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Artist Statement -



I am interested in capturing moments often felt more strongly then seen. This idea has taken many forms in painting, drawing, making, and living.
Paintings here include a series of works that strive to articulate a tenuous balance between process and finished artwork. I approach each painting as a dialogue with no preconceived intention. I use a combination of found and invented shapes that reference both geometry and the natural world. I build the compositions in layers, reworking the surface, adding and deleting information. This process continues until I find the moment when the work is resolved, but just barely. I am searching for the place with each painting when the process is still evident, yet there are moments that are unconventionally beautiful.

This idea has lead me to begin a series of smaller works that seek to explore the more narrative quality of abstract painting. I view each work as a fragment or short story, building together into something that is perhaps more.

I am also exploring ideas of noticing space in a series of drawings known as "the space between" These drawings take negative space as their subject matter, and look for deeper interest in the way such shapes converge and overlap.

Artist Exhibitions



2008
* Heart Loot & other small stories, Gallery Infusion, Los
Angeles CA
* 3rd Annual Love Show, Launchpad Gallery, Portland, O

2007
* All Oregon Art Annual, Salem, OR
* Driven to Abstraction, North Bank Artists Gallery, Vancouver WA

2006
* Emerging Artists Exhibition, Caitlin Gabel School, Portland, OR
* Five Emerging Artists, Design Within Reach, Tigard,OR
* Bachelor of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition, The Art Gym, Marylhurst University,Marylhurst OR

2005
* Annual Student Show Marylhurst University, Marylhurst OR
* Group Painting Show, Streff Gallery, Marylhurst University, Marylhurst OR
* 24th Annual Gender Symposium Art Exhibition, Lewis & Clark College, Portland OR

2004
* In and Out (of Love) Campin Coffeehouse, Portland, OR
* Group Show, Tea Chai Te, Portland, OR
* Annual Student Show, Marylhurst University, Marylhurst, OR

2003
* Annual Student Show, Marylhurst University, Marylhurst, OR

2001
* Two Person Exhibit, Black Squirrel Bakery, Manchester Center,VT

1998
* 1st Annual Exhibit, Vermont Academy of Fine Arts, Bennington, VT

1996

* Muestra Colectiva, Casa Pacifica, Mazatlan, Mexico

1995

* Estatica: Directa @ Indericta, Casa Pacifica, Mazatlan, Mexico
* Tlalocan, Casa Pacifica, Mazatlan, Mexico
* Juventud: Arte y Expression, Teatro Angela Peralta, Mazatlan, Mexico



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Artist Publications



http://marylhurst.edu/theartgym/2006bfa.php
"Michelle Daly is interested in the process of making abstract paintings – finding and inventing shapes, making changes in composition, and working toward a point where the work is "resolved, but just barely." Her work is also, in part, a metaphor for how things that may appear to be incongruous can fit together. She writes that she is working toward a concept of beauty that is both elusive and complex, and that she is inclined to find beauty in the "space between things, or the relationship of one color to another." Daly’s paintings are made with a combination of oil and wax medium on canvas. "...

Artist Collections



Michelle Daly's work is featured in private collections in New York, California, Oregon, Vermont and New Hampshire....

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