Margaret Michel (masters degree in
Asian Art History from the Ecole du Louvre), is one of four
siblings. Born in New York she traveled extensively as a child to
Africa, Hawaii and Europe. She lived in California for 13 years
where she taught at Ohlone College in the San Francisco Bay area and
presently lives in Vallauris, France. Her development as an
artist comes from apprentiships and jobs assisting working
artists, and over the years has acquired a solid knowledge of metal
skills. With an acute curiosity in the sciences and an indepth
understanding of western and world cultures,
her means of expression is very unique.
She has received numerous
awards and attended many residences in the US and France. She has
exhibited with the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Artists Gallery,
and Rollo Contemporary Art in London as well as presenting a large solo
show of her work at the Musee d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain in Nice
France. She lives with her husband in France and is currently
represented by Gallery Sintitulo in Mougins, the Holly Baxter Cook Gallery
in San Francisco and Rollo Contemporary Art in London.
“Our universe is in movement whether in microscopic transformation or
in the constant expansion of the cosmos. I treat this entity,
movement as a subject, observing it, creating it. With the
objects available to me I mimic certain processes, thought
associations, logical deduction, absurd and chaotic situations as well
as the natural movements of the elements and the unrelenting rhythms of
time.”
Margaret Michel