I am thrilled to welcome my fellow Corcoran friend Michelle at the gallery this year.
Her work is thoughtful, expressive, layered - and very beautiful!
Her work is thoughtful, expressive, layered - and very beautiful!
About Artist Michelle Firment Reid:
My work and life is immersed in a 'state of becoming.' Exploration and discovery resonates with me.
At its most basic level, my work is inspired by nature, the beauty of color, and the expressive potential of paint. Through the process of layering and manipulating paint, I tap into the constant motion of an interior life, evoking themes of growth, transformation, and eventual stability. My approach is intuitive—I don't plan my paintings or work on them from sketches. I am interested in the emotional and sensual qualities of the materials I use more than I am in their formal qualities. My compositions naturally evolve as I engage with the paint, allowing it to expand, interact, and ultimately coalesce into forms that resonate as a whole.
Throughout my work I employ the gestural expression of thought through asemic writing, a wordless open form of writing allowing the viewer to hover in a state between reflecting on their own interpretation while simultaneously seeing the work. Thoughts can be seen as illusory, fleeting mental constructs that arise from the mind but don’t have inherent existence. Just as clouds pass through the sky, thoughts come and go, shaped by external stimuli, past experiences, and subconscious influences. They don’t have a permanent or fixed nature, yet we often identify with them.
Incorporating asemic art within my work elicits a state of mindfulness and openness during my creative process. All of my best ideas come out of process, out of the work itself.
My work and life is immersed in a 'state of becoming.' Exploration and discovery resonates with me.
At its most basic level, my work is inspired by nature, the beauty of color, and the expressive potential of paint. Through the process of layering and manipulating paint, I tap into the constant motion of an interior life, evoking themes of growth, transformation, and eventual stability. My approach is intuitive—I don't plan my paintings or work on them from sketches. I am interested in the emotional and sensual qualities of the materials I use more than I am in their formal qualities. My compositions naturally evolve as I engage with the paint, allowing it to expand, interact, and ultimately coalesce into forms that resonate as a whole.
Throughout my work I employ the gestural expression of thought through asemic writing, a wordless open form of writing allowing the viewer to hover in a state between reflecting on their own interpretation while simultaneously seeing the work. Thoughts can be seen as illusory, fleeting mental constructs that arise from the mind but don’t have inherent existence. Just as clouds pass through the sky, thoughts come and go, shaped by external stimuli, past experiences, and subconscious influences. They don’t have a permanent or fixed nature, yet we often identify with them.
Incorporating asemic art within my work elicits a state of mindfulness and openness during my creative process. All of my best ideas come out of process, out of the work itself.
