Stella Michaels

Stella Michaels is a contemporary painter born & raised in New York. She has been described as a channel of the past traveling on a highway to the future; a medium between people & paintings. She acquired her BFA from New York University, where she focused on both the visual & performing arts. Ms. Michaels amplified her visual expression, utilising her proficiency in sound & vision to execute her operatic paintings.
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"Art is a very personal experience. In order to create relevance, we must enhance that tool within us that is capable of creating a timeless, boundless vision, a feel, a sound, a touch that will infuse a reality that already exists with a timeless quality.

​Working from her studio in New York she began to display her work from a mobile pop-up shop, showing & selling on Madison Ave at the Mark & Carlyle hotel, to the Meatpacking district at the Standard hotel. Ms. Michaels found great success with collectors from all over the world. Best known for her blend of abstract, pop-edge sensibility; coupled with a signature rock 'n roll swagger, she traces the boundaries of spontaneity & precision in equal measure. The paintings embody sound & vision; spontaneous cliff notes to choreographed dances that give life to raw ...

Stella Michaels is a contemporary painter born & raised in New York. She has been described as a channel of the past traveling on a highway to the future; a medium between people & paintings. She acquired her BFA from New York University, where she focused on both the visual & performing arts. Ms. Michaels amplified her visual expression, utilising her proficiency in sound & vision to execute her operatic paintings.

"Art is a very personal experience. In order to create relevance, we must enhance the tool within us that is capable of creating a multi-sensory approach of a boundless vision, feel, sound, taste, touch, taste or smell, , to infuse our reality, thereby creating, a timeless quality that lures you in beyond the visual space, &, that is where the experience, truly, continues."

​Working from various studios in New York she began to display her work in a mobile pop-up shop, showcasing & selling on Madison Avenue at the Mark & Carlyle hotels, to the Meatpacking district at the Standard hotel. Ms. Michaels found great success with collectors worldwide. Best known for her blend of abstract, pop-edge sensibility; coupled with a signature rock 'n roll swagger, she traces the boundaries of spontaneity & precision in equal meas...

Current Exhibit 2023 "and the Beat goes on... @ Reckless Masterpiece" On View Now @ 67 Eighth Ave, NEW YORK

​Exhibit "A Pop Collaboration" Revisited On View Oct/Nov 2021 @ 40 Eighth Ave, NYC

​Exhibit "Behind the Mask" March 4, 2020 - May 30, 2020
@ 40 Eighth Ave, NYC

Exhibit "Two Sides of the Coin" March 14, 2017 - April 27, 2017
@ the Highline Loft, 508 West 26th Street, Chelsea, NYC

Exhibit "Turning 17" December 1, 2016 - December 27, 2016
@ the Virtual Tour, Worldwide

Exhibit "7" March 19, 2016 - Apr 23, 2016
@ Abbozzo Gallery; Toronto, Ontario

Exhibit "21 Viewings" July 14, 2015 - Dec 6, 2015
@ 5X1 W21 Street, NYC

​Exhibit "Velvet Revolver" March 2015 - May 2015
Private Collection Viewing, UES, NYC

Exhibit "House of Pop & Soul" June 13th, 2014 - November 30th, 2014
@ SK Gallery; 450 W 14th Street NYC

Exhibit "East meet West; a Rising Sun" November 17, 2013 - May 30, 2014
@ Milk Studios NYC

Exhibit "ArtHamptons", July 2013
@ Art Hamptons, Bridgehampton, NY

Exhibit "Parasols, Pinups, and Pianos", October 2013 - June 2013
@ SK Gallery;
459 W15 Street, NYC

Exhibit "The Road Less Traveled", June 2012 - Sept 2013
@ 88 Tenth Ave, NYC

Exhibit "Cityscape", June 2013 - August 2013,
@ Antiqueria, Tr...