Michelle Statella

Michelle is an artist living and working in Pennsylvania. Her work explores places both far and close to home she has visited or knows well and revisits in dreams.
Much of her work is concerned with the forces of time and history upon an ever-evolving landscape. She is interested in how a landscape becomes a social and geographical phenomenon in its ability to portray impressions of past civilizations and how our contemporary routines and travels are an integral part of shaping topography. Tactile layers of color and wax in the works give an illusion of time and space, but more importantly the collected experiences of those places; words and images are hidden between stratums of paint and wax.

M.A. Studio Art, NYU. New York, NY and Venice, Italy.