In celebration of spring renowned artist,
Michelle O'Michael
, creates a blossom of works for Houston’s budding urban environment. The spring cycle is one of the most enjoyable seasons for Houstonites. Using high-luster, jewel-like colors, she meticulously crafts steel in organic shapes, joining industry and nature. Creating beautiful reflections of life’s fleeting moments, she enhances our journey through the cycle of life. Spring comes with joy, here, now and especially at Darke Gallery during O’Michael’s Exhibition.
O’Michael’s artistic aesthetic springs from flat west Texas, a land punctuated with cacti, steel-rig trees and pump jacks. Her sculpture continues this vision of iron and steel.
O’Michael’s art began at a young age, with her painter-father starting her in painting lessons. His father was a blacksmith in the coalfields of Pennsylvania. These divergent backgrounds came together in her steel work. With an undergraduate degree from the University of Texas at Austin, her work is in many private and corporate collections, including public art pieces for Baylor Medical and El Centro College, Bailey’s Prime in Dallas, Fire Station 6 and the Texas Sculpture Garden in Frisco, TX, three Embassey Suites in Murfreesboro, TN, Rogers, AR and Norman, OK, Andrew Lanes and Hall Wineries in Napa Valley, CA and Blue Cross Blue Shield in Dallas, TX.
Her work balances content, technical expertise and beauty. It is an exploration of the interaction of mass, structure, space, surface shadow and volume through quality of line in 360 degrees. Her expression is through the interaction of planes, with content stated in material and form with the objective of providing beauty and joy to the viewer.
