Michelle Neifert

Michelle Neifert was born and raised in Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley. She attended Kutztown University of Pennsylvania’ graduating Magna Cum Laude with a BFA in Printmaking in 1993. She has also continued her education at both The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and Baum School of Art.
At Kutztown, Neifert’s studio primary focus was on strong high contrast large scale work. Always black and white and always representing the human form. Early on, she had a great love of abstract expressionism. After college, having thoroughly exhausted her focus on black and white, she moved toward color, widening her expressive repertoire. Michelle fell in love with the color work of Helen Frankenthaler, Mark Rothko and Claude Monet. Over the ensuing years, her work kept some of its roots in abstract expressionism while turning more towards color field and even impressionism in an effort to express the human condition through color. After 22 years, the abstract expressionist roots still hold a place in her current work. It now hovers between the abstract and a kind of ethereal realism, which speaks differently to each viewer.
Michelle’s work is typically broken into two lines: abstract expressionism and impressionist landscape....

BFA, Printmaking – Kutztown University of Pa, Kutztown, PA, 1993
Figure Drawing: Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA, 1998
Figure Drawing: Baum School of Art, Allentown, PA, 2009

2010:
Small Works, New Arts Program, Kutztown, PA
“Renewal”, Offices of State Representative, Mount Pocono, PA

2011:
“Out of the Blue”, Antonio Salemme Foundation, Allentown, PA
"Seasonal Exhibition," Connexions Gallery, Easton, PA

2012:
“Bridges Outside the Box”, Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA
“Metamorphosis”, Antonio Salemme Foundation, Allentown, PA
"Riverside Festival of the Arts," 3rd Place Fine Arts, Easton, PA
"LAA Group Show," Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA

2013:
“The End of the World”, The Quadrant, Easton, PA
Permanent collection purchase (2), Lehigh Valley Health Network, Allentown, PA
“Emergence”, Antonio Salemme Foundation, Allentown, PA
"Imaginary Lands," Solo Exhibit, Allentown Art Works, Allentown, PA
"Warren County Arts Festival," First Prize Winner, Washington, NJ
"LAA Fall Show", Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA
"Bethlehem Palette Club Fall Show", Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA
"2013 New Members Exhibition", NAWA Gallery, New York, NY
“FUSE Now”, Cigar Factory, Allentown, PA
"Seasonal Exhibition," Connexions Gallery, Easton, PA
TMD Gallery, Allentown, PA
Group Exhibition, Moravian, College, Bethlehem, PA
2014:
"Visions of the Mind", HUB Robeson Gallery, State ...