Michele Utley Voigt

I paint stories of the human experience. The soul of life is demonstrated in depictions of figures interacting within a realm of time, realities, and one another. I paint that that is seen and unseen. I depict the beauty that often exists after a tragedy. I express the plane of existence pictorially divided, fragmented, as the energy and emotion around each being and happening.

Often this movement is abstract, and often it is literal. I create images from inside myself. I carry them and grow them within me until I paint. Most of my paintings are of women and their realities as they relate to the greater human experience. Since my early life, I have worked in oils and prefer my expressions to be shared in their radiance applied using master techniques.

The cause for which I create is my acute foresight and sense of the interconnectedness of all elements and time. What is seen and not seen. Known and not known. Contemporaneous, interacting, and incessantly influencing one another in a continuum of the past, present, and future. The entirety exists concurrently.

I render the human relationship with eternity. I convey the human experience; acts, thoughts, sentiments, and situations layered upon all those of the past. Giving ...

The Otis Art Institute of Parsons School of Design, Los Angeles, CA (BFA)1991
Parsons School of Design, Paris, France 1988
California State University, Los Angeles (BA) Pre Law/Political Science 1994
Glendale College, Women's History 1996

Solo | Featured Art Exhibitions, Galleries and Major Art Fairs

2022
Aston Martin, The Gallery, Miami, FL, August 2022 – January 2023, Domestic Situation, Solo Exhibition
Art EXPO New York, New York, NY, April 2022 Invited Special Exhibition

2021
Art EXPO New York, New York, NY, October 2021 Invited Special Exhibition & Lecturer
She is Rising, Carriage Barn Art Center, New Canaan, CT, May 2021 Featured Solo

2020
Artebinaria, Art Inside Gallery, Florence, Italy, 2020 Solo

2019
Red Dot, Miami, FL, December 2019 Invited Artist Solo Feature
Carriage Barns Art Center, New Canaan, CT, June 2019 The Art of Being a Girl, Featured Artist

2018
JanKossen Contemporary, New York, NY, August 2018 Order and Chaos- Solo
Art Lovers, New York, NY, May 2018 Solo with Installation
Art Boca Raton, Boca Raton, FL, March 2018, Solo Featured Artist
Jankossen Contemporary, New York, NY, January 2018, FRESH!
Art Palm Beach, Palm Beach, FL, January 2018, National Invited Artist Solo

2017
Scope, Miami Beach FL, December 2017, Solo Artist
Red Dot, Miami FL, December 2017, Solo Artist
Art Santa Fe, Santa Fe NM, July 2017, National Invited Artist Solo Feature
ARTROOMS, London, U.K., January 2017, Selected Artist, Solo
Art Boca Raton, Boca Raton FL, March...