|
Michelle
Chrisman back to
gallery artists
 “Even
as a little girl, I knew I was to
become a painter. Nothing has ever
fascinated me more than the magic of
approaching a canvas with oil paint.
”
I have
gained an academic background that
has given me the freedom to go
beyond technique. I love the visual
beauty of New Mexico and the West,
the desert and the richness and
variety of the 3 cultures. I
consider myself a contemporary
colorist and a New Mexico Modernist,
but most of all, a visual poet. I am
drawn to paint endangered places
such as wilderness, historic
buildings and fading cultural
traditions, in the hope of drawing
public awareness to them, to help to
save & preserve them, by capturing
them on canvas. I also love to paint
“en plein air,” the landscape and
the figure.
Education
Fashion Institute of Technology, New
York City- Associate Degree in
Illustration The School of Visual
Arts, New York City- Bachelor of
Fine Arts Degree in Graphic Design
Art Student’s League of New York &
Denver- Drawing & Oil Painting
Painting
workshops
Ray Vinella & Kevin Macpherson
Landscape Painting- Taos, New
Mexico; 1995
Mark Daily, Advanced Figurative
Painting
Denver Art Student’s League; 2002
Kim English, Advanced Figurative
Painting
Denver Art Student’s League; 2003
Quang Ho, Advanced Painting- Visual
Approaches
Denver Art Student’s League; 2004
Associations
The Denver 10- Founding Member/ Oil
Painting Group
Harwood Arts Center- Artist in
Residence
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Studio #6 “Wildlands Painted!”
Founder- annual fundraiser exhibit
for the New Mexico Wilderness
Alliance Plein Air New Mexico
Exhibitions
“New Mexico Mission Chapels”
December 1997 (To draw public
awareness to the historic Spanish
Chapels of New Mexico)
“Albuquerque Historic Places”
December 1998 (To draw public
awareness to endangered historic
buildings in Albuquerque)
“Wildlands Painted!” October 2003 &
2004 (To draw public awareness to
endangered NM wilderness areas)
“New Mexico Cancer Center Exhibit”-
fundraiser for the New Mexico Cancer
Center (3 month exhibit, Dec. 04-
March 05)
Recent projects:
I have recently finished
paintings of three endangered
New Mexico wilderness
areas with the Denver 10
painting group and guest
artists for the second
annual October 2004
exhibit, “Wildlands
Painted!"
This exhibit
is a fundraiser for the
New Mexico Wilderness
Alliance in their effort
to raise public
awareness and funds to
protect these lands, and
to obtain legislation
for these areas to be
designated and preserved
as “Wilderness.” |
|
“Rosa Rojo”
(Spanish for Red Rose)
Oil on canvas, 9x12 inches
"King Over
Ojito in Last Sun’s Glow"
Oil on canvas
"Desert
Majesty"
Oil on canvas
"Dancing Clouds over Three Kings"
Oil on canvas
“Soft Hills of
Rio Chama Wilderness”
16x20, oil on canvas
“sunset over Rio Puerco Arroyo"
oil on canvas
|
