FEATURED ARTIST:

Michelle Silver

On View in the Gallery: Selections from Between Facing Mirrors

Between Facing Mirrors examines physical and metaphysical space through the lens
of motherhood. After having her second child, Michelle Silver discovers everything
about her is illuminated, as if she stands between facing mirrors, seeing multiplicities
of herself reflected in her children and exposed to the world around her. She uses
studio meditation to create the space she lacks both in bodily autonomy and mental
capacity and creates imagined worlds to bear this weight: mysterious landscapes
that expand and contract as she skews depth, flattens planes, and layers moments in
time. Influenced by the Hudson Highlands, but using only her memory as reference,
Silver applies the paint in broad relational stream-of-conscious strokes, where each
move is determined by the one before. Heavy layers of paint are added, while other
areas are scraped away revealing what’s underneath, a process that documents her
inner dialogue.

Michelle Silver is a Hudson Valley-based painter and the Co-Founder and Gallery
Director of a combined art gallery and tattoo studio called Distortion Society (Beacon,
NY). She is also a freelance branding and web designer and mom to two young boys.

michelle@michelle-silver.com | @michellesilverstudio