Michele LeMaitre
Nantucket, MA
Michele LeMaitre's 2D Interactive Sculptural Mixed Media represents the surface of bodies of water, with bold colors that change with the movement of your body.
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Michele LeMaitre, (American, b. 1963), a multi disciplinary, award winning artist is known for her groundbreaking process and style of 2D Interactive Sculptural Mixed Media work, which represent chunks of water that have seemingly been scooped out of the Ocean, pools or lakes and splashed onto the walls, in a controlled but fluid form. The bold surface colors change with the movement of the viewer's body.
Michele attended Université Côte d’Azur for Arts and French Language, Mount Ida college for fashion/apparel design, as well as an independent study at UNLV. She is a signature member of the American Society of Marine Artists, (ASMA). Her works earned an inclusion in several national museum exhibitions. She creates works in her studio on Nantucket island, Ma, where she is inspired by the surrounding water.
Statement
Michele invites the viewer to interactively “swim” around the works of art, as if being immersed in water, to experience the changing colors which represent the water's reflective surface and depths. The Water & Human connection: My body of work has fluidity through movement and color, representing the organic form of water. The viewer is invited to interact with the artwork, while observing their visceral, emotional and spiritual thoughts and from there, to take those sensory observations into their daily environmental surroundings, while being in, on, around, under and by the water. As water is a part of our human molecular form, both water and humans have an unspoken bond of communication, which is ever changing and affects each other's rhythmic flow from external and internal sources. Reflective at times, deep or shallow, reactive or calm, flowing or stagnant, soft or hard, all represent both the human and water forms, which shape themselves, depending upon their surroundings of internal and outward circumstances. This body of work, like water, allows the viewer to connect with their inner water source, and dive into their own personal experience.
MUSEUMS EXHIBITIONS
- Arts Worcester, in collaboration with Fitchburg Art Museum, "Monochrome", March 7 - April 13, 2025.
- Attleboro Arts Museum, June 14 - July 12th, 2024
- The American Society of Marine Artists 19th National Exhibition (ASMA); A traveling exhibition hosted by The Albany Institute of History and Art in Albany, NY September 7, 2023 - December 31, 2023 and continued to The Minnesota Marine Art Museum in Winona, MN opening with a private reception on January 19, 2024 - May 12, 2034.
- Attleboro Arts Museum, March 21 - 24, 2024.
- ArtsWorcester in collaboration with the Fitchburg Art Museum, March 14 -April 21, 2024.
PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
A piece titled “A Little Chunk Of Ocean” is now in the Permanent Collection of Chateau Orquevaux, in Orquevaux, France and will be placed in their upcoming museum.
Past Exhibitions:
AAN Federal Gallery, Solo Exhibition, Nantucket, MA. July 26, 2025
AAN Gala, Great Harbor Yacht Club, Nantucket, Ma. July 19, 2025
The Big Gallery, The Thomas Macy Warehouse, AAN, Summer Small Works, June 26 - July 13, 2025.
ArtsWorcester in collaboration with the Fitchburg Museum, Monochrome, March 7 - April 13, 2025
Attleboro Arts Museum, March 21 - 24, 2024.
Cecilia Joyce & Seward Johnson Gallery - People's Choice, October 17 -Novemeber 13, 2023. Nantucket, MA.
The Masterworks Exhibition at The Thomas Macy Warehouse, AAN, August 11 - September 25, 2023
The Other Art Fair, Dallas, Texas May 11-14, 2023
Château Orquevaux - 18 Grande Rue, Orquevaux, France. Open Studio Exhibit Oct 15, 2022
Cecelia Joyce & Seward Johnson Gallery- Artist / Patron Exhibition. August 12- Sept 5, 2022
Henry Michaelis gallery - 1 India Street, Nantucket, Ma. Featured Guest Artist. August 11-31, 2022.
Henry Michaelis gallery - 1 India Street, Nantucket, Ma. Featured Guest Artist. July 29 - August 4, 2022.
The Thomas Macy Warehouse, AAN Modern Epic Gigantic Art Exhibit July 1- August 1, 2022
The Thomas Macy Warehouse, AAN Coastal Impressions Exhibit June 3 -27th, 2022
The gallery at four India street -Invitational Guest Exhibiting Artist. November - December 2021
PUBLISHED
- DoubleACS TV 15, Arts & Entertainment, July 11, 2024
- Reflective Impressions. The 19th National Exhibition of the American Society of Marine Artists, Albany Institute of History & Art -Minnesota Marine Art Museum, September, 2023
- House & Garden Magazine, a Condé Nast publication. June 2023 'The Art Edit', image #44
- DayBreak Nantucket, May 15, 2023 "LeMaitre's Oceanic depth & beauty"
- The American Society of Marine Artists. Fall issue, November, 2022
- The Haute Life, August, Nantucket Artisans Feature, August, 2022
- Compass Realty Newsletter, Nantucket Artists Feature, August 2022
- “The Unstoppable artist” book, by Barbara L. McCulloch. Contributing Artist. July, 2022
- Nantucket Current, “Nantucket’s most unlikely Art gallery”. June 2022
- Authority Magazine 2021
- Medium.com 2021
- iTunes, Google podcast and Spotify; Be The Real You Magazine by Sharri Harmel, 2021 “The business of Art & Life.”
Inland Ocean Ambassador 2022 - present day