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About Michelle
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| This former New Yorker feels only slightly guilty for having once said, " What's up with San Francisco? - It seems to be always in touch with its inner child or something" about her now-beloved bay area. Michelle Boenig Avery, is a product of not only one but two art school educations, of which she emerged victoriously holding three degrees and a healthy relationship with Sallie Mae loan servicing. Michelle spends much of her days shaping the minds of bay area youth, " yes little lumps of clay, come and be shaped". The rest of her time she can be found creating paintings, drawings, photography, and design. She also created these things called the Growlies ™, some sick form of crafty sewing that you too an own a piece. |
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About The Art
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My paintings are the product of my visual investigations of American pop culture. My work attempts to mediate figurative and abstract elements for the purpose of eliciting responses ranging from humor to despondency. I mix these elements in an attempt to equalize the subjects, thus creating a non-hierarchical context. Work straddles the line that exists in the vast arena between the painting process and picture making.
I set the stage with figurative elements that are rooted in American myth, and alter their context by combining them with images appropriated from abstract painting. The resulting ambiguity is intentional and is meant to allow for a range of associations from specific art historical references, to more vernacular responses. |
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