About
Me

Michelle is a first generation Dominican-descent multidisciplinary artist who specializes in oil painting and also makes work as a filmmaker, photographer and animator. In her works, she document the lives of marginalized people as a means to archive their stories and immortalize them. Through figurative oil painting, She depicts how the marginalized body interacts with its immediate physical environment and their community. By analyzing subtle acts of defiance, submission, community solidarity, and forms of cultural preservation through intersectional frameworks, She aims to highlight overlooked forms of agency that can exist within structures designed to disempower. She combines her passion for painting with social justice, creating work that speaks not only to forgotten histories and systems of inequality, but seeks to imagine something outside of the overwhelming reality of struggle, oppression and pain. 

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