Michelle Silver grew up on the edge of the Catskill mountains in New York and spent her early adulthood in a vibrant art community in Boston, where she graduated magna cum laude from Boston University in 2009. She then moved to Brooklyn, where she surrounded herself with inspiration, painted obsessively, had her first solo exhibition, developed her voice in graphic design and joined a band. Desiring a peaceful place to create and raise her family, she moved to a woodsy home on the side of a mountain in the lower Hudson Valley, NY, where she currently works, paints and resides with her husband, two sons and two cats.

My paintings are sensitive depictions of personal struggle and growth: the desire to feel loved and accepted, the plague of self-doubt, the struggle to establish identity and the fear of loss. I use the intimacy and vulnerability from my own lived experiences as a platform to connect larger themes of motherhood, femininity, desire and fear with a personal anecdote or individual moment. I paint rich emotional landscapes that are as vast and as they are lonely; a simultaneous sense of freedom and feeling trapped.

My work is both figurative and abstract, a combination of the literal and the emotive. Each painting is created through a mix of fast, stream-of-conscious mark making, drying and layering, and thoughtful detail work.

For inquiries and to purchase art, email supersecretprojectsny@gmail.com

Michelle Silver’s Exhibitions at Super Secret Projects:

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Between Facing Mirrors: solo exhibition by Michelle Silver

Studio Work: group exhibition

Identity: group exhibition

Perspective: group exhibition

Duality: group exhibition