois
2004	"Florence Biennale," Florence, Italy
2001	"Suite Home Chicago," sponsored by Joel Oppenheimer Inc., Chicago, Illinois
2001 - 1997	Celebrity Chair Auction," Chicago , Illinois
2000	"Adam and Eve," Mars Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
* 1999	Di Falco Gallery, one person, Chicago , Illinois
* 1998	"Stuart Court Installation," one person, De Paul University, Chicago, Illinois
	"Di Falco Gallery," one person, Chicago, Illinois
1996	"Family of Artists," King College, Chicago, Illinois
1995	"Sacred and Profane," Art Center, Highland Park, Illinois
	"Sacred and Profane," Joliet Art Center, Joliet, Illinois
1994	"Family of Artists," King College, Chicago, Illinois
1993	S.A.I.C., Miniature Art, Chicago, Illinois
1991	One Person, Daley College, Chicago, Illinois
1990	"Stuart Court Installation," De Paul University, Chicago, Illinois
* 1990	University Illinois Medical Center Gallery, one person, Chicago, Illinois
* 1989	"People," one person, Struve Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
	Space 900, one person, Franklin Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
1989	"Nature Bench," Public Art Commission, Navy Pier, Chicago, Illinois
1988	North Lakeside Cultural Center &S.A.I.C group show, Chicago, Illinois
	L’Aire Du Verseau,Gallery, two person show, Paris France
1987	L’Aire Du Verseau,Gallery, group show, Paris France
	"Art-A-Go_Go," Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, Illinois
	"15th ULCCompetion and Exibition," Union League, Chicago, Illinois
	Group show, Artemisia Gallery Chicago, Illinois
	"Transform Wabash Building," Group Installation Chicago, Illinois
1986	"Contemporary Works on Paper," Struve Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
	Sculpture and relief one person Struve Gallery,Chicago Illinois
	"Fetish Art," Rockford Museum, Rockford Illinois
	Chicago International Art Exposition, Frumkin Struve Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
1985	New Gallery Artists, Frumkin Struve Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
	"Figure, Form, Function," Frumkin Struve Gallery
	Contemporary Works on Paper, Struve Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
	"The Shadow" group show, Name Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
* 1985	One person, Nancy Lurie Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
* 1983	"They Cannot Rest Anymore," one person, Nancy Lurie Gallery
* 1982	"Figures Around" one person, Nancy Lurie, Chicago Illinois
1982	Group show, Nancy Lurie Gallery
* 1982	"A Day at the Beach," one person, Artemisia, Gallery Chicago
	Outdoor Couple, one person, Northern Illinois University,DeKalb, Illinois
1981	Group show, Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

 

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