Michelle O’Connell

Michelle O'Connell is a multidisciplinary artist who works in painting and video installation. She has exhibited in multiple solo and group exhibitions in the United States and in Hangzhou and Guilin, China, where she lived from 2007 to 2011. Michelle has worked on collaborations with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, the Liz Lehman Dance Exchange, and the Lyric Opera House in Baltimore, Maryland. She attended the Chinese Art and Language certificate program at the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou, China, and earned her BFA degree from the Maryland Institute College of Art. She recently graduated with her MFA from Hunter College in New York City. Read Less

Paintings by Michelle O'Connell tell the tale of East meets West through her use of texture, abstracted natural forms, and intuitive mark-making. Her large-scale semi-abstract canvases not only show her influence of Chinese painting and calligraphy, but also portray the spirit of the karst mountain landscape of Guilin, China where she lived for many years, an homage to the place where she called home for a very meaningful part of her life. Read Less