Michelle Concepción
Offenbach am Main
Puertorican American contemporary painter, known for her experimental, abstract paintings inspired by science and nature.
Message
2021- 2022 Turquoise
When sunlight passes through the atmosphere, the blue wavelengths are scattered more widely by the oxygen and nitrogen molecules, and more blue comes to our eyes. This effect is called Rayleigh scattering, after Lord Rayleigh and confirmed by Albert Einstein in 1911.[21][22]
2017 - 2015 Logical Paintings
Concepción is the arbiter of life-forces as much as she is a painter of color and shape. As she pulls her brush across the surface or scratches at a line, what she is really doing is channeling the vital principle of each shape, line, swish, blotch, and pattern of textured color at the moment when it is most alive. The paintings are testaments or snapshots of the moment of their creation, where the shadows and specters—ghosts—which hover around them are allowed to come into view before passing away.
Goodeve, Thyrza Nichols. “The metaphysical fairyland of michelle concepcion”,
Exhibition Catalogue: Logical paintings. 2017.
2011 - 2010 Fades
It is all about the chemical makeup of an object. The technical term for color fading is photodegradation. There are light absorbing color bodies called chromophores that are present in dyes. The colors we see are based upon these chemical bonds and the amount of light that is absorbed in a particular wavelength.
2010 Movements
Movement - The act of moving; change of place or posture; transference, by any means, from one situation to another; natural or appropriate motion; progress; advancement;
2008 Volver ....
Michelle Concepcion’s “Visual Meditations” From time to time in their careers, artists achieve a breakthrough, when their work takes a quantum leap onto another level entirely. This visual epiphany occurred some eight years ago when Michelle Concepción’s earlier abstractions, teeming with an energized surface of colorful biomorphic forms, took a more meditative direction with a reduced palette of two or three colors. In his review of an exhibition at ArtSpace/Virginia Miller Galleries in Coral Gables (Miami), Florida in 2005, critic José Antonio Evora of El Nuevo Herald described Concepción’s paintings as an “indecipherable enigma,” adding that they are “so enveloping that one is able to be submerged in their bubbles.” Her current abstractions, evocative of cellular forms or ancient asteroids, allow color to reemerge in the soft, dreamy shapes that appear to be floating in a bottomless abyss or deep space, visual meditations that invite the mind to wander among them. These abstractions on canvas create an illusion of surface texture with luminous backgrounds enriched by underpainting. I invite you to wander among Concepción’s visual meditations, the extraordinary visions this highly accomplished artist is sharing with us in her first one-person show at this gallery. Virginia Miller Director ArtSpace/Virginia Miller Galleries
