Artist
Michelle Jezierski is a German-American painter born and based in Berlin. Her work sits at the intersection of abstraction and landscape, built from luminous color fields disrupted by geometric interferences. Raised in a family of professional classical musicians, she initially considered a path in music herself before turning to visual art at seventeen; she went on to study under sculptor Tony Cragg at the Berlin University of the Arts, followed by a scholarship at Cooper Union in New York where she studied with Amy Sillman, before completing her studies with Valérie Favre. That musical upbringing still surfaces in her visual approach. She describes the geometric structures in her work as providing rhythm and structure in the same way a beat does in music. Working primarily in oil and mixed media on canvas, she constructs compositions that feel both architectural and atmospheric. Light seems to pass through cut planes of color rather than sit on the canvas. More recently, she has extended this visual language into ceramics, carrying the same interplay of fragmentation and light into three-dimensional form.
