art delivery : 07.23.22

Woosh! The big, bold, colorful, gestural work of American artist Michelle Weddle is in today’s ‘Society Member’ spotlight… it makes me wanna roll up my sleeves and throw some paint around! Here’s Michelle’s artist statement:

“My recent work is an expression of emotion, movement, and energy, emphasizing a balance of color and form while referencing digital art, landscape, abstract expressionism, and the bauhaus art movement. Each piece is composed of a gestural under-painting, surrounded by thick, textural, blocked planes of color that draw attention to the paintings surface and physicality while contributing to the overall movement and dynamism of the work. In some pieces, the gestural brushstrokes of the under-painting appear as digitally rendered ‘erasure marks,’ carved into the thick upper layers of paint. In the finished work, multiple tensions arise between the spontaneous and the intentional, the gestural and the static, the flat and dimensional, and between digital references and nature or the artist’s hand.”

Beautiful. You can follow Michelle on Instagram at @michelleweddle.

Oh boy, a little over a month to go! I’m very excited (and nervous and thrilled and all the stuff) to be speaking at TEDx Nashville this year! Tickets are officially on sale, and I just saw that they’re having a ‘summer flash sale’. Get 18% off your event tickets right now by using the code SUMMERFLASH at checkout. Hope to see you there!

Have a lovely weekend ~ Danielle